Contributor can’t edit their posts
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Hopefully someone can help me out…
I created a new post, then changed the author from myself to a contributor (one I created) on the blog so they could update/amend it. I then tried to edit it as the contributor, the only place I could find an edit link is on the front page of the dashboard in the recent updates list, but when clicked it says I do not have permission to edit it.
So I created a draft as the contributor, logged in as admin and published it, but still the contributor cannot edit it when clicking edit.
The other thing that surprised me is that the contributor cannot edit their posts from the ‘manage’ page, is this normal?
Any help appreciated.
Thanks.
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This describes what “normal” is. http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/12/what-are-the-different-roles/
I think you’ll have to send staff a feedback on this. -
Agreed on that one. Contributors should be able to edit posts.
I’m wondering though that since it wasn’t originally created by the contributor account though is the issue even if it’s been assign to that account.
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Yeh I wondered that too, so I created a new draft post as the contributor, then approved it as admin, then returned as the contributor but still no joy :( I only get edit links by posts that have been created by the contributor or that have had the author changed manually to the contributor, so its got the right idea…its just not letting me!
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This problem is still unresolved…have sent an email to the support guys but just wondered if anyone else has experienced this issue.
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several place such as:
… and …
http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#edit_pages
… show a contributer as being able to edit their own posts — but I as well can’t get this to work.
This plugin, however, resolves this very nicely — and I think should ultimately be part of the default WP toolset:
[Link removed – drmike]
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I know it says it in the faq but seems to me that contributors should not be able to change their posts once they are published. They contribute to the blog and ask a moderator (the admin or the editor) to approve of their new post. Once it’s published I would think they cannot edit it…what would be the purpose of splitting the author and contributor roles. Contributors could then change the post to anything they want.
You may want to make them authors instead, but only if you trust them. Otherwise you have to moderate every post contributors ask to post.
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For reference and to prevent confusion – Plug-ins can be and are used on wordpress.org blogs. WordPress.com blogs run on different software and plug-ins cannot be used on wordpress.com blogs.
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Its ok, think I’ve sorted it…
I haven’t tried to make someone a contributor since, but I made someone an Editor and they haven’t had any problems.
I think it was because I was creating a ‘test’ contributor, but I had to invite them to WordPress first. Sent invite, went to my emails, signed up and then verified my email address. I think I was still logged in as admin, so when I clicked the email link to verify, it was defaulting to a page on my admin account instead of verifying the new account.
Signing out before following the email links sorted it.
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I’m having this same issue with a contributor right now. I added my sister to my blog (http://maiapapaya.wordpress.com) as a contributor.. I invited her and she used the invite link to register for WordPress. Then she made some posts, which were approved by me, and she wants to edit one of them, but can’t.. seems to be exactly the same issue. Why hasn’t this been resolved? Weird and annoying that the roles don’t behave as they’re supposed to. I’ll send feedback, but just wanted to bump this in case anyone else is still having this issue.
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It has been. As it was stated, a contributor can contribute, but must be approved by an admin. Once something is published to the blog, it can’t be changed by someone with the role of contributor. Otherwise, it would be pointless to have an admin approve it. If you want a user to be able to contribute, but then edit later, you have to use the EDITOR or possibly AUTHOR (this is probably the one) role.
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From the FAQs http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/12/what-are-the-different-roles/
What are the different roles?There are four roles: Administrator, Editor, Author, and Contributor.
Here is what they can do:
Administrator
The Admin can do everything. Complete power over posts, comments, settings, theme choice, import, users – the whole shebang. Nothing is off-limits.
Editor
They can publish any posts, edit any posts, edit any published posts, edit any pages, moderate comments, manage categories, manage links and upload files. They can also delete any posts and any pages. They can read, edit and delete private posts.
Author
Is able to edit their posts, publish their posts and upload files. And they can delete their posts too.
Contributor
They can edit their posts but cannot publish.
Advice
Be careful what roles you give people, especially if you want them to be an Editor or joint Administrator. Promoting someone is easy – removing a role is much harder. -
abbydonkrafts – Your response absolutely contradicts what’s written in the FAQ, as was pasted here by timethief.
timethief – Yes, I searched the FAQ for “contributor” and yes I read exactly what you pasted, which says: “Contributor: They can edit their posts but cannot publish.” Which sounds to me like they can edit their posts.
Maybe it’s a wording issue in the FAQ? Maybe role of contributor should say “They can write posts, but cannot publish them and cannot edit them once they’re published.” This would fit more accurately with what abbydonkrafts says.
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It’s probably a wording issue, as in they can edit drafts. Or maybe the original idea for Contributor is to be able to edit published posts, but then was decided against (for obvious reasons) or the ability was removed later, but the documentation wasn’t changed to reflect it.
Have you tried Author? That sounds like the user can work with their own posts, but not the others. Editors can alter other users’ posts, so you probably don’t want that one.
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Yeah, I’m just going to up them to author. Thanks guys. They should change the wording in the FAQ…
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@maiapapaya
If you would like to suggest a wording change to the FAQs you can send in a feedback suggesting this once support is open again.
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