How to change an editor’s capabilities?

  • Resolved thekelpie

    (@thekelpie)


    18 years, 4 months ago

    I’m the administrator of a blog and am trying to set someone else up as an editor. I want them to be able to write and manage posts, pages and categories but not be able to alter the presentation. So far so good… but I’d also like the editor (not me) to be notified by email when someone posts a comment so that they can moderate it. This seems only to be possible for the administrator – is there a way to allow someone with an editor role to do this instead? I think from reading around that the old User Level 6 would have been perfect.

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  • Try the Role Manager Plugin:
    https://redalt.com/wiki/Role+Manager
    Very flexible.

    Thread Starter thekelpie

    (@thekelpie)

    Role Manager plugin works brilliantly, thanks for that.

    I’m also using the category order plugin and would like the editor to be able to use it too, but there doesn’t seem to be an option to allow this. Is there another way of making the plugin available to the editor? I guess I need to edit the category order plugin directly but I’m not very familiar with PHP.

    Thread Starter thekelpie

    (@thekelpie)

    Okay, I now think I need to add the line:

    add_filter('capabilities_list', array(&$this, 'capabilities_list'));

    to the Category Order plugin, as well as:

    function capabilities_list($caplist)
    {
    $caplist[] = 'category_order';
    return $caplist;

    I’m not sure exactly where to put the code. Can anyone please help?

    Thread Starter thekelpie

    (@thekelpie)

    I’ve now realised I can make the other user an administrator and limit her individual capabilities through Users > Authors & Users > Edit. Plugins such as category_order are then available to her.

    Seems to be the cleanest solution and avoids messing with code.

    Brilliant – I’m happy to see this post and replies.

    I had the same exact question – how to allow an editor to recieve the moderation emails.

    IMO, that’s a small lapse – should have been a default ability of an editor – if one conceptualizes the editor role as being able to manage the day-to-day running of the site, and overseeing the content.

    Umm… actually, I’m confused. I don’t see any capability that equates to “receiving comment notification emails”. The editor already has the “Moderate Comments” capability.

    Did you really solve the problem with this plugin?

    Maybe one tack would be to add a whole new user type – a “super-administrator” that would effectively be what an administration is now. And the current administrator would be used as an editor.

    umdenken,
    did you ever find a solution for sending a moderation email to the Editor role when a comment request is made? Like you, I fail to see how the role manager plugin fixes this problem.

    thx,

    T

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