Title: Hack/plugin to adjust User Levels capabilities?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Hack/plugin to adjust User Levels capabilities?

 *  [3stripe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3stripe/)
 * (@3stripe)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hackplugin-to-adjust-user-levels-capabilities/)
 * Hello folks!
 * I want to adjust the way that certain user levels work, but can’t find any plugins
   that do what I want…
 * For example, would it be possible to change WordPress so that Level 5 users:
 * 1. CAN edit stories by other users
    2. Could NOT see the ‘Links’ section 3. Do
   NOT see ‘Advanced’ options when writing a post, even if this is the selected 
   option in options-writing.php. (I need this because I’m using the meta image 
   plugin from [http://no.oneslistening.com/151](http://no.oneslistening.com/151))
 * Would this be hard?!
 * Cheers,
 * 3stripe

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 *  Thread Starter [3stripe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3stripe/)
 * (@3stripe)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hackplugin-to-adjust-user-levels-capabilities/#post-294967)
 * Thinking more about point 3:
 * You could write a plugin to find $user_level and then change the CSS for Level
   5 users to hide the div containing the ‘Advanced’ options ????
 * This poses the problem that the ‘Advanced’ options div doesn’t have a unique 
   id… another hack required!
 * Not sure if this would work as I’ve never done any mods like this…
 *  [McShelby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcshelby/)
 * (@mcshelby)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hackplugin-to-adjust-user-levels-capabilities/#post-294985)
 * Because the user level implementation will change totally in the upcoming version
   of WP, I guess there will be not much intention by the plugin writers to write
   such a plugin from scratch now. I am not aware of any plugin doing this right
   now.
 *  Thread Starter [3stripe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3stripe/)
 * (@3stripe)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hackplugin-to-adjust-user-levels-capabilities/#post-295298)
 * Ok I worked out point 1, which means point 2 can be ignored 🙂
 * My hack to allow users of level ‘xx’ to edit any other user’s posts… use with
   caution…
 * Line 354 of functions-post.php:
 * Change this :
    `|| ($author_data->user_level >= 10) ) {`
 * To:
    `|| ($author_data->user_level >= xx) ) {`
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hackplugin-to-adjust-user-levels-capabilities/#post-295404)
 * See comment from hallsey about the above fix:
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/52097#post-285417](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/52097#post-285417)
 *  Thread Starter [3stripe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3stripe/)
 * (@3stripe)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hackplugin-to-adjust-user-levels-capabilities/#post-295416)
 * Haha well I tried my best, maybe Smultron gave me the wrong line number. It worked
   for me anyhow, the fix is even easier!
 * (So guys, that shoulda been line 353, not 354)

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