joerga

I have the exact same problem. I solved it by this code in my functions.php:

if ( current_user_can('subscriber') && !current_user_can('upload_files') )
add_action('admin_init', 'allow_subscriber_uploads');
function allow_subscriber_uploads() {
	$subscriber = get_role('subscriber');
	$subscriber->add_cap('upload_files');		
}

That worked as I wanted it but it is still not possible to upload images in the frontend. I still get the error “Sorry, you are not allowed to attach files to this post.”.

Uploading in the backend works fine but I want it to be as easy as possible for my users so I need this feature in the frontend too.

I get it that it is a problem with the roles so I already tried this after a lot of google research:

if ( current_user_can('subscriber') && !current_user_can('upload_files') )
add_action('admin_init', 'allow_subscriber_uploads');
function allow_subscriber_uploads() {
	$subscriber = get_role('subscriber');
	$subscriber->add_cap('upload_files');
	$subscriber->add_cap('edit_attachments');
	$subscriber->add_cap('edit_posts');
	$subscriber->add_cap('edit_published_pages');
	$subscriber->add_cap('edit_others_pages');
	$subscriber->add_cap('edit_others_posts');
	$subscriber->add_cap('level_0');
	$subscriber->add_cap('level_1');		
}

But it still doesn’t work and I think that’s way too much roles.

Any suggestions what to do?

• This reply was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by joerga.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by joerga.