Allowing non-admin user profiles to see the eStore panel in wp-admin:

[Justin Brock]

Right now, only people logged in with an Administrator role can see the eStore tab in wp-admin. Is it possible to give access to that tab to someone logged in with an Editor role?

I’m building a site for someone else, and don’t want them editing the theme or changing plugins, but I do want them to see the eStore. The use case is a non-technical business user needing to see some, but not all, of the administrative interface.

Block these –

Subscribers: don’t want them to see the eStore in wp-admin

Authors: don’t want them to see the eStore in wp-admin

Enable these –

Editors: don’t want them to see the eStore in wp-admin

Admins: don’t want them to see the eStore in wp-admin

[amin007]

This one is not hard to do… I am guessing you want the “Editors” and “Admins” to be able to see the “WP eStore” admin menus. This is what you do:

1. Open the “wp_eStore1.php” file and search for the following:

define("ESTORE_MANAGEMENT_PERMISSION", "add_users");

Once you find it replace it with the following:

define("ESTORE_MANAGEMENT_PERMISSION", "edit_pages");

This will make it so both editors and admins can see the WP eStore admin dashboard while the authors, subscribers and contributors cannot.

[Justin Brock]

Thank you so much! That worked perfectly.

[jerelmani]

Sadly. I had this working before i had upgraded to the latest version of the plugin.

Now I have changes the file exactly as it is stated above and it still does not work as it did before. Any thoughts? thanks

[admin]

WordPress changed some of these role permission constants. If you tell me which role you want to give access to I should be able to tell you the new constant value.

[Bld]

I also want to know this – how do I now make it so that editors can have access to the store? Need to get this sorted asap.

Thanks

[admin]

If your WordPress version is higher than WPv3.0 then do the following:

1. Open the “wp_eStore1.php” file and search for the following:

define("ESTORE_MANAGEMENT_PERMISSION", "add_users");

2. Once you find it replace it with the following:

define("ESTORE_MANAGEMENT_PERMISSION", "edit_pages");

[Bld]

Spot on! That done the trick alright – thanks for your prompt assistance.

[morbank]

Is there a way to do this in wp estore v. 7.2.1? Thank you.

[wzp]

Have you tried following the last set of directions, given by @admin? It should still work.

[morbank]

I don’t know where to locate the wp_eStore1.php file. I thought it would be located in the Editor section of the Plug-ins dashboard but I don’t see it!

[admin]

It should be there. May use FileZilla to log into your site via FTP. The following tutorial will show you how to use FileZilla:

https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/using-filezilla-ftp-client-for-your-wordpress-site-6566

[morbank]

Thank you for your assistance. I was actually able to find the file. However, I have another issue. I’m using a plug-in called User Role Editor, in which I can make up a new role and assign specific functions to it. I wanted to give certain people access to only certain pages, the ones they’ll be maintaining. So I made a role called “Editor_Pages” and checked the box edit_pages. So now they can only see the pages they’ve generated (and not edit anyone else’s). However, now they all have access to the WP estore in the dashboard. So is there another role I can attribute to the shop manager so that she is the only one who can see the WP estore but also be able to manage/maintain the store page? Is there something besides edit_pages I can type into the php file (instead of add_users)…like a capability as a contributor or an author? Thanks.

[admin]

You can use “publish_posts” to give access to author users.

[morbank]

It worked! Thank you very much!

[Author]

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