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Wordpress guidance - how do you handle custom pages for different user roles

Hello

This is my optimal scenario. It is a nursery website with general information available to all members of the public. I'm ok with that bit

Then there is an staff section where stafff can login and add informtion about a pupil's progress thtat day

Then there is a parent section where parents can login and find informton about their children for that day.

I have seen that you can include a role based admin section as described here
http://www.paulund.co.uk/create-your-own-wordpress-login-page

My query is about the custom pages for the staff and parent sections. These pages woudl have to be written using php and wont just be part of some template. Can i add the new database tables that I need to the wordpress database? Can i use the wpdb databsae object with my new tables?

I am presuming the answers woudl be yes to these questions. Where would i put the php pages for the parent/staff section? Would they just be relative to public html?

Thanks in advance. I'm not really that comfortable wth wordpress

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andieje

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This sounds great. Would it be too cheeky as ask for a screenshot? I presume asking how you did it woudl just be outrageously impudent :)

James Rodgers

here are some examples of how it can be accomplished

//http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
//http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_cap
//http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/current_user_can

$cap_array_custom_admin = array(
'delete_others_pages' => true,
'delete_others_posts' => true,
'delete_pages' => true,
'delete_posts' => true,
'delete_private_pages' => true,
'delete_private_posts' => true,
'delete_published_pages' => true,
'delete_published_posts' => true,
'edit_others_pages' => true,
'edit_others_posts' => true,
'edit_pages' => true,
'edit_posts' => true,
'edit_private_pages' => true,
'edit_private_posts' => true,
'edit_published_pages' => true,
'edit_published_posts' => true,
'manage_categories' => false,
'manage_links' => true,
'moderate_comments' => true,
'publish_pages' => true,
'publish_posts' => true,
'read' => true,
'read_private_pages' => true,
'read_private_posts' => true,
'unfiltered_html ' => false,
'upload_files' => true,
'allow_front_end_new_post_submit' => true,
'allow_verified_user_comment' => true,
'allow_post_thumbs_up' => true,
'allow_post_social_media_sharing' => true,
'allow_verify_club_member_reg' => true,
'allow_verify_club_staff_reg' => true,
'allow_verify_public_reg' => true,
'allow_club_post_abuse_report_notification' => true,
'allow_approve_club_post' => true,
'allow_approve_public_post' => true,
'allow_public_post_abuse_report_notification' => true,
'allow_set_feature_post' => true,
'allow_disable_account' => true,
'allow_approve_tag' => true,
'allow_add_new_custom_admin' => true);
add_role('Custom_Admin', 'Custom Admin', $cap_array_custom_admin);

//change the capabilities to various other roles, create a user role without the ability to add new admins
//change the value in the array to false
$cap_array_custom_admin['allow_add_new_custom_admin'] = false;
//create the role
add_role('Custom_Admin_jr', 'Custom Admin Junior', $cap_array_custom_admin);

//add a capability, add this to the array
add_role('Custom_Admin_spr', 'Custom Admin Super', array_merge(array(
            'allow_add_new_custom_admin'=>true,
            ),$cap_array_custom_admin));

// check the user role
function get_user_roles( $user_id ) {
$user_roles = [];

$user = get_userdata( $user_id );
$capabilities = $user->{$wpdb->prefix . 'capabilities'};

if ( !isset( $wp_roles ) ) {
$wp_roles = new WP_Roles();

foreach ( $wp_roles->role_names as $role => $name ) {

if ( array_key_exists( $role, $capabilities ) )
$user_roles[] = $role;
}
}

return $user_roles;
}

//check if the current user can do a soecfic capability
if (current_user_can( 'allow_add_new_custom_admin' ) ){
      // do action(s) allowable by users with this capability
}

andieje

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Superb :)