Title: Author
Last modified: December 20, 2017

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# Author

 *  [jellev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jellev/)
 * (@jellev)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-30/)
 * **author**
    hello, i want to use some authors so they can write some articles.
   but, they can write them, but they can not publish them? so, how can a visitor
   see what the author has been writing?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fauthor-30%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-30/#post-9800194)
 * By default, authors can publish their own posts. Have you ensured that your authors
   have the WordPress r0le “Author” as opposed to “contributor”? Have you reviewed
   [WordPress Roles and Capabilities](https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities)?
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-30/#post-9800205)
 * By default, a person with the role of author can publish posts. See [https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities](https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities)
 * If an author cannot publish on your site, a plugin or theme may have modified
   the capabilities of that role.
 * You can reset the capabilites to match the defaults via wp-cli ([https://developer.wordpress.org/cli/commands/role/reset/](https://developer.wordpress.org/cli/commands/role/reset/))
   or via plugin ([https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/))

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 * [author](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/author/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-30/#post-9800205)
 * Status: not resolved

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