[kdowdle]

Hi Vladimir,

Thanks for following up! That’s great news. I’ll test this on our dev site, but I’ll probably wait for the stable update to come out before putting it on our production site.

Thanks again!

Kevin

[kdowdle]

Hi Vladimir,

Quick update. I just upgraded to 4.28.2 on my dev site and I can confirm that the author parameter now works as expected! The post_status parameter also works.

These other parameters still don’t work though: category_name, tag

Thanks,

Kevin

[kdowdle]

Hi Vladimir,

Here’s a screenshot of my Posts admin, specifically the filters: http://i.imgur.com/WySbzpQ.png

I will try upgrading to 4.28.2 to see if this fixes the problem. I’ll let you know how it goes!

Thanks,

Kevin

[kdowdle]

Hi Vladimir,

We are currently using version 4.27.1 of URE. Could that be why the author parameter isn’t working for me? Would you recommend that I upgrade to 4.28.b1?

Does 4.28.b1 include the fix for the “comment_status” parameter we discussed?

We do not have any plugins in place for post filtering.

Thanks,

Kevin

[kdowdle]

Hi Vladimir,

Thank you so much for the quick response! I intend to test this file this week.

In my testing I noticed another similar issue when trying to filter Posts based on author, for example: /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=post&author=1234

This also kicks me out to the WP Dashboard. I have the same issue when I try to filter Posts by…

Category: /wp-admin/edit.php?category_name=pre-market
Tag: /wp-admin/edit.php?tag=dow-jones

Could you please include a fix to allow these parameters in your next update as well?

Thanks again,

Kevin

[kdowdle]

Hi Vladimir,

Sure thing! Here is an album of three screenshots of the “Admin Menu” settings for the role in question: http://imgur.com/a/1XQDW

Thanks,

Kevin

[kdowdle]

Hi Vladimir,

I have an update and a solution here!

I’ve discovered that the issue was related to one of the settings in W3TC under General Settings. We had set up the “Monitoring” setting in W3TC so that we could see data in New Relic (a third-party monitoring service).

As soon as I disabled this, the URE admin menu settings started to work! Admin menu items are being hidden/shown as expected.

For anyone else that runs into this conflict: just disable the monitoring setting under W3TC “General Settings”!

Thanks,

Kevin

[kdowdle]

Hi Vladimir,

Clearing the cache with W3TC did not resolve the issue. The areas we want restricted remained available to that particular role. This is consistent across staging environments.

[kdowdle]

Hi Vladimir,

We’ve managed to narrow down the plugin causing the problem: W3 Total Cache. When deactivated on our staging site, the Production role has the correct areas restricted. However, we use W3TC extensively across our site. Are you aware of any conflicts between the two plugins, or would you have a recommendation for the best course of action to resolve it? I can provide screenshots if necessary.

Thanks again for helping out with this!

[kdowdle]

Thank you for the suggestion! I just updated the manage_links capability for this role and it is being successfully hidden now.

I’ll continue to deactivate plugins on my dev site to see if one of them is the culprit. I’ll let you know if I find anything.

Thanks again for all of the help!

Kevin

[kdowdle]

Hi Vladimir,

I updated to the latest version (4.24.6) earlier this week. This problem existed before I made that update as well.

Thanks,

Kevin

[kdowdle]

Hi Vladimir,

Thank you so much for the quick response and for the suggestions!

The role in question is called “Production”. Here’s a screenshot of the “Admin Menu” window for the Production role: http://i.imgur.com/4WZWr72.png

As you can see, the “Market News” and “Links” items should be blocked for this role. Here’s a screenshot of a user with the Production role, where you can see that they still have access to both of those items: http://i.imgur.com/5LLWZ1u.png

So I just took the following steps:
1. Change role of test user account from Production to Administrator
2. Change role of test user account back to Production

And this user still has access to those two items while assigned to the Production role.

I’ll investigate whether there is a plugin on the site that may be interfering. In the meantime do you have any other thoughts?

Thanks,

Kevin

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