{"id":887,"date":"2012-11-13T14:09:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T22:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/?p=887"},"modified":"2012-11-13T14:09:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T22:09:45","slug":"wordpress-allowing-contributors-to-upload-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/13\/wordpress-allowing-contributors-to-upload-media\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress: Allowing contributors to upload media"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is the simplest way I found to allow for contributors to upload media on your WordPress blog:<\/div>\n
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Add this to the functions.php file in your current theme:<\/div>\n
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if ( current_user_can('contributor') && !current_user_can('upload_files') )<\/div>\n
add_action('admin_init', 'allow_contributor_uploads');<\/div>\n
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function allow_contributor_uploads() {<\/div>\n
$contributor = get_role('contributor');<\/div>\n
$contributor->add_cap('upload_files');<\/div>\n
}<\/div>\n
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source: http:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/allow-contributor-to-upload-media<\/div>\n
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  This is the simplest way I found to allow for contributors to upload media on your WordPress blog:   Add this to the functions.php file in your current theme:       if ( current_user_can('contributor') && !current_user_can('upload_files') ) add_action('admin_init', 'allow_contributor_uploads');   function allow_contributor_uploads() { $contributor = get_role('contributor'); $contributor->add_cap('upload_files'); }… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}