No authorial fields for Contributors

  • Resolved davereed

    (@davereed)


    4 years, 10 months ago

    Hi Sybre,
    I’m working with a site that has a lot of authors, most of whom are managed as Contributor level users. The authorial fields are not displayed on their profiles for us to add their Twitter and Facebook links as the authors of the posts.

    Can this be added for that user role?

    Thanks. – dave

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  • Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    Hi Dave,

    I’m afraid the capability is limited to users with the publish_posts capability only.

    We can add a filter for this. However, I doubt whether the info will be used when displaying posts of the non-authorial user.

    Nevertheless, I’ve escalated your request into an issue: https://github.com/sybrew/the-seo-framework/issues/519.

    In /inc/classes/profile.class.php you can find two $user->has_cap() calls. If you change their arguments from publish_posts to edit_posts, you may be able to bypass this restriction entirely. But, as always, your changes won’t stick when you update the plugin.

    Thread Starter davereed

    (@davereed)

    Thanks @cybr! I can wait for a future update. It just makes sense to have it since contributors can write articles. We use that role a lot to let writers draft their own articles and then send to editors for finishing.

    Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    Hi Dave!

    In TSF v4.1, Contributors will be allowed to set these fields.
    Next to that, the promised filter constant will be available, as well.

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