Title: User Role
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# User Role

 *  [jpresley23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpresley23/)
 * (@jpresley23)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-role-4/)
 * I couldn’t find an answer, but it looks like only Administrators, at least on
   multisite, are able to use Simply Exclude. Is there a setting or a way for Editors
   to also use Simply Exclude? If not, is there a way to make that a feature request?
   If we make the change on our own, is there a way to push the change to the project?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-exclude/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-exclude/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Paul Menard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pmenard/)
 * (@pmenard)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-role-4/#post-5188798)
 * [@jpresley23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpresley23/),
 * Like most other plugins the settings for Simply Exclude are only available to
   users who have the ‘manage_options’ [capability](http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities).
 * At this time there are no plans to provide access to non-admin users. I guess
   I’m having trouble seeing the user-case for non-admins to be able to set rules
   to show/hide categories. If you can provide some details on your need I might
   consider it.
 * You other option is to use a role capability plugin [http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#Resources](http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#Resources)
   to alter the default capability for your Editor user. Though be warned this will
   enable other access you probably do not need.
 *  Thread Starter [jpresley23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpresley23/)
 * (@jpresley23)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-role-4/#post-5188812)
 * We run a multisite instance. The site that uses your plugin has multiple authors
   and editors. Our workflow is for an editor to either enter or edit articles and
   select whether the article should be excluded from the front/home page based 
   upon direction from the site administrator. It is easier to do it this way than
   to have an editor enter the article and then have the site admin go in and check
   the box to exclude the article from the front/home.
 * We don’t need to give anyone other than the site admin access to the settings.
   We just need access to the meta box in the Edit screen. We do not want to give
   our Editors and Authors access to manage options. Ideally we would have a setting
   within the Simply Exclude options which would allow us to set the user role that
   has access to the meta box in the Edit Screen.
 *  Plugin Author [Paul Menard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pmenard/)
 * (@pmenard)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-role-4/#post-5188816)
 * [@jpresley23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpresley23/),
 * Ok. I understand the need. So this is just the metabox on the individual post
   form. I’ll see what I can come up with.
 * Do you think this just just ben enabled for all users by WP role (Editor, Author,
   etc). Or do you see a need to have this controllable down to specific users within
   that WP Role?
 *  Thread Starter [jpresley23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpresley23/)
 * (@jpresley23)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-role-4/#post-5188888)
 * We just need it for all users for a specific role. If we need finer grain control,
   we would just create our own user roles.

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 * Last reply from: [jpresley23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpresley23/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-role-4/#post-5188888)
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