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Danielle Phipps
2,861 PointsRandom WordPress User Role Question
I am trying to grant editors access to add and delete users in my WordPress website. I have been looking for code I can put into my functions.php file and have not found anything. I don't want to use a plugin because I already have one that grants access for everything else. If anyone can help me out I would really appreciate it. Thanks!
3 Answers
John Locke
15,479 PointsHi Danielle Phipps :
I'm not sure that you can extend the ability to add and delete users to Editors. You might have to make them Administrators. If anyone knows of a function to the contrary, I hope they can share it with you.
Danielle Phipps
2,861 PointsI know it's possible to do using a plugin. I'm going to keep looking because there has to be a way to do it somehow.
Matt Campbell
9,767 PointsDanielle Phipps, have you seen this?
http://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/
The only other way would be to get into the WordPress engine code and change it. Problem with that is, every time you update WordPress, it'll overwrite the code.