Restricting Roles To Create/Edit Events in Selected Categories

[Jason]

I’ve found a few articles on using various plugins to create additional WordPress user roles, and giving those roles access to certain functions in WP, but my need extends to some data filtering within TheEventsCalendar (PRO) plugin.

We would like to specify that a user role can create or edit Events but can only select from a sub-set of defined Categories (and not create/edit additional Categories). The usage is that our outreach department would like to give WP access to a number of partner organizations so they can login and create events on the calendar for the community to see, but we don’t want them to be able to edit/delete events we’ve created for other purposes, and we’d like to limit the categories they can select for the Events they create.

Is such a thing possible with TheEventsCalendarPRO, in conjunction with a plugin like Members or User Role Editor?

[Brendan]

I Brett,

Thanks for the email. Out of the box with our plugin and other plugins like user role, its not possible without custom developing something. There are plugins that offer limitations on what the author can post on so you may want to look up and test some of those plugins. Unfortunately I cannot recommend one since we cannot support it and its unchartered territory. But if you find one that works, please let us know so we can let other users know if this question comes up again.

Thanks,

Brendan

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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