Title: [Plugin: OptionTree] Bug? capability manage_options vs edit_theme_options
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: OptionTree] Bug? capability manage_options vs edit_theme_options

 *  Resolved [chocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chocks/)
 * (@chocks)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-optiontree-bug-capability-manage_options-vs-edit_theme_options/)
 * Hi guys, thanks for this plugin, it’s awesome!
 * I’m wondering if this was intentional or not.. I wanted to give the editor permission
   to access the Theme Options and updated the role to edit_theme_options, this 
   didn’t work (although I believe this cap is intended to allow these kind of settings)
   so I added manage_options (which.. ok, seems similar). The last capability worked
   and now the editor is able to see the menu Appearance -> Theme Options, yet he
   can also edit the OptionTree settings! Can we have different capabilities for
   one section and the other? This would give us a lot more flexibility to let other
   users modify settings in a multisite environment for instance.
 * Or if you want to make it super simple for everyone you could may be include 
   a sub menu in settings with the current Roles and have a ‘minimum’ level user
   such as Administrator, Editor, Contributor, etc.
 * Thanks again!
 * Joaquin
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/option-tree/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/option-tree/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Derek Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/valendesigns/)
 * (@valendesigns)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-optiontree-bug-capability-manage_options-vs-edit_theme_options/#post-3129772)
 * In version 2.0.10 the capabilities are set to `edit_theme_options` as others 
   thought it was the correct capability to use, which I don’t disagree with for
   the theme options page but the settings page could have been argued either way
   and after reading your request I’m leaning towards separate capabilities. I think
   I’ll be reverting my change to the settings page in the next release.
 * We can certainly discuss some of your other requests but ultimately my goal is
   to give you as much as possible without going overboard. Altering capabilities
   from within OT seems kind of drastic in that regard, but that’s just my opinion.

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 * Last reply from: [Derek Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/valendesigns/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-optiontree-bug-capability-manage_options-vs-edit_theme_options/#post-3129772)
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