Title: roles restrict
Last modified: September 11, 2018

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# roles restrict

 *  Resolved [obivankeen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/obivankeen/)
 * (@obivankeen)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/roles-restrict/)
 * need the ability to amend the users role settings.
    can i restrict contributor
   from deleting my tables?

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 *  [Andy Keith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andykeith/)
 * (@andykeith)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/roles-restrict/#post-10679009)
 * Hi,
 * You would need to remove the edit_posts capability to do that, which probably
   isn’t what you want as they could no longer write or edit posts. There isn’t 
   a separate capability for the tables as the shortcodes form part of the post/
   page content.

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