What’s wrong with “customize” capability ?

Hi,

I am creating an intranet for my company and I needed to grant the customize capability to the Editor role. Not a big expert in custom development on WordPress, I added this to the functions.php of my custom theme.

/**
 * Grants new capabilities to some roles during theme activation
 * Revoke the same capabilities upon theme deactivation
 *
 * @var WP_Role $role_object
 */
add_action('after_switch_theme', function() {
    $role_object = get_role( 'editor' );
    $role_object->add_cap('customize');
});
add_action('switch_theme', function() {
    $role_object = get_role( 'editor' );
    $role_object->remove_cap('customize');
});

Looked good for me but after I reactivated my theme, nothing changed. My editors hadn’t have access to the customize menu.
I tried then with the capability edit_theme_options. It worked, but I don’t want all those options available.

Did I do something wrong ? Does the customize capability require another one ?

Here is the context :
Plugins

• Force Login
• Slack Notifications
• User Access Manager
• Wordfence

The Theme is a child of TwentySeventeen

• This topic was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by aredheldynthelor. Reason: Added some more info