"Administrator" permissions required to view polls?

For reference I am using version 4.9.3.

I have searched and found questions from people saying they ONLY want admin access… which makes me think there’s something going on here since I can only use it with admin access and actually need to loosen my restrictions to allow lower users.

Thanks!

I should also note that I DID in fact try this step as well:

“The file you need to edit is yop-poll/inc/admin.php. Once you open the file, do a search for function current_user_can. In that function you can find the options you need to edit.”

and in fact changed ALL permissions in that function to “true” — but to no avail.

YOP Poll still invisible in the left menu. And if I go to the URL manually it says, “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.” The ONLY user I can access it with on the back end is the Administrator.

Your help is much needed and greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Welp, sorry for all the posts, but I did finally work through it. The issue was I had created a custom role (Webmaster), which has permissions & capabilities somewhere between an Editor and an Admin. And it appears permissions in YOP Poll are hard-coded with the actual exact NAME of the roles (i.e. Administrator, Editor, Contributor, etc) and not just permission names, capability names or levels.

That meant even though my user role technically had a “high enough” level of permissions, YOP Poll needed to be hard-coded to reflect my specific new user role NAME. So, in case this helps anyone in the future…

The file you need to edit is plugins/yop-poll/inc/admin.php. Once you open the file, do a search for “function current_user_can” (minus quotes). THEN, do a find/replace in that section. Replace every instance of

‘administrator’ => true,

with

‘administrator’ => true, ‘webmaster’ => true,

(where ‘webmaster’ is the exact name of the role you created).

Anyway, thanks, Me!

You’re welcome! Glad I could help me work it out!