Title: cannot restrict editing capabilities
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# cannot restrict editing capabilities

 *  [outtareach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/outtareach/)
 * (@outtareach)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-restrict-editing-capabilities/)
 * what does this plugin do? I wanted to restrict widget editing for specific editors
   but this seems to just hide plugins from users. can it do what Im asking? If 
   so how?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/restrict-widgets/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/restrict-widgets/)

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## Tags

 * [editing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/editing/)
 * [restrict](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/restrict/)
 * [users](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/users/)

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 * Last reply from: [outtareach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/outtareach/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-restrict-editing-capabilities/)
 * Status: not resolved