Title: Editor save theme Options
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Editor save theme Options

 *  [Tammy Hart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tammyhart/)
 * (@tammyhart)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editor-save-theme-options/)
 * I’ve created a theme options page, that works great as an administrator, but 
   when logged in as an editor, it messes up.
 * I have the add_theme_page capability set to “edit_theme_options”, but it didn’t
   show the page to my editor user. So I manually added that capability to the editor
   role and then it only added the appearance top menu. Clicking that gave me a 
   blank themes.php, but no options page. I can manually type in the address to 
   the theme options page and it goes to it, but it gives me the “Cheatin’ Uh” die
   message when i try to save the settings. I can only get it to save the settings
   if I add_cap(‘manage_options’) to the editor role. This is not the solution I’m
   looking for, obviously.
 * I know it’s specific to my theme because I changed the theme to Twenty Eleven
   and the editor had access to everything and couls ave options, no problem.

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 *  [silverks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silverks/)
 * (@silverks)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editor-save-theme-options/#post-2460785)
 * You’ll have to add a filter to allow users with ‘edit_theme_options’ capability
   to save theme options.
 * See the fix in core:
    [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14365](http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14365)
 * And its implementation in TwentyEleven:
    [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/17987](http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/17987)

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 * [editor role](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/editor-role/)
 * [options.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/options-php/)

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 * Last reply from: [silverks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silverks/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editor-save-theme-options/#post-2460785)
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