Hello!
I have a user in WordPress, that has backend access, but is not an administrator (author role). I'd like that user to have access to the wpforo dashboard. This seemed to work for a day, but all of a sudden the Forums tab in the backend menu is gone. I checked the wpforo documentation and it says, that only WordPress-administrators with the admin usergroup role have access to the dashboard..? What if I don't want to give the forum-manager-user admin access to the wordpress backend, but still to the wpforo dashboard?
As of now, this forum-manager-user has the author wordpress role (backend access) and the admin usergroup role in wpforo. (can't see the wpforo dashboard though)
Thanks!
Hi @pete
Please note that WP User Roles like subscriber, contributes, author, editor, etc don't have any affection in forum accesses. They are not used in the forum. They are just synched with forum Usergroups. You'll just need to change the current usergroup to admin and make sure the same user doesn't have administrator role in WordPress.
You can change Forum member Usergroup in the member profile > Account page on forum front-end or just navigate to Dashboard > Forums > Members admin page, find the member, click on "edit profile" link and edit Usergroup.
More detailed information for forum accesses and usergroup permissions is provided by Robert in this support topic:
Hi @sofy
Thank you very much for your response! I'm sorry I didn't make myself clear, or if I misread your response - but the user I mentioned above, already has the admin usergroup (wpforo) assigned, but still can't access the dashboard. The WordPress role is author, which I do understand is not relevant.
Thank you!
Please navigate to Dashboard > Forums > Dashboard admin page, one by one click on the [Delete User Cache] and [Delete All Caches] buttons. If you've installed some other cache plugins, please delete those plugins caches as well, then ask the user to delete the browser caches and check again.
