By default, a user with the ‘author’role can edit any comment made on any of his own posts. This is alright when you only have a handful of trusted authors.
In most cases though, you will want to allow authors to only edit their own comments. Here is a little snippet that achieves that (requires WordPress 3.1 or newer):
If you want to prevent authors from editing even their own comments, just remove this line from above:
if ( $comment->user_id != $user_id )
Libby says: Where should I insert this code to work? Thanks
Libby says: Thanks a lot :) Its working fine. Just what I nedded :)
Libby says: Do you also know how can I disable quick edit for posts (for authors or for all users, it doesn’t matter)?
Problem is that autors can add tags in quick edit, I don’t want this.
pete says: Hiya… sorry but this is a bit OT here but i’m after a way/plugin that only the author and commenter can see their own comments. Commenter A can’t see commenters B comments, or any replies to his comments for that matters (unless they’re comments from A)
The following will just remove links from the screen, but don’t forget to add above restrict_comment_editing snippet also.
add_filter('comment_row_actions', array(&$this, 'remove_comment_edit'), 1, 2);
public function remove_comment_edit($actions, $comment)
{
$user_id = get_current_user_id();
if ($comment->user_id != $user_id) {
unset($actions['edit']);
unset($actions['quickedit']);
}
return $actions;
}
Thanks Milos!
I had a new $actions but needed to delete ALL normal actions for use in a plugin admin page, your code helped me along.
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03 08 2010
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