Preventing Contributors from Editing Sched Posts?

What if you schedule the posts at approval?

That’s essentially what I do.

But the “contributors” can still edit them. It seems they can edit them all along until they are published.

I just ran an experiment with another site… looks like this is indeed the standard behavior. Seems like a really bad idea to have guest authors able to edit things that are past the draft stage.

The closest explanation I can find to fix this is here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3391417/how-can-i-set-wordpress-roles-such-that-once-a-contributors-post-is-scheduled-t

But I don’t understand the PHP. Anyone know what needs to be added to functions.php to accomplish this?

Anyone got a way around this? Seems like a pretty basic problem. I’m surprised WP would allow editing by default here.

I can’t replicate this using Twenty Eleven and the standard Contributor menus. How exactly are Contributors accessing scheduled posts in your tests?

Interesting… so you’re saying this could be theme dependent?

Well,

1) I created a fake contributor level account, wrote a post and submitted for review.
2) Then logged in as admin and scheduled the post
3) Then I logged back in as the contributor and sure enough, I was able to make edits to the scheduled post.

I also tested this on someone else’s site which is far more generic than mine, same results!

Is this *supposed* to happen?

Is this *supposed* to happen?

No. And I couldn’t replicate it using exactly the same steps as you used. My “contributor” cannot even view a scheduled post via Posts-> All Posts. Try:

– deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

– switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

– resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

fascinating… okay, I’ve done it. Went through everything above. My fake contributor user can still edit scheduled posts.

But before I tinker further, hopefully this was clear: The contributor CAN NOT edit just any post. Only the ones for which he is an author. Still, I don’t want this to be possible once something is scheduled.

Is that still abnormal?

How exactly is your test contributors accessing scheduled posts in your tests?

Just logging in. Clicking “posts” and “all posts” and sure enough their post is visible and editable, despite it having been scheduled by the admin.

Whatever it is, it’s specific to your install. I can’t replicate it on any of my test sites.

Okay, wait a minute here.

I just replicated the problem *again* on a totally separate wordpress site. Blank starter site, not a single plugin.

Created a contributor.
Logged in as contributor and posted a post for review
Logged back in as admin and scheduled the post.
Logged in as contributor and sure enough, I can edit away.

I’m starting to think this is actually the default… am I crazy?

Logged in as contributor and posted a post for review

Aha! A contributor can edit their own Posts – irrespective of who scheduled it.
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Roles_and_Capabilities#Contributor

Yup. That’s what I was afraid of.

Seems like a bad idea, no?

Um – not sure. I understand what you mean but I do think it’s one of those pov issues. The only thing I can suggest if you want to get some serious eyes on this is to post it in Trac as a potential bug.