How to enable featured image for Contributors?

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John
#91153
Jan 26, 2016 at 8:58 pm

I see that the featured video is enabled for a contributor but not featured image. How can I enable the featured image also for a contributor?

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nf_prt
#91169
Jan 27, 2016 at 1:26 am

Hi,

it’s related to wordpress roles, to see the featured image box the user has to have the capatibility to upload files and contributors don’t have that.

You either change your users to authors or you let contributors upload. To do the last one, you can use a plugin like capability manager or insert some code in theme’s functions.php

You might want to consider things like max upload size, or do you want contributors see images from other contributors or above.

Hope this helps, cheers!

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Alin [tagDiv]
#91304
Jan 27, 2016 at 2:24 pm

Hi,

Contributor role don’t have upload_files capability and therefore don’t have access to set the feature image of the post. To allow them to do it, you’ll need to install a plugin for role editing and add that capability to the contributor role. We did not tested any plugin for user’s role, but you can try one like Members and see how it works or something similar.

Thanks!

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