Title: Restrict Write Access
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Restrict Write Access

 *  [-creynolds-aiec](https://wordpress.org/support/users/-creynolds-aiec/)
 * (@-creynolds-aiec)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restrict-write-access/)
 * Is there a way to restrict write access to a specific post or page. So let’s 
   say that our safety department needs access to edit their pages on the site but
   no one else’s. Can this be accomplished with groups. It is super easy with read
   access but I can’t figure out write access.
 * Thanks in advance.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/groups/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/groups/)

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 *  Plugin Author [itthinx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/itthinx/)
 * (@itthinx)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restrict-write-access/#post-4387055)
 * Thanks for the suggestion, it’s not built in and while writing this I think …
   why not? I suppose this should be added right on top of the [@todo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/todo/)
   list for Groups!
 * Currently you could achieve it by maintaining your own table (relating users 
   allowed to write and post IDs) and using Groups’ API to check if the current 
   user belongs to the group or has the right capabilities needed to edit a post.
 * Although this doesn’t cover the exact requirement you outlined, a group allowed
   to fully manage a `Pizza` custom post type would have these capabilities:
 *     ```
       edit_pizzas
       edit_others_pizzas
       publish_pizzas
       edit_published_pizzas
       read_private_pizzas
       delete_pizzas
       delete_private_pizzas
       delete_published_pizzas
       delete_others_pizzas
       edit_private_pizzas
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [-creynolds-aiec](https://wordpress.org/support/users/-creynolds-aiec/)
 * (@-creynolds-aiec)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restrict-write-access/#post-4387084)
 * Hi thanks for the reply. Is this going added or added already in a recent version
   of Groups?
    If not then maybe an eta.
 * Thanks for an awesome plugin.
 * Chris

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 * Last reply from: [-creynolds-aiec](https://wordpress.org/support/users/-creynolds-aiec/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restrict-write-access/#post-4387084)
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