Blocking access to dashboard for users

In all your pre-sales literature I did not see anything stating that S2Manager would block all access to the dashboard for everyone except administrators. I found a support thread that mentioned role editor, and I tried it but that does not fix it because you block everyone except admin.

What file do I need to hack to allow access back to the dashboard? I like everything else about your software but my users need to access a plugin, that was the only content I needed to regulate membership access to. If there is no way to get around the dashboard block, I would kindly ask for a refund as it would not be possible for me to operate with it.

Hi Tony.

s2Member doesn’t manage access to the admin side at all. Your users, when given an s2Member Level, get a WP role for that s2Member level. Even without s2Member, a regular user would not get access to the plugins in the admin side, that’s the default behavior.

Sometimes plugins give access to their settings page if the user has a certain WP capability. I don’t know if that’s the case with that plugin you’re using, but if it is, you could add that capability to the s2Member role the users get. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-role-editor/

I hope that helps. :)

Hi Tony,

I had a similar need in controlling the WP-Admin bar…. in my case I wanted to hide elements in the admin-toolbar…. but you can use the same logic using the WP function add_node () and remove_node() to gain control over what to users can see.

I used the following code in my custom functions file located in the mu-plugin folder:

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//Kampester Custom function Adapted For MU Buddypress Newtwork  - New function
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


function admin_bar_remove_this(){
     global $wp_admin_bar;
    if(!is_super_admin()){
     $wp_admin_bar->remove_node('blogs-menu');
    $wp_admin_bar->remove_node('account-menu');
    $wp_admin_bar->remove_node('new-content');
    $wp_admin_bar->remove_node('my-sites');
       }
        $wp_admin_bar->remove_node('wp-logo');
           }
        add_action('wp_before_admin_bar_render','admin_bar_remove_this');

To start I used this function to get a entire list of all the nodes available in my install – this code will place menu item in your admin-bar that you can use to identify the elements naming convention. I got the code from the WP codex….

Hope this helps.

add_action( 'wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'add_all_node_ids_to_toolbar');
 
 function add_all_node_ids_to_toolbar() {
 
   global $wp_admin_bar;
   $all_toolbar_nodes = $wp_admin_bar->get_nodes();
       
   if($all_toolbar_nodes){
   
     // add a top-level Toolbar item called "Node Id's" to the Toolbar
     $args = array('id' => 'node_ids', 'title' => 'Node ID\'s');
     $wp_admin_bar->add_node($args);
     
     // add all current parent node id's to the top-level node.
     foreach ( $all_toolbar_nodes as $node  ) {
       if(isset($node->parent) && $node->parent){
       
         $args = array(
           'id' => 'node_id_'.$node->id, // prefix id with "node_id_" to make it a unique id
           'title' => $node->id,
           'parent' => 'node_ids'
           // 'href' => $node->href,
         );
         // add parent node to node "node_ids"
         $wp_admin_bar->add_node($args);
       }
     }
     
     // add all current Toolbar items to their parent node or to the top-level node
     foreach ( $all_toolbar_nodes as $node  ) {
     
       $args = array(
         'id' => 'node_id_'.$node->id, // prefix id with "node_id_" to make it a unique id
         'title' => $node->id,
         // 'href' => $node->href,
       );
       
       if(isset($node->parent) && $node->parent){
         $args['parent'] = 'node_id_'.$node->parent;
       } else {
         $args['parent'] = 'node_ids';
       }
       
       $wp_admin_bar->add_node($args);
     }
   }
 }