This is customizable on your end. The default publish capability is set to manage_options. If you want to change this to another capability, simply use the filter apple_news_publish_capability.
The same goes for deleting articles. This can be overridden using the filter apple_news_delete_capability.
If you need to learn more about filters or capabilities, please read:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference
https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
The relevant code is located in the plugin source here:
https://github.com/alleyinteractive/apple-news/blob/master/admin/class-admin-apple-post-sync.php
Thread Starter
Loadzz
(@loadzz)
So to allow authors and above role articles to be published auto on Apple News do i add this code to my class-admin-apple-post-sync.php?
add_filter( 'apple_news_publish_capability', function() {
return 'publish_posts';
}, 10, 0 );
or do i change the code like this (below).. ?
public function do_publish( $id, $post ) {
if ( 'publish' != $post->post_status
|| ! in_array( $post->post_type, $this->settings->get( 'post_types' ) )
|| ! current_user_can( apply_filters( 'apple_news_publish_capability', <strong>'publish_posts'</strong> ) ) ) {
return;
}
You should never edit the plugin source because then you won’t be able to automatically update it in the future.
Filter hooks should be added to your theme, such as in functions.php like:
add_filter( 'apple_news_publish_capability', function() {
return 'publish_posts';
} );
Thread Starter
Loadzz
(@loadzz)
Awesome thanks for the tip @bradford Campeau-Laurion
Will try out the filter hook you provided and will let you know how i get on 🙂
Can this be added as a standard feature in future versions rather than having to add to Functions?
