Post settings only showing to admins? Why not Author?

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How can I make the post settings when creating an article to show up also for Author role? I want them to be able to change the post template. This was a last minute surprise as we are planning to go live tomorrow…

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I see this is related to the “publish posts” capability, but I can’t allow that for Authors, because everything needs to go through the editor-in-chief. I would need them to be able to choose from a few post template options though.
Thank you.

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Hello @manuV2!

Install the Members – Membership & User Role Editor Plugin. Check the roles from this plugin, edit the author ones, and enable all the capabilities from posts.

Thank you!

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I already tried this with another plugin – but what capability should I choose? I don’t wan’t the writers to be able to publish the posts, I just want them to see the Post options… There doesn’t seem to be such at thing.

Thank you,
Manu

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Hello @manuv2!

You need to give the publish permission in order to have the post settings there and also the featured video and audio. Otherwise, you must change the permissions in the theme’s functions.php; 102 line. 

Thank you!

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Hello Bettina,

thank you. I think I have to go the functions.php route. However, I would need more information. I’m using a child theme for the Newspaper, so of course the functions.php doesn’t have line 102, it only has the code for the child theme. However, even when I look at the main theme’s line 102 of functions.php, it says

add_theme_support(‘align-full’);

Which doesn’t seem to be the thing to edit here. So what should I edit and how should I include it in the child themes functions.php?

Thank you,
Manu Pärssinen

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Hello @manuv2!

Sorry. The correct file is td_templates_settings.php from td-composer\legacy\common\wp_booster\wp-admin\content-metaboxes from 75 line

Thank you!

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Thank you, got this to work by setting it to anyone who can edit posts.

Have a great autumn,
Manu

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