[Resolved] Delete Users of only lower role

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[Ian]

I have created a user role of "Manager" based on editor.

Under permissions I want to grant them the ability to delete users. This works fine but a manager is able to delete any admin or editor.

Is there a way to restrict the Manager to only delete users of roles lesser than their own?

[Minesh]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

Well - at this point you need to check user capabilities and based on that you can allow/deny the deletion and add your logic. Indeed - this requires custom programming and let me admit that that is eventually beyond the scope of our support policy.

Still - I can show you the way that might help you to achieve your goal. Please check following solution:
=> https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/188863/how-to-allow-an-user-role-to-create-a-new-user-under-a-role-which-lower-than-his

If you need custom programming for your project - please feel free to contact our certified partners.
=> https://toolset.com/consultant/

[Ian]

Thanks that should be fairly straight forward.

This would probably be worth exploring as an update to Access

• many people use it to modify administrative roles
• being able to delete users of a higher role is a security issue

sub checkboxes under "remove_users" would be an ideal interface for those who don't code.

Thanks again.

-Ian