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  • Resolved Sjeng

    (@sjeng)


    On the documentation page about user roles, it says:

    moderate_comments
    Allows users to moderate comments from the Comments SubPanel (although a user needs the edit_posts Capability in order to access this)

    For moderating comments placed on pages however (that have comments enabled) you also need to have the edit_pages capability it seems.

    Notice that this will only work on posts and pages that the user him/herself created. If you want to give a user the capability to moderate ALL comments, you also need to assign them edit_others_posts/pages!

    I have given the author of a site I made the following capabilities through the “members 0.1.1” plugin:

    delete_posts
    delete_private_posts
    delete_published_posts

    edit_posts
    edit_private_posts
    edit_published_posts

    edit_pages
    edit_private_pages
    edit_published_pages

    moderate_comments
    publish_posts
    manage_links
    read
    read_private_posts
    read_private_pages
    upload_files

    He can now moderate all comments placed on posts and pages that he created (or that I assigned to him).
    As he will be the only person placing new posts on the blog, he won’t need to moderate comments on posts made by others.
    The good thing is, that I’ve made several pages with information, that should remain static. So I assigned those to myself (the admin), so the author cannot change or accidentally delete them. Comments are not allowed on these pages either.
    I did make a “guestbook” page, with comments on obviously, but I assigned this page to be made by him, so he can moderate all comments in his guestbook.

    Just wanted to share that this wouldn’t have worked if you only assign edit_posts to someone who must have moderate_comments capabilities.
    Took some trial and error, so I thought I’d spare others the time and worries. Once you understand how these capabilities work, it’s pretty straightforward.

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