Creating a new user to only manage/edit links in Linky

  • I am a WordPress noob, but have mangled through most things so far! This one stumps me though.

    I really want to use this Linky plugin over LinkTree but we do need someone else to be able to manage/control the links in it without giving them access to our entire site. I saw the post/response in a prior forum question from 2 years ago, but have no clue what to do with that snippet of code.

    Where does it go? In my theme’s function.php file? If so, does this stick around when we apply theme updates? I did try putting it there and updating the file, but I got back a compile error stating “manage_links” is not defined and it rolled back the update.

    Or has this feature been added to the plugin already in some other way?

    Appreciate anyone’s help here!

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Thread Starter cchervit

    (@cchervit)

    Just an update since I can’t find a way to edit my original post:

    1. I installed a plug-in called Members and created a new role called “Linky Links Editor”. If I give this role permissions to “manage options”, it basically opens up all of the plug-ins for this user to control — which is not what I want of course. If I take that option away, I see no plugins in the admin bar. How do I get just “Linky” plugin to show up?
    2. I installed a plug-in called WPCode and created an admin menu item that gives me a menu item that brings me directly to the linky-links page (https://midtownpt.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-linky-links). This presents itself only when the logged in user is of the Linky Links Editor role.
      • I tried creating a the add_filter() function that was listed in the above forum post as a code-snippet. It seems to compile and gets deployed using the WPCode plug-in, but it doesn’t seem to do anything (that I can tell)
    3. When I go to that URL (admin.php?page=wp-linky-links) using the admin menu and while logged in as a Linky Links Editor, I can’t get to it. I get an error “you do not have access to this page”.

    So I’m still confused a bit about if the Linky plugin has any permissions built-in that I can expose in Members plug-in, or what?

    Does anybody have a clue about what I need to do to just give a certain created WP role access to this one Linky plugin?

    Thanks for helping!

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by cchervit.
    Plugin Author Undefined

    (@undefinedfr)

    Hi @cchervit

    This topic explain how to change capacity to access Linky settings and “editor” is capability.
    You must to create specific role with capabilities (with Members plugin for example). In functions.php filter, you must to edit capability with role slug.

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