Title: question about user levels Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # question about user levels * [jbickers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbickers/) * (@jbickers) * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-user-levels/) * Is there any documentation that specifies what users can do at each level? I only want to allow certain people to be able to post new entries – what should their level be? J. Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/) * (@carthik) * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-user-levels/#post-48714) * Zero. Level 1 is the minimum to create a new post. * [skippy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skippy/) * (@skippy) * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-user-levels/#post-48719) * You can specify what level can do what by editing wp-admin/menu.txt: 1 post. php Write 1 edit.php Edit 3 categories.php Categories 5 link-manager.php Links 3 users.php Users 6 options-general.php Options 8 plugins.php Plugins 4 templates. php Templates 5 upload.php Upload 0 profile.php My Profile *** * [onenationunderdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/onenationunderdog/) * (@onenationunderdog) * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-user-levels/#post-49072) * menu.txt has become menu.php * i edited the values for write and edit, changing it from user level 1 to 2. * the result is that those menu options disappear for users level 1 and below. however this does nothing to change their permissions; they can still post and edit — in fact the admin screen defaults to write new post so nothing is hidden. * i have seen many posts asking how to customize user levels for 1.2 … i too would love to figure this out. even the ability to remove edit and write privileges from user level 1 would be most useful — yielding ‘some place to go above 0’ for restricted post read access (ala viewlevel plugin), etc. * if anybody knows how to customize level permissions please post a link or the code required. * thx * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-user-levels/#post-49073) * “Is there any documentation that specifies what users can do at each level?” [http://codex.wordpress.org/User_Levels](http://codex.wordpress.org/User_Levels) * [onenationunderdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/onenationunderdog/) * (@onenationunderdog) * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-user-levels/#post-49074) * er, not sure how the codex page is supposed to help but thanks…. * an hour or too of searching and i found a few helpful posts, partic the first: * Reworking Author Rights for Level 1 [http://wordpress.org/support/4/10605](http://wordpress.org/support/4/10605) * Hack: edit/delete post by author only [http://wordpress.org/support/10/9882](http://wordpress.org/support/10/9882) * Only registerd users can see links [http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=19026](http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=19026) * Category restrictions [http://wordpress.org/support/3/7427](http://wordpress.org/support/3/7427) * wordpress.org posts mentioning ‘viewlevel’ [http://tinyurl.com/4vokq](http://tinyurl.com/4vokq) * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-user-levels/#post-49075) * I was answering the original poster’s first question: * Q: “Is there any documentation that specifies what users can do at each level?” * A: [http://codex.wordpress.org/User_Levels](http://codex.wordpress.org/User_Levels) * [onenationunderdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/onenationunderdog/) * (@onenationunderdog) * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-user-levels/#post-49076) * oh cool, sorry about that. * a couple more links on the topic of user level restrictions: * fantastic-looking group of plugins [http://www.wellardsworld.com/archives/category/wordpress/hacks/](http://www.wellardsworld.com/archives/category/wordpress/hacks/) * only registered users can comment hack [http://www.michaeltangen.com/comments_hack.txt](http://www.michaeltangen.com/comments_hack.txt) * code snippets, etc from skippy [http://wordpress.org/support/3/6290](http://wordpress.org/support/3/6290) * and of course, plugins: restriction [http://wiki.wordpress.org/?pagename=Plugin#restriction](http://wiki.wordpress.org/?pagename=Plugin#restriction) * [Shelby DeNike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdenike/) * (@sdenike) * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-user-levels/#post-49080) * If you check out this link I have found the files that must be edited to disallow posting my level 0 and level 1 and it seems to work well with the View Level Hack [http://shelby.7pounds.net/archives/2005/01/21/disallow-posting-by-members](http://shelby.7pounds.net/archives/2005/01/21/disallow-posting-by-members) Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘question about user levels’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 8 replies * 6 participants * Last reply from: [Shelby DeNike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdenike/) * Last activity: [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-user-levels/#post-49080) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics