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edit xprofile as an editor not an admin?

@muskokee

Participant

9 years, 5 months ago

Hi everyone, I want to allow editors and not just admins to edit user xprofile fields. Do you know of a hook that I can use to allow this? I have installed a general roles and capabilities plugin for the site, I can see the xprofile tab as an editor but when I click on it, it says I do not have permission to edit the profile. Through the plugin I can edit the regular wordpress profile fields…just not the xprofile!

TIA
Sheri

BTW – crossposted in the miscellaneous category. I think this is the more correct category though!

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@danbp

Participant

9 years, 5 months ago

This is actually not possible. Is a work on progress: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5121

@muskokee

Participant

9 years, 5 months ago

Thanks for the info. So there is no way that I can create a function that hooks into say…the page load and then check a user’s role and allow them to edit profile data?

I finally found the function that controls access (I think):

public function user_admin_load()

in bp-members-admin.php

Could I make a new copy in my theme folder so that I could hack the code? Not that I want to do that but according to the ticket, this issue has been outstanding for 2 years! My client needs to allow team members access to alter profiles but that is all they should be doing. And she needs this asap. There is no way she can wait 2 years! lol

@danbp

Participant

9 years, 5 months ago

That’s a recent function i didn’t know ! It’s filtrable, so you haven’t to hack that core file.

See also in same file member_can_edit function, related to bp_moderate capability, used for group admins, but i doubt you can apply it to “editor”…

FYI: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/bp_moderate-capability/

Additionnally, see this snippet written for WP only, if you can combine something:

Let Editor Manage Users in WordPress

I’ve already tested all this, but i got the same result as you. But i’m not a dev. 🙂

Good luck !

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