BUG: Members Plug-in User Roles and Unable to Edit Tags When Creating New Event

  • Resolved dannemas

    (@dannemas)


    6 years, 1 month ago

    At the suggestion of this page: https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/admin-roles-and-permissions/ I’m using the Members plug-in to create Role permissions for the various user roles. In modifying the Author role I found that when it attempts to create a new Event it cannot add Tags in the tag box on the right. Though, with the Taxonomies > Manage Categories permission set to Grant in the Members > Roles permission modifier window the Author role can add Tags through the WordPress sidebar on the left, but yet cannot add Tags when creating a New Event in the tag box.

    An additional issue is that when Manage Categories is set to Grant, it also allows the Author to create new Categories. My ideal would be that there would be separate features for this, so that a Role could only use pre-created Categories and also create new Tags, though I believe that’s an issue for the Members plug-in rather than The Events Calendar.

    However, I do think there is a bug within The Events Calendar that leads to the first issue I describe in the first paragraph. Unless I am missing an additional permission option, it seems The Events Calendar does not allow an authorized role to create new Tags even when they should have the permissions to do so. Any thoughts on this? Below are the permissions for my Author role.

    Moderate Comments: Deny
    Read: Grant
    Edit Posts: Deny
    Publish Posts: Deny
    Delete Posts: Deny
    Delete Published Posts: Deny
    Edit Published Posts: Deny
    Upload Files: Grant
    edit_blocks: Grant
    publish_blocks: Grant
    read_blocks: Grant
    delete_blocks: Grant
    delete_published_blocks: Grant
    edit_published_blocks: Grant
    create_blocks: Grant
    edit_tribe_venues: Grant
    publish_tribe_venues: Grant
    delete_tribe_venues: Grant
    delete_published_tribe_venues: Grant
    edit_published_tribe_venues: Grant
    edit_tribe_organizers: Grant
    publish_tribe_organizers: Grant
    delete_tribe_organizers: Grant
    delete_published_tribe_organizers: Grant
    edit_published_tribe_organizers: Grant
    edit_tribe_events: Grant
    publish_tribe_events: Grant
    delete_tribe_events: Grant
    delete_published_tribe_events: Grant
    edit_published_tribe_events: Grant
    edit_aggregator_records: Grant
    publish_aggregator_records: Grant
    delete_aggregator_records: Grant
    delete_published_aggregator_records: Grant
    edit_published_aggregator_records: Grant
    Manage Categories: Grant

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  • Thread Starter dannemas

    (@dannemas)

    After more testing it seems the Tags module on the right of a New Event post is tied with the Edit Post capability for the Roles permission. So, if someone is running into this same issue, it can be “solved” by Granting the Role the ability to Edit Posts (Posts > Edit Posts > Grant). Though I believe this is still a bug, it may be due to permissions within WordPress itself. Would appreciate any developer feedback on this. Leaving it open for now.

    I’m having the same problem. Allowing Edit Posts then opens up a ton of options, including sliders on my Avada theme. I have the same set up as OP

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