Title: Preventing Users Self Publishing?
Last modified: September 18, 2022

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# Preventing Users Self Publishing?

 *  [LukeW.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lukewill/)
 * (@lukewill)
 * [3 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preventing-users-self-publishing/)
 * I’m currently using a capabilities plugin to limit publishing of articles to 
   Editors only so authors have to submit for review.
 * However is there either a code insertion, or plugin, I can use to prevent editors
   publishing their own articles? It’d be nice to have them submit for review as
   well when they’re writing, as everyone is prone to typos and it’s always good
   to have a fresh set of eyes on an article.
 * Ideally something that let’s them edit/publish others articles, and have to submit
   their own.
 * Any help would be much appreciated!
    -  This topic was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
      Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Developing with WordPress
      topic

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [3 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preventing-users-self-publishing/#post-16024220)
 * You could remove an editor’s publish_posts capability, but then they couldn’t
   approve others. Unless you can find a plugin that already does this, you would
   need a custom coded solution. It’s not overly complex. Use the ‘wp_insert_post_data’
   filter. If the post author is the current user and not an admin, and the intended
   status is “publish”, change the status to “pending”.

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 * Last activity: [3 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preventing-users-self-publishing/#post-16024220)
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