Title: changing capabilities does not work
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# changing capabilities does not work

 *  [bingjie2680](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bingjie2680/)
 * (@bingjie2680)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-capabilities-does-not-work/)
 * I would like to change the authors capabilities. so I added some code in the 
   function.php:
 *     ```
       $edit_author= get_role('author');
       $edit_author->remove_cap('delete_posts');
       ```
   
 * but this does not really have effect. any suggestions?

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