Title: wp-admin/user-new.php – promote_user capability ?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# wp-admin/user-new.php – promote_user capability ?

 *  [tibodut](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tibodut/)
 * (@tibodut)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-adminuser-newphp-promote_user-capability/)
 * Hello world,
 * After looking on wp-admin/user-new.php, I’m finding that there is a check for‘
   promote_user’ (without final “s”) capability on line 60.
    `if ( ! current_user_can('
   promote_user', $user_details->ID) )`
 * Is this capability is an error (plural ending forgotten) or is it wanted ?
    I
   make the modification on my installation and it works better for me…
 * Sorry for my English and thanks for your future answers,
    Thibaut.
 * PS: the only one mention of promote_user that I found is on this [ticket](http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/14178)

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 *  [David Sader](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsader/)
 * (@dsader)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-adminuser-newphp-promote_user-capability/#post-3884353)
 * ‘promote_users’ is a capability the current user may have while logged in.
    ‘
   promote_user’ is a more specific capability in the context of the user_id the
   current user is promoting.
 * There are several other capabilities that have the same plural or not plural 
   contexts.
 * Look at the ‘case ‘promote_user’:’ instance in function map_meta_cap in capabilities.
   php.
 * In the context of what you have pasted above, it looks fine – not a typo.
 * You say it “works better” with the edits you have made, but what is it you are
   trying to do? There may be a way to do what you intend without edits to core 
   files.
 * I doubt your edits to the core files solves an existing typo error, instead you
   may have created more headaches by editing a core file.

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