Title: Contributor Auto Approve Post
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Contributor Auto Approve Post

 *  Resolved [jforinfo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jforinfo/)
 * (@jforinfo)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contributor-auto-approve-post/)
 * Hi everyone..
 * I have problem with my WP 3.1, I accept registration but I want to manually approve
   the post before publish them. But what happened with my wp is the contributor’s
   post is auto published.
 * Any suggestion to hack the wp so the contributor’s post is not auto published?
 * Thanks a lot.

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 *  [Bill Erickson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billerickson/)
 * (@billerickson)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contributor-auto-approve-post/#post-1941882)
 * Have you modified the default roles? As you can see here ( [http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities](http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities))
   by default Contributors can read/edit/delete posts but not publish them.
 *  Thread Starter [jforinfo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jforinfo/)
 * (@jforinfo)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contributor-auto-approve-post/#post-1941885)
 * I have no idea how I modified them.
 *  [Bill Erickson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billerickson/)
 * (@billerickson)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contributor-auto-approve-post/#post-1941887)
 * Are you sure your contributors have the role of “Contributor” and not “Editor”
   or something else?
 * You could install the Roles and Capabilities Plugin to modify the roles. Rather
   than messing with the core WP roles I’d recommend creating a new role named whatever
   you’d like, giving it all the capabilities you want, and then assigning your 
   contributors to this role
 *  Thread Starter [jforinfo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jforinfo/)
 * (@jforinfo)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contributor-auto-approve-post/#post-1942302)
 * Sorry for the long reply.. I reinstall the wordpress. Didn’t know the problem
   cause.
 * Thanks

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 * Last reply from: [jforinfo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jforinfo/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/contributor-auto-approve-post/#post-1942302)
 * Status: resolved

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