Title: Author view link issue
Last modified: September 19, 2023

---

# Author view link issue

 *  [Tom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tommaso76/)
 * (@tommaso76)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-view-link-issue/)
 * Hi all, I have a strange problem: I noticed that users with “author” permissions
   do not have the “view” link active within the posts screen page in the backend….
   so these users cannot view the posts of other WordPress users.
   Can you help me
   understand where the issue is?Thank you very much!Tom

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-view-link-issue/#post-17066969)
 * All users should have “read” capability and thus be able to view posts, assuming
   they can access the posts list table to start with. The view links are only visible
   on hover. They still are not visible even on hover? Have user roles and capabilities
   been altered in any way? You can use one of the roles and capabilities plugins
   to check. I use “Members”, but nearly any should do.
 * If capabilities are OK, it could be your theme or a plugin has corrupted the 
   CSS that manages the hover effect. Try switching to a default theme and deactivating
   all plugins. Authors should now be able to see the view links on hover. Isolate
   the cause be restoring your theme and plugins one at a time, testing after each,
   until the problem returns.
 *  Thread Starter [Tom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tommaso76/)
 * (@tommaso76)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-view-link-issue/#post-17068801)
 * [@bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/) Thanks very much for
   the reply.
   I inspected the code and there is no trace of the “view” link… I was
   hoping it was hidden via CSS, but it isn’t.I used this code to check author capabilities:
   if ( is_admin() ) { var_dump(get_role( ‘author’ )->capabilities); }
 * the result is:
   array(15) { [“upload_files”]=> bool(true) [“edit_posts”]=> bool(
   true) [“edit_published_posts”]=> bool(true) [“publish_posts”]=> bool(true) [“
   read”]=> bool(true) [“level_2”]=> bool(true) [“level_1”]=> bool(true) [“level_0”]
   => bool(true) [“delete_posts”]=> bool(true) [“delete_published_posts”]=> bool(
   true) [“read_nc_reference”]=> bool(true) [“read_private_nc_references”]=> bool(
   true) [“edit_nc_references”]=> bool(true) [“edit_nc_reference”]=> bool(true) [“
   edit_published_nc_references”]=> bool(true)}
    -  This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by [Tom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tommaso76/).
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-view-link-issue/#post-17069515)
 * No view links when using a default theme and no active plugins? That should not
   be. Your WP installation might be corrupted, you may need to refresh the files
   by performing a [manual update](https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/updating-wordpress/#manual-update),
   even if it’s to the same version.

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

The topic ‘Author view link issue’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

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

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-view-link-issue/#post-17069515)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics