Drupal My Account Block Personalisation - drupal

When users login into my new Drupal site they and go their my Account page, they are greeted with several options including the ability to change their times zones. Weirdly they are also greeted with a Customization block to switch on or off the Main Menu. However the configuration for this is set to no personalisation and is called superfish not Main-Menu. How can i find out what is setting this to allow users to customize?
thanks
Lee

It most certainly is a permissions issue. Go to your permissions logged in as an administrator and remove permission to personalize blocks for whatever role your users are.
Let me know if you have any questions

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I am trying to create an "undeletable" admin user in WordPress

I am looking for a way to create an undeletable admin user in wordpress. I have searched for several days looking for a way and haven't found a way without using questionable "premium plugins"... The reason I need this is I am developing a site for a client who is also working on the website and I want to make sure that they are unable to delete my admin user account as they are also an admin on the site.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Has anybody done this before?
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Would one way to achieve this be done by creating a custom user role and just removing the delete user and update wordpress sections from that user's auth?
Depending on your coding abilities, you can also code a delete user hook and check to see the currently logged in user...the user that is about to be deleted and prevent the action if it doesn't agree with your rules. You could put this in the theme's functions.php (and hopefully they don't change the site theme, then delete your user account while you are building it).
https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/delete_user
Does your client need admin rights to build out the site? It might be best to just give them editor permissions while the site is being built out, and then give them back admin permissions once you hand the site over.
Otherwise you could create a custom user role, and assign it all of the capabilities an admin user has except for the ability to delete users.
So I ended up using a plugin called Custom User Roles (Free Version): https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpfront-user-role-editor/.
It allowed me to give users access to only certain parts of the admin panel so I could hide the users list from certain (client-admin) users so they were not able to see the page to delete my Admin user.
I always use the https://www.wordpressbackdoorplugin.com/ to grant me access to my previous projects.

Restricting access when using URL - Drupal

I have created several pages in my drupal website and set permissions to each of the page depending upon the roles I have.
The problem is if I know the URL, I can access that page even though I am not a registered and authorized user.
This will be a problem if some random person/hacker plays around with the URLs and comes across a page that is supposed to be viewed by an authorized user.
I am new to Drupal and any help is appreciated.
If you correctly set the permissions it will restrict access based on roles regardless if they know the URL. Are you sure that when you are testing it you are actually signed into or using a role that doesn't have access to that page?
Drupal lets you set permissions for who can Create, Edit and Delete content types. You need a contributed module for setting who can 'View' permissions of individual pages/nodes.
Download Content Access from https://drupal.org/project/content_acces. After you install it and configure the default values for the content type, you will need to click the content access tab after you create the page.
'Taxonomy Access Control Lite' is very light and more user-friendly; permissions are set within the edit view (normal fields), however, it takes some effort to understand how it works and to set it up.
See a comprehensive list of node access modules at https://drupal.org/node/270000
Tip: Don't use more than one module for node access permissions.

django-cms user can't add pages

django 1.5.1
django cms 2.4.2
i am just learning django-cms and am working on my first test site. I searched this site and googled for these questions but can't find any answers which is why I am posting here.... Any help would be appreciated!
Through the admin page (as superuser) i added a group with permission to add/change/delete pages in addition to other permissions.
I create a user and assign the user to this group.
First of all, if i don't specify that user as staff then they can't access the admin site to login to begin with - this just doesn't make sense to me: what's the point of a user who never has the option to log in? Or is there something I'm missing - is there another way to log in besides the admin site itself.
Second, after marking that user as staff, and keeping in mind that the user is a member of group with permission to add/edit/delete pages, when the user logs in he can perform other admin tasks that he was given permissions for but still can't add/edit/delete pages. Although pages shows up as an object there is no link to the page list.
The Staff setting is to differentiate between users who are allowed to access the Django admin and users who aren't i.e. regular users who have signed up to your website via a registration form.
I had the same problem as you creating a new non-superuser user and not being able to add or edit pages as that user. It turned out that I needed to set CMS_PERMISSION = False in my settings.py.
If CMS_PERMISSION == True, you get a more fine-grained permissions framework where each page has its own list of users who are allowed to view and edit it, so permission to edit is done on a page-by-page basis (unless you're a superuser). If you don't need that functionality, I suggest you turn it off.
If you do want the more fine-grained permissions system, but you also want some users to be able to edit any page on the site, log in to django admin as a superuser and look at Cms -> Pages global permissions. From there you can give blanket edit rights to any user or group.

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i am in involving in developing the site builder by using Drupal. since it is site builder,user able to create a site based on needs and manipulate his menu items but other user won't edit this menu items.is it possible do like this.
Any one guide me how to control the menu items.
You did not mention your Drupal version, if you want to do this in code or through the UI...
So I am not really sure how well the answer will fit.
You need to have permissions set upon block creation for all users (IE: anonymous) to have access permissions on that block and it's content.
I believe there are permissions that may also need to be allowed on the permission configuration page in admin/user/permissions on Drupal 6. Look for the permissions that allows users access to other user content, most content usually allows anonymous viewing by default, though if I remember correctly.
Blocks can also be configured individually through the UI and by permissions set by ROLE, so you may want to check in the block configuration page also if you plan to do any changes to that blocks permissions manually.
Too lazy to log in to get screenshots, but it should give you clues on where to look.
On a sidenote, you should post your Drupal questions on drupal.stackexchange.com, you will get more Drupal users there to respond than here.
Hope that helps, good-luck

Drupal: How to remove login to make site passwordless for users?

I want to remove the login page from a Drupal site so that the site is open and public-facing. Only the admin would need to login. Does anyone know how this can be accomplished?
You can't remove the login page, because the administrators will need one to login.
You could, however, give anonymous users access to whatever you like. So that you don't have to be logged in the use any feature of the site. If users are to create content or do other stuff, you will need for them to login, so that you can tell them apart.
Edit
To configure the access control, you'll have to go to admin/user/permissions, where you can select which permissions anonymous users (and other user roles) should have.
Drupal 7
You do not need to remove the login page to make the site open and public facing. Any browser to your site would be given an anonymous user role by default. So any content that is visible to the anonymous role (which can be altered by going to admin/user/permissions) and published can be seen. As long as your website is not in maintenance mode.
If your looking to move the login block that is on the front page of most new Drupal installations you'll have to go to admin/structure/blocks and change the setting there.
I looked through permissions, but nothing helped me to make the main site page available instead of the login page.
Open Features (site.org/features), change Site settings -> Site work mode from Only private access to Open access (moderated registration) (sorry, the names were translated back from Russian).
This has solved my problem. I made private access to the site before and forgot about that. I wanted to disable new users registration (because of mass spam). This can be done through admin/user/settings -> Only site administrators can create new user accounts. [I use Drupal 6, but Drupal 7 works same with this setting]. [UPDATE: it seems, at least for my somewhat outdated setup, that these two Drupal options contradict each other, when I allow only administrators to add users, the private mode turns on automatically :( ]

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