Non-Administrators "Access Denied"

SFGolfer I’m not sure if this will be helpful, but I also admin a network of “non technical” users. Being that they are already non-technical I simply went the direction of hiding elements using CSS. I wrote up a plugin and that is one of it’s functions; load custom CSS based on user role. This gives me total control of what they see and can access.

function load_custom_wp_admin_style()
		{
			echo '<link href="https://urltoyourstylesheet-1" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">';

				if (is_super_admin(1 == $current_user->ID))
				{
					echo '<link href="https://urltoyourstylesheet-2" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">';
					}

				else
				{
					echo '<link href="https://urltoyourstylesheet-3" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">';

				}
		}

I basically load a default stylesheet for everyone, then a special stylesheet for me, or none if you like, and lastly a stylesheet for everyone else.

I did just this for Shortcodes Ultimate.

a.su-generator-button {
  display:none !important;
}

I’ll try to work something out in closest versions.

You can add next line of code to your theme’s functions.php

update_option( 'su_generator_access', 'administrator' );

It will start working from next version (4.1.1).

The update_option did not work.

What does this snippet do?

What do I put in there to prevent the Author role from accessing SU?

Did you updated to 4.1.1?
Where do you paste this snippet?
Try to replace administrator with editor. This value defines minimal user role to access the generator.

Yes, I did update to 4.1.1 but did not see an option to set the level.

But changing it to editor worked. Now I understand it defines the minimal user level.

Thank you!

@jarmerson – thanks for your input as well. I’ll probably use your code for another purpose.

Yes, I did update to 4.1.1 but did not see an option to set the level.

I think there is no need to overload settings page with options like this one.

Thank you for review =)
Just created article about this hack – https://gndev.info/kb/how-to-restrict-access-to-shortcode-generator/

Hi,
Sorry for my bad english. I’ve got a problem with galleries utilization: administrators can manage galleries but what about other roles ?
I need my authors or editors to be able to create galleries in order to put them into their posts. But when an author clicks onto “manage galleries”, a message appears saying that they “do not have sufficient permissions to access this page”. I think it’s because they don’t have access to plugins therefore they can’t access to the tab of “Shortcode Ultimate” that allows to manage galleries. How can I solve this problem?
Your plugin is awesome, beautiful and really easy to use and I don’t want to be obliged to create everyday each gallerie for each post. Thanks a lot for your answer !

I need non-admins but users with edit-posts capabilities to edit Galleries also. Please fix it. Thank you