Copied Admin role can't edit home page

[birminghamcity]

I have a user role that is basically a clone of the Administrator user, but without access to plugins and some settings.

Users within this group can see all pages to edit, except the Home page. If I specifically allow them to edit that page, they can see only that page.

Is there a setting somewhere that I am missing that would allow users in this group to edit the home page?

[Vladimir]

Static page selected as a “Home page” is available for editing by default to any user with edit_pages, edit_others_pages, edit_published_pages capabilities.
Did you set any additional edit restrictions for this role or user with this role?

[birminghamcity]

Do I need to add these as additional capabilities on top of the custom role I have created? The role I created and applied to that user has all of those capabilities included.

[birminghamcity]

Here is a screen shot of the core permissions for the role I have created:

https://www.evernote.com/l/AAEfGT65iSdAiKZbQ6AJt8BXPELCkC1nXt8

[Vladimir]

I see your role has all capabilities from ‘posts’ and ‘pages’ groups. It’s enough to edit any post or page, in general. You need to check if your role or/and user does not have any additional restriction, may be set accidentally or by other plugin.
1) try to deactivate User Role Editor and re-test;
2) try to deactivate all plugins and re-test.
In case if restriction was added by some plugin, activate plugins back one by one and make another test in order to isolate a reason.

[birminghamcity]

Ok, I have tried the following:

1. Deactivated and reactivated User Role Editor Pro plugin and re-tested.
2. Deactivated ALL plugins and only activated URE Pro.

Both instances still caused these users to be able to edit all pages EXCEPT home page.

As a side note, if I have URE Pro installed and activated, do I need to have the free version of URE activated?

Users are set to this “CityAdmin” with all capabilities mentioned above. Under Posts/Pages/Custom Post Types Editor Restrictions, I have “Look At Roles” selected.

I have tried adding Editor as an additional role, but that still does not give access to the home page.

If I add the home page id to the “with post ID (comma separated)” field, the it restricts the list of editable pages to ONLY that page.

[Vladimir]

Is it possible to look at your site with admin privileges? If ‘Yes’, send login credentials to support [at-sign] role-editor.com

URE Pro is built on the top of a free version (uses free version as the core) and includes full free version copy. So there is no need to activate free and Pro versions together. Every version has built-in control and checks if other copy of URE is running already before its activation.

[birminghamcity]

I have created a user account for you. Let me know if you did not receive the email for it.

The site url is http://www.birminghamal.gov

[birminghamcity]

Sorry, I accidentally posted on the wrong thread. Have you had a chance to investigate this further? We have resorted to a “hack” where we created a second user account with only access to the homepage. This is not ideal. Any updates?

[Vladimir]

Sorry for delay with response. I tried at May, 25th, but can not access your site with this error message: “www.birminghamal.gov’s server DNS address could not be found”.
I thought to try later and missed this question out somehow. So thank for the remind.

Today I can not access this site too with the same error message though.

[Vladimir]

Home page was hidden from all users except the selected group by custom code included into the active theme functions.php file.

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