Title: [Plugin: Front-end Editor] Editors role cannot edit widgets
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Front-end Editor] Editors role cannot edit widgets

 *  Resolved [swingarody](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swingarody/)
 * (@swingarody)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-editors-role-cannot-edit-widgets/)
 * Hi there,
 * I installed this plugin specifically for clients who aren’t tech savvy so they
   don’t have to go to backend, but the editor role doesn’t allow them to edit the
   widgets like an admin. the “edit” option doesn’t even show up.
 * Page edits work fine.
    Can you please show me how to resolve this? Cheers.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/front-end-editor/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/front-end-editor/)

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 *  Plugin Author [scribu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribu/)
 * (@scribu)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-editors-role-cannot-edit-widgets/#post-2206619)
 * You need to give the editor role the edit_theme_options [capability](http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities).
 * This can be done with a plugin, such as [Capability Manager](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/capsman/).
 *  Thread Starter [swingarody](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swingarody/)
 * (@swingarody)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-editors-role-cannot-edit-widgets/#post-2206641)
 * thanks,
    You’re a legend. I have another question though. When I go to edit the
   HTML widgets, it keeps adding extra `<br>` tags on the lines.. is there a way
   to disable that?
 *  Plugin Author [scribu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribu/)
 * (@scribu)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-editors-role-cannot-edit-widgets/#post-2206644)
 * Hm… create a HTML widget from WP Admin with some content (A).
 * Open the same widget for editing on the front-end and click Save, without changing
   anything.
 * Go back to WP Admin and see what the content looks like now (B).
 * Paste both states of the content (A) and (B) here.
 *  Thread Starter [swingarody](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swingarody/)
 * (@swingarody)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-editors-role-cannot-edit-widgets/#post-2206663)
 * Ah, I just figured it out.
 * When you type in the edit box from front-end, the output looks like this:
    `text
   <br>more text<br>bla bla bla`
 * But if you type code in html, every new line gets translated into br lines. so
   this:
 *     ```
       text<br>
       more text<br>
       bla bla bla
       ```
   
 * becomes this:
 *     ```
       text<br><br>
       more text<br><br>
       bla bla bla
       ```
   
 * So if I want to edit from Admin > Widgets page, I need to wrap the text in <p
   > tags and make sure it’s on one line, like this:
 *     ```
       <p>text<br>more text<br>bla bla bla</p>
       ```
   

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 * Last reply from: [swingarody](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swingarody/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-editors-role-cannot-edit-widgets/#post-2206663)
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