creating custom capability with role manager fails

I am using WP 2.3.3 and the Role Manager plugin (version 2.0.9). I have not had the need to create a new role for some time, but I just went and tested it. I created the new role, hit the create button and it appeared at the bottom of the existing roles. I then set the user level to my desired number, created a new user account and assigned it to the new role. I then logged in as the new user, and all was working as expected. I could not duplicate your concern. I will upgrade to Roll Manager version 2.2.1, and see if my results are any different.

I just updated to Roll Manager version 2.2.1 and repeated the steps outlined above. I can not duplicate the concern. The latest version of the plugin is functioning properly for me on WordPress 2.3.3. Perhaps you have a confilcting plugin. Time for some “process of elimination” it seems.

I’m sorry I could not be of assistance.
Best of luck.

Cj

thanks a lot clayton — your’re probably right, must be another plugin. the thing is, it’s not practical for me to turn off the plugins, because i need them all. and i can’t afford to turn them off sporadically in the future — when the site goes live, because i will also need to ocasionally add new capabilities.

so the solution is really to manually add a new capability in wp_options. i’m also interested in figuring this out for the heck of it, but my attempt so far has not been successful.

i was wondering if somebody could help me with the format of IWG_RoleMan_CapList., clearly i’s are ids so some_new_capability should get the i:55. but i can’t figure out what s’s are. Any idea?

a:44:{i:0;s:21:"access_on_maintenance";i:1;s:16:"activate_plugins";i:2;s:15:"configure_gengo";i:3;s:12:"create_users";i:4;s:16:"delete_languages";i:5;s:19:"delete_others_pages";i:6;s:19:"delete_others_posts";i:7;s:12:"delete_pages";i:8;s:12:"delete_posts";i:9;s:20:"delete_private_pages";i:10;s:20:"delete_private_posts";i:11;s:22:"delete_published_pages";i:12;s:22:"delete_published_posts";i:13;s:12:"delete_users";i:14;s:10:"edit_files";i:15;s:17:"edit_others_pages";i:16;s:17:"edit_others_posts";i:17;s:10:"edit_pages";i:18;s:12:"edit_plugins";i:19;s:10:"edit_posts";i:20;s:18:"edit_private_pages";i:21;s:18:"edit_private_posts";i:22;s:20:"edit_published_pages";i:23;s:20:"edit_published_posts";i:24;s:11:"edit_themes";i:25;s:10:"edit_users";i:26;s:6:"import";i:38;s:17:"manage_categories";i:39;s:12:"manage_links";i:40;s:14:"manage_options";i:41;s:17:"moderate_comments";i:42;s:23:"modify_gengo_exclusions";i:43;s:21:"modify_gengo_settings";i:44;s:13:"publish_pages";i:45;s:13:"publish_posts";i:46;s:4:"read";i:47;s:18:"read_private_pages";i:48;s:18:"read_private_posts";i:49;s:25:"set_blog_default_language";i:50;s:13:"switch_themes";i:51;s:15:"unfiltered_html";i:52;s:17:"unfiltered_upload";i:53;s:15:"uninstall_gengo";i:54;s:12:"upload_files";}

I think you two are talking about 2 different things. CJ, you might have misunderstood his question. Psychomachine is asking about capabilities while you were testing roles.

Anyway I could create custom capabilities without a problem on WP 2.1 with role manager 2.2.1. They show just fine and I can assign them to roles.

The only question I have is how do I add a capability to a particular role so they can use installed plugin (AdServe)?
Can it be done?

I’m having the same problem with adding custom capabilities. I type in a name, hit submit and nothing happens. It goes back to the capabilities page without creating one.

Here are the WP settings:


WordPress-Version : 2.5.1
WordPress-Db-Version : 7796
Role-Manager-Version : 02.02.02 (131586)
PHP-Version : 5.2.5


Hello, i can create a custom capability, and assign it to a role no problem. Now i am trying to do the following And it doesnt work, can anyone help, how do i access this custom capability. Basically what i want to do is check if a user has that capability assigned to him or not, and then i am going to use if else statements like below to set a value depending on whether he have access or not and return that value somewhere else and do whatever i like with it, has anyone done this? I have search far and wide, no luck :(.

if ( current_user_can(‘Hbpediapublisher’) )
{
$myHbPediaLevel = “12”;
}
elseif( current_user_can(‘Hbpediaeditor’) )
{
$myHbPediaLevel = “11”;
}
?>
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