Affiliate role and it’s dashboard

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Hi,

We are using the plugin “Affiliates Role” to create affiliate role. With this role the following two scenarios are coming in surface:

Scenario 1: We have created a new user using the Affiliate Registration page in front end. Both “Subscriber” and “Affiliate” role (shown as Subscriber, Affiliate) were assigned to this user automatically. And when we tried to view the WP admin panel (dashboard) of this user we found three Menus – 1) Products (came from WooCommerce plugin. And our developer customize the code to bring this menu in affiliate’s dashboard), 2) Affiliates and 3) Profile. Under the Affiliates menu an affiliate can see a) Affiliates, b) Visits & Referrals, c) Affiliates & Referrals, d) Traffic, e) Referrals, f) Totals, g) Notifications. Unfortunately under the Affiliates menu an affiliate can see all the statistics and records of other affiliates as well!

Scenario 2: We have created a new user as “Subscriber”. Then while we were logged-in to the system as a subscriber we signed up as an affiliate using the Affiliate Registration page in front end. This caused the system to change the role of the user from “Subscriber” to only “Affiliate” automatically. And when we tried to view the WP admin panel (dashboard) of this user we found two Menus – 1) Products and 2) Profile. The “Affiliate” menu was entirely missing this time.

Please advise how to overcome this situation. What is the original purpose of this “Affiliates Role” plugin. What did you intend to allow an affiliate to view and access in its WP dashboard.

Kind regards.

One Response to Affiliate role and it’s dashboard

  1. George February 26, 2018 at 11:33 am #

    Hi enCare,

    Please have a look at Affiliates > Settings, under Permissions section. If you have granted access to Affiliates admin menu there for Subscribers and Affiliates, then your test user normally gets access.
    If your issue still persists, i would recommend you to temporary disable all your plugins apart from Affiliates plugin and try again. I think there is some other plugin that is conflicting and granting access where it shouldn’t.
    Check these and let me know the results please.

    Regarding Affiliates Role, it does what it says, adds another role to your installation with the same access like subscribers.

    Kind regards,
    George

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