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Author’s permissions to manage comments of his own posts

Foliovision › Forums › FV Thoughtful Comments › Troubleshooting › Author’s permissions to manage comments of his own posts

  • JJ 15 years, 2 months ago

    Nice plugin.

    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.

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  • Martin 15 years ago

    Hello JJ,

    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.

    JJ 15 years ago

    I think you’re right. Was playing with the plugin on a sandbox site I’ve got. And at some point, I believe I turned on Role Manager to give authors the moderate comments permission.

    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

    Martin 15 years ago

    Hello JJ,

    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.

    Jonathan Batteas 14 years ago

    Had a couple of questions, as well. It seems those with Author privileges can delete/moderate/etc. for all comments on posts they have authored, but what i was hoping for is the ability to delete any comments that they have made under posts that anyone has authored. Is this possible?

    Then, lastly, If I wanted to re-appropriate the AJAX for deleting a comment and use the same effect to delete a post in the front-end how would i go about that? thank you for the wonderful plugin.

    Alec Kinnear 14 years ago
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    Hi Jonathan,

    You should upgrade your Authors to Editors if you’d like them to be able to edit comments on other posts. Otherwise get in touch with us and we can make a custom mod to enable this for you at a special rate.

    For part two, you will have to dig into the source code and program that yourself. You are firmly in the arena of custom development there.

    Thanks for stopping by.

    Very glad you like Thoughtful Comments. To my mind, Thoughtful Comments may be the most important WordPress plugin out there, at least on the sites we maintain.

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