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1. wildkyo
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi guys!

   I've tried to get working the Edit Comment Capability with WordPress 3.1 Beta 1 but I can't. As I understand Contributors now can Edit Comments so if you put the edit_comment_link() function then Contributors must see the link to edit his comments. But it doesn't!

   Anyway I tried to add the capability manually but I've the same result.

   if (current_user_can('contributor')
   add_action('admin_init', 'allow_contributor_comments');

   function allow_contributor_comments() {
   $contributor = get_role('contributor');
   $contributor->add_cap('edit_comment');
   }

   So, is this option available? Anyone can please give me a hand on this?

2. Andrew Nacin
   WordPress Dev
   Posted 1 year ago #

   This simply won't work.

   edit_comment is a meta capability. It gets re-mapped to another meta capability, edit_post (which may change depending on the post type), which is then mapped to the primitive capabilities (what users and roles have).

   For a contributor to moderate any comment means that you need to let them edit all posts.

   Or, you can just drop a filter on map_meta_cap() to do this. (No role modifications needed, except to also give them the moderate_comments cap.)

   It would look something like this (wholly untested):

   function nacin_contributors_can_moderate_comments( $caps, $cap ) {
      if ( $cap == 'edit_comment' )
        $caps = array( 'edit_posts' );
      return $caps;
   }
   add_filter( 'map_meta_cap', 'nacin_contributors_can_moderate_comments', 10, 2 );

3. wildkyo
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Oh hell... I misunderstood it. Thanks for the explanation! I thought that this new capability allow users to edit their own comments but I see that I was wrong. I don't understand why WordPress doesn't have yet this capability like "edit_own_comments" or something similar.

   Thank you very much for your reply and explanation!

4. Andrew Nacin
   WordPress Dev
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Ultimately, we can't change the way core currently works, such that authors can moderate comments on their own posts. But we can make it easier for plugins to modify it.

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