edit comments capability for authors

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I am using wp site where registered users have authors roles.

I want authors to have permissions to edit their own comments. Now only admin user have capability to edit comments and even editors do not have this capability.

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I tried plugins like Role Scoper or Members but they don’t have this capabilities

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  1. The role needs “edit_post” capability to edit comments (the reason beeing that comments are posts for wordpress)
    –> do your authors have “edit_post” capability?
    this enables the role to edit posts also, which might not be desired.

    WordPress capabilites are weird.
    There exists a meta capability ‘edit_comment’, but its not very intuitive. As far as I understand it currently, you can not directly assign it to a user (you can assign “edit_comment” capability, but it seems to be treated as custom created capability and therefore ignored..

    I tried to let my subscribers edit their own comments, but

    $subscriber= get_role('subscriber'); 
$subscriber->add_cap('edit_comment');

    seems to have no effect for me, you can try it for authors but it probably won’t do the trick.
    )

    read this:
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-comment-not-working

  2. You could try with this plugin:
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-comment-editing/
    and then add a little trick to get more editing frame time:

        add_filter( 'sce_comment_time', 'edit_sce_comment_time' );
function edit_sce_comment_time( $time_in_minutes ) {
    return 10; // Here you change the time period after that, the user is not able to edit their comment.
}

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