manage_woocommerce_orders capability

Is it possible that you manually added the capability using User Role Editor?

I looked through WooCommerce’s commit history for the capabilities and couldn’t find any mention of having a ‘manage_woocommerce_orders’ in the past.

What exactly are you needing to do by the way? There are other capabilities that you could use for this instead: https://cld.wthms.co/60QW/5CQyI5BV

Hi Caleb

User Role Editor only gives you access to capabilities in WordPress and installed plugins. You can then turn them on or off depending on user roles.

You can create new User Roles and then assign capabilities, but not new capabilities.

What exactly are you needing to do by the way?

I need to separate the order processing part of the admin back-end from Woocommerce settings.

capabilities are only any good if supported by the plugin. There should be a bunch of capabilities with suffix shop_order – these are added by WP.

Hi Mike

Thanks for the feedback, is it possible to create this capability then as a plugin or in the functions.php of my child theme?

I’m not a coder – so where do I start to get this to work?

Thank you!

You can create capabilities, but they won’t be any good as nothing will be relying on them. Why won’t these work: https://cld.wthms.co/60QW/5CQyI5BV ?

Hi Caleb

This is not about adding capability, but restricting capability. The manage_shop_orders capability restricted the user to ONLY being able to manage the orders part of Woocommerce. That is what I’m after.

Thanks

There is no manage_shop_orders capability though…

You can use a combination of these already existing capabilities instead: https://cld.wthms.co/1bal8/JgWNluut. Give the user the available to create, read, edit, and delete orders and they then have the ability to “manage shop orders”.

There is no manage_shop_orders capability though…

Apologies I meant manage_woocommerce_orders

You can use a combination of these already existing capabilities instead: https://cld.wthms.co/1bal8/JgWNluut. Give the user the available to create, read, edit, and delete orders and they then have the ability to “manage shop orders”.

I need to remove settings and other Woocommerce menu items from the shop admins, so the issue was never access to orders, but removing access to all the other Woocommerce settings given by the manage_woocommerce capability.

However, I see now that manage_woocommerce_orders has disappeared since the last WP update.

I’ve used Admin Menu Editor now to remove the other Woocommerce menu options from the Admin. Not ideal, but it works.

Thanks all for your feedback!