Forum Roles rename AND WP-admins as non-Forum-admins

#1 · December 4, 2018, 6:04 pm

I have 2 wishes.

1. I want the Forum role “Administrator” renamed to i.g. “ForumAdmin”, or at least a title, that is not identical with WordPress “Administrator”.
Doing bulk operations on users is so nice, but mistakes are easy if there is no way to distingquish between WordPress “Administrator” and Firum “Adnministrator, the lst coul be “ForumAdministrator”

2. I notice, that I can change any WordPress into a Forum Administrator, which is fine.
I notice thoug, that I CANNOT change a WordPress Administrator into a Forum non-administrator (“Normal”).
As it is not all WordPress admistrators who want to be Forum-Administrators, we also want this option.

Sune, Denmark

#2 · December 4, 2018, 6:23 pm

Hello @sune

It is intended behavior that you cant downgrade the forum-role of an Administrator. Otherwise it would be easily possible to lock yourself out from the entire forum. Imagine you are the only administrator and set your forum-role to “Normal”. In this case it would be not possible for you anymore to manage your forum or set back the role because you cant do those operations as a non-administrator.

Regarding the renaming: I will check if I change this in a future-update, but the current namings should be obvious as well because its clearly mentioned that the roles are related to the forum (e.g. for bulk-action: “Assign forum role: Administrator”).

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#3 · January 10, 2019, 11:13 pm

Hello @asgaros,

Thank you for all you do. I would like to rename the “Normal” Forum Role designation to “Student”.

While we can get along without it. It would certainly be an enhancement to our site.

Thank you. -Darlene

#4 · January 11, 2019, 12:13 pm

Hello @darlene

You can have a look at the following topic if you just want to change a specific string:

https://asgaros.com/support/topic/change-specific-translated-strings/

A rule for this should look like the following:

case 'Normal':
    $translated_text = 'Student';
break;

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#5 · January 13, 2019, 6:20 am

Please help. I’ve looked through all of the files and cannot find one named: “functions.php” I did find where the “roles” are listed in the admin.php file on line 41. I’ve scrolled through all of the code but am missing where I should insert the translated text code completely.

Thank you. Darlene

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#6 · January 13, 2019, 1:19 pm

Hello @darlene

The functions.php file is part of your theme. If your edit your theme via the Appearance section you should find it. 🙂

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#7 · January 13, 2019, 7:23 pm

It worked and it looks great!

I was so afraid I was going to break something and I am so relieved I didn’t. Thanks.

#8 · January 13, 2019, 7:38 pm

Great! I am happy to hear that everything is working fine! 🙂

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