Title: change capability
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# change capability

 *  Resolved [lenningrl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lenningrl/)
 * (@lenningrl)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-capability/)
 * I found that the solution mentioned of adding a filter to change the capability
   needed to access hidden fields did not work for me unless a value was returned
   by a function. So here’s what I put in my functions.php that worked to change
   the capability in the way that I needed:
 * function change_capability ($param) {
 * return ‘bp_moderate’;
    } add_filter( ‘bp_admin_only_profile_fields_cap’, ‘change_capability’);
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-admin-only-profile-fields/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-admin-only-profile-fields/)

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 *  Plugin Author [A5hleyRich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/a5hleyrich/)
 * (@a5hleyrich)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-capability/#post-5867453)
 * Good spot. The FAQ section has been updated with a correct example.
 * Thanks,
 * Ashley

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 * Last reply from: [A5hleyRich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/a5hleyrich/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-capability/#post-5867453)
 * Status: resolved