User Role Editor Pro version 4.37 was published at September, 27th, 2017. A lot of bug fixes and enhancements were applied to the code.
Changes List
- Core version: 4.36.1
- New: Required WordPress version was raised up to 4.4. Front-end menu access add-on does not support earlier WordPress versions.
- New: Posts/pages edit restrictions add-on: User with restrictions by categories can use ‘Clone’ link from ‘Duplicate Post’ plugin. The 1st category available to a current user will be assigned automatically to a new created post copy in order to make this post editable to this user.
- Fix: Posts/pages edit restrictions add-on: URE will extend automatically the list of allowed/restricted attachments for media library items, attached to allowed/restricted posts/pages/CPT.
- Update: Content View Restrictions shortcode add-on: Shortcode [user_role_editor] was not processed/rendered by default for a user with ‘administrator’ role,
following a logic “there are not restrictions for administrators”. It’s changed according to multiple user requests. Users with ‘administrator’ role will not see not rendered [user_role_editor]…[/user_role_editor] shortcode text at front-end starting with this update. It does not depend from a ‘ure_render_content_view_shortcode_for_admin’ filter value. All [user_role_editor] shortcodes are rendered for all users, including superadmin.
It’s possible to change this default behavior via custom filter ‘ure_render_content_view_shortcode_for_admin’. It takes a single boolean parameter. Change it to FALSE in order a user with ‘administrator’ role can see a raw content instead of a rendered/restricted one. - Fix: Front end menu access add-on:
– Access filter is applied for front-end only to get rid off accidental deletion of restricted menu items.
– ‘wp_get_nav_menu_items’ filter is used now instead of ‘wp_nav_menu_objects’ one, which fires too late for case when some plugin uses own code to show WordPress navigation menu and do not uses wp_nav_menu() function from WordPress core.
– URE does not override WordPress front-end menu output method as earlier, it uses reqexp to insert custom action to the right place of WordPress front-end menu output. - Fix: Admin menu access add-on:
– User with ‘manage_categories’ capability, but without ‘edit_posts’ one, did not have access to the Posts->Categories, Posts->Tags menu items with active “Admin menu access” add-on.
– ‘Block not selected’ model did not allow search and sort operations with categories and tags. User was redirected to the dashboard automatically. - Fix: Incompatibility issue with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin was fixed – meta boxes added by ACF were not recognized by “Widgets access” add-on.
- Update: Direct access to the global $current_user variable is excluded from the code. Current user data is initialized via WordPress core functions wp_get_current_user() or get_current_user_id().
- Update: Various unused pieces of code were removed.
- Core version was updated to 4.36.1
- Update: Direct access to the global $current_user variable is excluded from the code. Current user data is initialized via WordPress core functions wp_get_current_user() or get_current_user_id().
- New: It’s possible to set any URE’s option value programmatically: use custom filter ‘ure_get_option_
‘. It takes a single parameter with current/default value for required options. Full list of User Role Editor options is available here: https://www.role-editor.com/documentation/options-list - Update: Users page – Grant Roles. It’s possible to change just “Other roles” for multiple users and leave their primary roles untouched. Just leave a “Primary role” field empty. If you select the “- No role for this site -” option from a “Primary role” drop-down list, plugin will revoke all roles from the selected users.
- Update: Options page screen help text was updated.
- Fix: Additional (other) default roles set at URE’s settings page are not granted to a new user now, if they were deselected at a ‘Add New User’ page.
