Show development theme preview to other logged in users

hidalgo · 2024-12-06 03:13:02

The development theme function is wonderful for working on changes, but where I get stuck each time is when I’ve finished development theme changes and would like to present the preview to logged in users (e.g. Clients) for approval, prior to making it public.

Currently it appears to be limited to:

‘users with sufficient privileges [initially Publisher and Designer roles] can safely develop and preview a new theme while all other users will still see the old theme (until the new one is deployed)’.

My clients only have ‘Staff Writer’ access, but it appears the preview function is hard coded in to Publisher and Designer roles. I’ve tried adjusting ‘Privs’ in smd_user_manager but there appears to be no preference or function for development theme previews to other users?

How does everyone else work around this?

Bloke · 2024-12-06 06:32:42

hidalgo wrote #338428:

there appears to be no preference or function for development theme previews to other users?

Weird. You should see skin.preview as an editable priv level. Even though it is added late, it should still be picked up by the plugin.

Failing that, for now, you can edit lib/admin_config.php and change the default privs right at the bottom of the file to 1,2,3,6 but the plugin would be the better route if you can get it to work.

hidalgo · 2024-12-06 08:00:15

Bloke wrote #338429:

Weird. You should see skin.preview as an editable priv level. Even though it is added late, it should still be picked up by the plugin.

Thanks for this information, I did see skin.preview, but adding this priv to a group doesn’t appear to make any difference in my testing? (It’s also not checked by default for the designer group so thought I was on the wrong track.)

And yes, would prefer not to edit the core file.

etc · 2024-12-06 08:32:11

Was the user (recently) logged-in while testing?

It actually looks like you need to edit the global $txp_options at some early step too, because level 3 users have no access to enable_dev_preview pref.

I don’t remember why these pluggable privs have to be so complicated.

Bloke · 2024-12-06 10:36:03

etc wrote #338431:

I don’t remember why these pluggable privs have to be so complicated.

Haha, because none of us have got round to making them better yet. I did have plans to add a couple of tables to the database for linking privs and roles to user accounts. Did a load of work on it in a long-lost branch somewhere but never completed it, for reasons I now can’t recall.

In any case, this particular priv is more complex because it’s behind a pref so can’t be set immediately like the rest.

etc · 2024-12-06 15:38:07

Bloke wrote #338432:

In any case, this particular priv is more complex because it’s behind a pref so can’t be set immediately like the rest.

And the pref can not be set because it’s behind some other permissions. Cute!

Anyway, now that plugins are so easy to compile, you can try this one. If enabled, it should give (unconditional) access to dev preview to every logged in user, except freelancers.

# Name: abc_devpreview v0.1
# Type: Public site only plugin
# No description
# Author: Oleg Loukianov
# URL: http://localhost/textpattern/
# Recommended load order: 5

# .....................................................................
# This is a plugin for Textpattern CMS - https://textpattern.com/
# To install: textpattern > admin > plugins
# Paste the following text into the 'Install plugin' box:
# .....................................................................

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hidalgo · 2024-12-07 23:45:22

etc wrote #338437:

Anyway, now that plugins are so easy to compile, you can try this one. If enabled, it should give (unconditional) access to dev preview to every logged in user, except freelancers.

Oh excellent! I’ve just tested this and it works perfectly, just what I’ve been trying to do, thank you so much!

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