Title: Granting Editor access
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Granting Editor access

 *  [stinkysGTI](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stinkysgti/)
 * (@stinkysgti)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/granting-editor-access/)
 * I wanted to allow Editors to use the plugin. I tried adding this to the functions.
   php file:
 *     ```
       add_action( 'admin_menu', 'seo_menu' );
       function seo_menu() {
       	global $current_user;
   
       	$user_roles = $current_user->roles;
       	$user_role = array_shift($user_roles);
   
       	if($user_role == 'editor'){
       		add_menu_page( $user_role, $user_role, 10, 'seo', 'seo_options', '/wp-content/plugins/seo-ultimate/plugin/img/icon.png' );
       	}
       }
       ```
   
 * It worked for me when I changed the if operator from ‘==’ to ‘!=’, but not the
   Editor. So that led me to believe it’s within the plugin. I found this line at
   1707:
    `add_utility_page(__('SEO Ultimate', 'seo-ultimate'), __('SEO', 'seo-ultimate').
   $main_count_code, 'manage_options', 'seo', array(), 'div');`
 * Is there a way I can edit it to display and be used by Editors?
 * Thank you
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 * Last activity: [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/granting-editor-access/)
 * Status: not resolved