Per Plugin For Roles Not Working For Me

[joelpeterson]

Hi Guys,

Love this plugin… ok I have an issue.

I’ve watched your video and read the settings like 100 times now on per plugin for role as I want to just make a few plugins accessible for our clients to activate or deactivate.

Restrict plugins available for activation/deactivation

I’ve created a special Site Admin role which is a copy of Administrator and it has Activate Plugins enabled.

And then I went to the Plugins box on the right and selected about 5 plugins I want them to have access to….

But they still have access to everything.

Is there some other capability I have turned on that is over-riding this?

It should work…. ggrrrr 🙂

[Vladimir]

Hi,

Check if you granted access to URE capabilities for this role by mistake. It should not have access to the ‘ure_manage_options’, ‘ure_edit_roles’ and especially to ‘ure_plugins_activation_access’ capability as it allow to change settings and restrictions you made.

[joelpeterson]

Thanks….ya I have all of those NOT checked but it still gives me the issue.

Here is a screenshot of everything I have checked…. do you see anything that would be an issue here?

Thanks so much.

Joel

[Vladimir]

Joel,

I wonder how this capability could appear in your roles, but it never should be granted to any role apparently. WordPress uses ‘do_not_allow’ capability when it decides to prohibit required permission. Try to revoke ‘do_not_allow’ from this role. Will it change something?

[joelpeterson]

Thanks… it wasn’t that one… I had wondered about that one before. I just tried it but no luck.

So as a test I tested it with Subscriber and just activate_plugins and read enabled and it works….so it must be one of those other options….I guess I’ll have to check them one by one 🙂

Interesting though… the plugin WP-Rocket will not hide. I also just tried a plugin called Hide Plugins and the same thing WP-Rocket would not hide. Very weird.

Thanks,

Joel

[Vladimir]

Check also if some capability was assigned to the test user directly, not via roles.

If you provide me a copy of WP Rocket plugin (via Dropbox, or similar) I can look, why it’s not blocked and try to find a workaround.

[joelpeterson]

Oh Thanks….

Here is a link….let me know after you download it

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Still troubleshooting which one of those options is preventing access….. no luck yet.

Thanks,

Joel

[Vladimir]

Got it. Thank you.

[Vladimir]

I installed WP Rocket and recorded a demo video. It shows that:
1) I blocked access to WP Rocket successfully;
2) a copy of administrator role without URE capabilities works with “per plugin access” add-on as expected.

In could be a conflict with some plugin in your case. Try to deactivate plugins and re-test with different plugins subset also.

[Vladimir]

Restrictions for plugins may be set as for role, as at user profile. Re-check is you don’t have any other settings for plugins access at this user profile.

[joelpeterson]

Wow thanks so much 🙂

I’ll double check everything. And yes it could be another plugin conflict going on here.

Thanks,

Joel

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