Title: Whitelist by user capability
Last modified: March 27, 2019

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# Whitelist by user capability

 *  [fariazz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fariazz/)
 * (@fariazz)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/whitelist-by-user-capability/)
 * Are there any plans to add the ability to whitelist users based on a specific
   role or capability? currently the only option is to whitelist the site’s admin,
   but we would also like to whitelist say an editor or other users who have certain
   credentials.

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 *  Thread Starter [fariazz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fariazz/)
 * (@fariazz)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/whitelist-by-user-capability/#post-11359938)
 * Or if it can be done via hooks, that would be amazing.
 *  Plugin Support [Jelena](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmisic/)
 * (@jmisic)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/whitelist-by-user-capability/#post-11361796)
 * Hi,
 * We’re always listening, and if something makes good sense, we’ll do it. 🙂
 * Thanks for the suggestion. It’s been added to our list of requests.
 * Cheers!
 *  Thread Starter [fariazz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fariazz/)
 * (@fariazz)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/whitelist-by-user-capability/#post-11364539)
 * Thanks for your reply Jelena! Hope it eventually makes it to the product.
 * We write articles on programming, and some articles contain SQL queries, so Shield
   flags some of this content as attacks. If we could whitelist our authors that
   would make our life a bit easier.
 *  Plugin Support [Jelena](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmisic/)
 * (@jmisic)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/whitelist-by-user-capability/#post-11365497)
 * There’s no problem at all.
 * This is a very good suggestion, thanks for that. We’ll work on it.
 * Regards and have a nice day. 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [Jelena](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmisic/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/whitelist-by-user-capability/#post-11365497)
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