Hiding Options Page from a role

• codynew

• January 20, 2014 at 6:33 pm

Hi

I have the Options Page addon and have it set up correctly.

However I would like to hide/disable the Options Page in the main menu for anyone who is NOT an administrator.

So far I have this…

Show this field group if

Options Page IS EQUAL to General Settings
AND
Logged in User Type IS EQUAL to Administrator

I also added this to my functions file…

add_action( 'admin_menu', 'remove_links_menu_contributors' );
function remove_links_menu_contributors() {
	if(!current_user_can('create_users')) {
	remove_menu_page('index.php'); // Remove Dashboard
	remove_menu_page('admin.php?page=acf-options-general'); // Remove ACF Options
	}
}

Plus, I have this in my functions.php file…

	// options pages
	function my_acf_options_page_settings( $settings )
	{
		$settings['title'] = 'General Settings';
		$settings['pages'] = array('General', 'Extras');
		return $settings;
	}
	add_filter('acf/options_page/settings', 'my_acf_options_page_settings');

However this doesnt work, and the Option is still showing on the main menu on the left hand side of wp-admin.

Any advice please?

Thanks

• Elliot

• January 21, 2014 at 5:37 pm

Hi @codynew

The options page settings filter allows more customization than what is in the documentation. If you print out the $settings array, you will see something like this:

array(
			'title' 		=> __('Options','acf'),
			'menu'			=> __('Options','acf'),
			'slug' 			=> 'acf-options',
			'capability'	=> 'edit_posts',
			'pages' 		=> array(),
		);

Here you can see that an arg of capability will allow you to customize the role to see this menu item.

Thanks
E

• codynew

• January 22, 2014 at 8:41 am

Thanks Elliot

Where should I add that code you’ve noted please?

• Elliot

• January 23, 2014 at 11:48 am

Hi @codynew

The above array is the default $settings for the filter add_filter('acf/options_page/settings', 'my_acf_options_page_settings');

You can use the filter code which you already have, and just edit the ‘capability’ in a similar way to how you have edited the ‘title’

Thanks
E