Title: Role manager
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Role manager

 *  [morgue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/morgue/)
 * (@morgue)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/role-manager/)
 * I just got role manager from [http://redalt.com/Resources/Plugins/Role+Manager](http://redalt.com/Resources/Plugins/Role+Manager)
   
   I extracted the zip and created a folder in my website plugins folder called 
   role manager, under my cpanel I activated it.
 * How exactly do I manager it?
 * All I want to do is to have writers have something like ‘send for approval’ on
   their posts so then an admin can approve it and publish it, i.e. writers shouldn’t
   have a publish post option.

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/role-manager/#post-546262)
 * Don’t know that you need the Role Manager plugin for that.
 * If you make a user a Contributer then the posts they save will be saved as ‘drafts’
   then your Administrators and Editors can publish those ‘Other’s drafts’.
 * Note–more up to date Role Manager plugin:
 * [http://www.im-web-gefunden.de/wordpress-plugins/role-manager/](http://www.im-web-gefunden.de/wordpress-plugins/role-manager/)
 *  Thread Starter [morgue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/morgue/)
 * (@morgue)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/role-manager/#post-546265)
 * Yeah but in that case, how would the admin know that a post is ready to be published?
   That’s why I wanted something like “Send for approval”
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/role-manager/#post-546266)
 * Consider creating a Category for that, then the Admin would change the Category
   and Publish the post.
 *  Thread Starter [morgue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/morgue/)
 * (@morgue)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/role-manager/#post-546269)
 * That’s a nice workaround, however, the category would display on the ‘category
   list’ and if people clicked on it they would get a page with no posts on it.
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/role-manager/#post-546272)
 * Exclude that category from the list.
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Exclude_Posts_From_Some_Category](http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Exclude_Posts_From_Some_Category)
 *  Thread Starter [morgue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/morgue/)
 * (@morgue)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/role-manager/#post-546274)
 * Exactly in which file do you I need to paste that code into?
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/role-manager/#post-546275)
 * Depends on where you are displaying your Categories but typically that would 
   be your Theme’s sidebar.php file.
 * Additional resources:
    [Template_Hierarchy](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy)
   [Stepping_Into_Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templates)
 *  Thread Starter [morgue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/morgue/)
 * (@morgue)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/role-manager/#post-546301)
 * I pasted it but it didn’t work, it displayed all the posts I had made =\
 * I pasted replacing
    <?php wp_list_cats(‘sort_column=name&optioncount=1&hierarchical
   =0’); ?>
 * Any suggestions?
 * I thought role manager would help since on some posts I saw when searched for
   this, people were mentioning it… what’s role manager for then?
 *  Thread Starter [morgue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/morgue/)
 * (@morgue)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/role-manager/#post-546323)
 * Any suggestions? I haven’t been able to figure this out.
 *  [rudolf45](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rudolf45/)
 * (@rudolf45)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/role-manager/#post-546332)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_cats#Categories_With_Excludes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_cats#Categories_With_Excludes)
 *  Thread Starter [morgue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/morgue/)
 * (@morgue)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/role-manager/#post-546335)
 * That one worked, thanks rudolf45!

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