we just released a new version of the plugin which allows authors to manage comment bellow their own articles. You can simply upgrade the plugin in wp-admin menus.

It uses the same checking mechanism as Wordpress – current_user_can(‘edit_post’, $post->ID) (which by the way doesn’t sound so good, but that’s how is Wordpress checking the permissions for comment moderation in wp-admin section).

Thanks,
M.

seems like your plugin could be modified rather easily to do a check on a logged in user.
Something like…
IF post-author-id == logged-in-userid THEN display moderation tools

no, it’s not like that. Users with author user role are not able to delete comments on any blog post via the front end with our plugin.

On the other hand, they are not able to do so even on their own posts, so that could be considered as a missing feature.

What other plugins are you using if you experienced the problem you describe?

Thank you for your input.
M.

WP users set up in the Author role should only be able to moderate comments on the posts that they write. In the WP backend, Authors can see all comments listed but can only take action on the comments on your post.

Enabling this plugin allows someone with an author user role to delete comments on any blog post via the front end. Seems like this would be a bug.

thank you for your feedback.

I’ve checked on your site and this appears to be a theme related issue. That’s how your template is handling the replies. So it needs to be fixed in the template.

However we are up to find a solution for this – creating a unified yet good looking plugin solution which would do a nice AJAX reply forms for the comments and would work with all the themes. Maybe it could just take control of the whole comments display mechanism – same thing Threaded Comments plugin does – but introducing some more features.

M.