Title: [Plugin: Redirection] User capability for administration
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Redirection] User capability for administration

 *  [Simon Blackbourn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lumpysimon/)
 * (@lumpysimon)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-redirection-user-capability-for-administration/)
 * Hi
 * Great plugin thanks!
 * I’ve got one request: is it possible that the ability to add redirects could 
   be done by checking for a capability, rather than checking for the ‘administrator’
   role as at present?
 * This is considered the best practice way of doing it, and would allow me to give
   a site editor permission to set redirects without having to give them the administrator
   role.
 * If there was a custom capability (say “edit_redirects”) that would be perfect.
 * Many thanks
    Simon
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/)

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 * Last reply from: [Simon Blackbourn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lumpysimon/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-redirection-user-capability-for-administration/)
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