The user with HBook role is redirected to the front-end

🤔 Problem

I have created a new WordPress User with a HBook role. However, when logging in, this user is redirected to the front-end. He does not have access to the WordPress admin.

🌱 Solution

The roles HBook adds are based on WordPress “Subscriber” role, and they don't add any other default WordPress capabilities than the “read” capability. Some themes redirect users with “read” only capability to the front-end.

Here is what you can do to tackle this:

1. Firstly, you might wish to check if you have an option to disable that in your theme options.

2. You can use User Role Editor plugin to add capabilities to the roles created by HBook.

3. If you prefer not to use a 3rd party plugin, you can use HBook filters, as we provide a filter for each role. Please refer to this section of our documentation.

HBook adds 4 roles : Reservation reader, Reservation manager, Pricing manager and HBook manager. Please check this article to see what the admin look like for each role.