Title: Wrong capability
Last modified: December 26, 2019

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# Wrong capability

 *  [ioannup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ioannup/)
 * (@ioannup)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-capability/)
 * You use add_menu_page function [https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/add_menu_page/](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/add_menu_page/)
   
   which has 4th argument is capability. You set it as `administrator` by default,
   but administrator role doesn’t have `administrator` capability. [https://wordpress.org/support/article/roles-and-capabilities/#administrator](https://wordpress.org/support/article/roles-and-capabilities/#administrator)
   Could you fix it, please?

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 *  Plugin Author [AAM Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vasyltech/)
 * (@vasyltech)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-capability/#post-12271268)
 * [@ioannup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ioannup/),
 * I appreciate your feedback, however, you are mistaken. In WordPress core, role
   slug is also a capability. So if a user has a role `Administrator` assigned, 
   he/she also has `administrator` capability. This work the same way for any role(
   e.g. `Editor` role has also `editor` capability).
 * Regards,
    Vasyl
 *  Thread Starter [ioannup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ioannup/)
 * (@ioannup)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-capability/#post-12271288)
 * Could you send me a link to official source about it?
 *  Thread Starter [ioannup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ioannup/)
 * (@ioannup)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-capability/#post-12271305)
 * What I found is [https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/324768/116973](https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/324768/116973)
   [https://i.imgur.com/My3ieMD.png](https://i.imgur.com/My3ieMD.png)
 *  Thread Starter [ioannup](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ioannup/)
 * (@ioannup)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-capability/#post-12271313)
 * That’s what an official source says
 * > While checking against a role in place of a capability is supported in part,
   > this practice is discouraged as it may produce unreliable results.
 * [https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_user/has_cap/](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_user/has_cap/)

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