Don’t know of a hack or tweak but I can tell you the development team is working on a massive overhaul of the ‘user levels’ that should address your issues. You can read about this on the wp-hackers email list at:
http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2005-July/001707.html
yes, i read that too on the wp-hackers list; is there any other way to change user levels besides switching to unstable-cvs version of wordpress? or is there any semi-stable previous version?
i found a solution which i wanted to post here if anyone has the same needs:
edit wp-includes/functions-post.php and change line 353 from
|| ($author_data->user_level > $post_author_data->user_level)
to
|| ($author_data->user_level >= $post_author_data->user_level)
this makes postings editable for users of the same levels.
I made this change and it works fine – users on levels 5 and above can edit posts made by other users on their own level. What I’m wondering is if there is a way to make it so that they can edit in this manner just for the Pages and not for the posts?
Thanks parasew. I had to use your code to implement this, because I want all my Level 3 editors to be able to edit each other.
–Dg
OK, problem:
I did the hack parasew said, above. Now User Level 3 can click “EDIT” on other User Level 3.
But then when the editor clicks “SAVE” changes, we get the error message: “You cannot post as this user.”
I don’t want to change the name of the person posting! I just want to have another peer of their same User Level who can help a friend by correcting a mistake in a post, not to take ownership of that post. Any ideas?
