WP 4 question

Hello.

Two notes also:

– My WP installation is in a different folder than the root.

– I know that in your plugin description you say that it works up to 3.5.2, but I have found that these are sometimes outdated.

Thanks again.

Yes it work with WP 4+

Did you read the documentation (eg the User Manual). Please RTFM!

From the FAQ:

Where are the admin menus?

You’ve successfully installed the Web Librarian, but none of the admin menus (Patrons, Collection, Circulation Types, Circulation Desk, or Circulation Stats) show up. Why is this? This is because you are probably logged in as the web site administrator (your user role is Administrator). You need to create at least a user with a user role of Librarian and then log in as this user. Optionally, you can also create users with roles of Senior Aid or Volunteer, who have lesser privileges — these latter users make sense if you are a large enough library that has additional staff (“Senior Aid”) or uses additional workers (“Volunteer”) who man the circulation desk(s). It is important to read the subsection titled “User Role Setup” in the “Installation and basic setup” section carefully and to be sure you understand it fully.

Hello.

First of all thx for the answer in such a short time.

Sorry but it is the first time that a plugin I use hides all of the options from the admin role and it felt very strange since all users will be admins when they install it. This combined with the notices in debug mode I thought there was an issue. Also as I said in the plugin’s description is says 3.5.2. These are 3 very logical reasons to think that something may be going wrong.

Also I downloaded the manual “Web Librarian Plugin User Manual – Robert Heller – May 21, 2014” and I could not find a FAQ there, neither a mention on the menu issue. you only say that the Librarian is a different role than the administrator.

I think that the above were logical and many steps before I decided to write here, especially when you say RTFM and the TFM does not have the problem I was looking for.

As I said, thx for the quick answer either way.

Cheers

PS: The notices I mentioned still print in DEBUG mode

The FAQ is on the Plugin Page (and in the readme.txt file).

The reason for separating the librarian admin pages from the administrator dashboard is a combination of the principle of ‘privilege separation’ and because the original purpose for the plugin was as a intermediate library management system for my local library (which ended up not being necessary, because the regional library system got its act together in a more timely fashion than was originally thought). The librarian at my local library is NOT a computer geek and would have found the full admin dashboard a little overwhelming. I wanted to give her a more stripped down interface, with just the things she needed and not any extra stuff. I have since discovered that this is actually not a terribly odd situation: often with small organizations with libraries the librarian is not a techy, but has an ‘IT Person’ (either paid or volunteer) to deal with techy issues. This IT Person would set up the WP site, install the plugin, and create the user login(s) for the librarian and any library staff people and deal with things like the look of the site (eg the theme and any additional plugins) and such like.

I have not bothered to update the version of WP in the readme.txt, since I have not had any reason to update the plugin. At this point the plugin is pretty much stable and I have other things I need to work on. I function on an ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ principle in general.

Hello.

The role of Librarian (and any other custom roles) is very logical from your part and correct. I was not saying that these roles are wrong, I was only saying that the admin also could have access as well.

For example now that I am setting up the site it would be helpful if I, logged as an admin can actually manage the site and the library while doing tests.

That is all. No problem though, I will add the capabilities to the admin role.

Thanks anyway for the work you have done. I will use this system for a very important project so you are really saving me with this. I will put a good review if everything works out.

Take care.