Topic Tag: Controlling access to front-end content

Problem: I have a custom role that should be able to submit a Form to add or edit a child post, but the parent post options are not shown in the select field in the Form. This was working before a recent update.

Solution: Check your custom code to confirm that redirects set up to block access to the back-end of the site are not applied to admin-ajax.php requests. Add some conditional logic to prevent those redirects as needed, like in the following code example:

/**
 * Block wp-admin access for non-admins (not while doing AJAX, see https://toolset.com/forums/topic/custom-role-no-longer-able-to-perform-same-tasks/)
 */
 function ace_block_wp_admin() {
    if (!current_user_can('edit_users')  &&  ( !defined('DOING_AJAX') || !DOING_AJAX ) ) {
        wp_safe_redirect( '/my-account');
        exit;
    }
 }
 add_action( 'admin_init', 'ace_block_wp_admin' );