Title: Authors
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Authors

 *  [gutterboy333](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gutterboy333/)
 * (@gutterboy333)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authors-2/)
 * Hello… I’m just wondering if Authors can just delete their own posts or any posts
   on the blog?
 * Thanks!

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authors-2/#post-1660544)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities](http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities)
 *  Thread Starter [gutterboy333](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gutterboy333/)
 * (@gutterboy333)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authors-2/#post-1660547)
 * Hi…… yeah I already read that page but all it says is:
 *  * delete_posts
    * delete_published_posts * edit_posts * edit_published_posts*
   publish_posts * read * upload_files
 * It doesn’t say what kind of posts.
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authors-2/#post-1660566)
 * if you look at ‘administrator’ for instance, it also says ‘delete_others_posts’
   and ‘edit_others_posts’ etc; from which i deduct that an author can only edit
   and delete his/her own posts.
 *  Thread Starter [gutterboy333](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gutterboy333/)
 * (@gutterboy333)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authors-2/#post-1660568)
 * Ahhh gotcha…. thanks 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [gutterboy333](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gutterboy333/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authors-2/#post-1660568)
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