Title: Don't work with Author role
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Don't work with Author role

 *  Resolved [RedfishTheCat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redfishthecat/)
 * (@redfishthecat)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-do-nothing/)
 * Hi,
 * Don’t work on Author role.
    Only on Subcriber and Contributor. :-/

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 *  Thread Starter [RedfishTheCat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redfishthecat/)
 * (@redfishthecat)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-do-nothing/#post-4854662)
 * Find from where come the problem:
 * In the index php, we can find that:
    if ( current_user_can( ‘moderate_comments’))
   return; //They can edit comments anyway, don’t do anything if ( current_user_can(‘
   edit_post’, $post_id ) ) return; //Post author – User can edit comments for the
   post anyway
 * So, Author role can edit post (only own in fact), but it cannot moderate comments
   mostly (he can only do it for is own posts, with all comments in that post, but
   not to others posts).
 * In wordpress logic, author:
    -Have edit_post capability. -Don’t have moderate_comments
   capability.
 * So, Simple Comment Editing so as Author can manage comments, and don’t modify
   is capability.
    And wordpress don’t guive Author capability do modify post. So,
   it’s dont work.
 * I delete this line:
    if ( current_user_can( ‘edit_post’ ) ) return; //They can
   edit comments anyway, don’t do anything And now it work. On others posts, Author
   can now modify is own comment (only) with the plugin. And on in own posts, Author
   can modify (as before) all comments with plugin for is comments, with wordpress
   function for the others comments on this post.
 * Can you modify you plugin ?
    Or next time we make upgrade of your plugin, will
   loose this edit.
 * Thank !
 * With regards
    Redfish
 *  Plugin Author [Ronald Huereca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronalfy/)
 * (@ronalfy)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-do-nothing/#post-4854940)
 * I uncommented the 2 lines for 1.2.0. I’ll leave it there for now unless there
   are a lot of complaints.

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 * Last reply from: [Ronald Huereca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronalfy/)
 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-do-nothing/#post-4854940)
 * Status: resolved