Show logs to all users

The way it works “under the hood” is that only roles/users that have the manage_options capability can see the dashboard widget. I wouldn’t recommend giving this capability to non-admins because it would also give them access to a number of other admin features.

You can change the required capability by using the elm_show_dashboard_widget filter. For example:

function elm_allow_other_roles() {
    //Allow any role that can publish posts.
    return 'publish_posts'; 
}
add_filter('elm_show_dashboard_widget', 'elm_allow_other_roles', 10, 0);

Has something changed with how this filter works?

I need to give editors the capability to manage_options on a client’s site, but using the add_filter code posted above, with ‘update_core’ as the returned value, doesn’t have any effect on whether the editors can see the dashboard widget (they still can).

The filter hasn’t changed, it’s actually my original example code that was wrong. Instead of returning a capability name, the filter should perform the capability check and return true or false. Like this:

function elm_allow_other_roles() {
    return current_user_can('update_core'); 
}
add_filter('elm_show_dashboard_widget', 'elm_allow_other_roles', 10, 0);

That seems to be working. Thanks much!