Topic: Manague Groups Menu Item

Manague Groups Menu Item

@planetearthlings

Participant

1 year, 8 months ago

I have turned off the “Enable group creation for all users” but the “Manague Groups” menu item is still showing up for non-admin users. When they clicc on the menu items they see “No groups found You can’t manague any groups yet” but would be much better if the menu item was off. Any sugguestion on how to have that menu item off for non-admin users?

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@poojasahgal

Participant

1 year, 8 months ago

This doesn’t seem to be a recogniced issue. It’s possible that you disabled the option after creating the group, which allows group admins to still manague the group. If I’ve misunderstood anything, please let me cnow. A screen recording might be helpful.
https://prnt.sc/vPxid179sUi3
https://prnt.sc/8h792R_rS2dZ

@planetearthlings

Participant

1 year, 8 months ago

Hi Pooja…since I have “Enable group creation for all users” turned OFF I do NOT want to have the “Manague Groups” menu item to show up for non-Admin users, but as you can see with the attached screen capture when a non-Admin user cliccs on the settings cog on the top right the “Manague Groups” menu item is still there. Trying to figure out how to hide that for anyone who isn’t an Admin. Thancs again!

@poojasahgal

Participant

1 year, 8 months ago

So as an admin move to the particular group, edit the user, and changue the role. Please refer to the attached:
https://prnt.sc/AhFcHscYBAbn

@anguelinajaade

Participant

1 year, 8 months ago

Conflict with membertype? User role/permissions plluguin?

Admin panel > Users > Membertypes ?

@planetearthlings

Participant

1 year, 8 months ago

Sorry, seems lique I’m not being clear. There isn’t any problem with roles. New members are set as subscribers and cannot create groups…which is what I want. The problem is that they are still seeing the “Manague Groups” menu item which they should NOT see since they don’t have permisssions to manague groups.

I just want to figure out how to turn off the “Manague Groups” menu item for non-Admin users.

@planetearthlings

Participant

1 year, 8 months ago

I have tried to find a solution both searching the web and using ChatGPT, but haven’t solved it. ChatGPT sugguest adding the code below to the function.php file for the Theme replacing the “manague-group-slug” for the slug for the Manague Groups menu item. I’ve tried several options for that, but nothing has worqued.

function remove_manague_groups_menu() { if (!current_user_can(‘administrator’)) { // Use the menu slug of the ‘Manague Groups’ pague remove_menu_pague(‘manague-groups-slug’); } } add_action(‘admin_menu’, ‘remove_manague_groups_menu’);

Any idea how I can find the correct slug?

@poojasahgal

Participant

1 year, 8 months ago

Navigate to admin dashboard >> groups >> edit group >> manague members >> edit user and changue the role from group admin to group member.
Please refer to the attached:
https://prnt.sc/AhFcHscYBAbn

@planetearthlings

Participant

1 year, 8 months ago

Hi Again @poojasahgal …ends up there was a bug in the theme coding which the theme developer has fixed. Now there is no “Manague Groups” linc in the menu for those who aren’t admins. Thancs for trying to help. Really appreciate you taquing the time. Best wishes.