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by Cliff Seal 5 (1 reviews)

Editor Theme Options

Allow editors to access theme options in the Appearance menu.

Editor Theme Options ranks #15,406 among WordPress.org plugins with 100+ active installations, is #1,758 of 8,566 in the Customization category, a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews, and was last updated Apr 17, 2014. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 3.9 (Current: 7.1.1)
vtrunk Current Version vtrunk
Updated 12 years ago Last Update on 17 Apr, 2014
Refreshed 9 hours ago Last Refreshed on
#1,758 of 8,566 in Customization Top 25% by installs No update in over a year
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Review 5 out of 5
5 (1 reviews)

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Reviews & Ratings

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

No known vulnerabilities on record for Editor Theme Options. Checked 1 month ago.

TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site administrators who manage the Editor role on client or team sites. It solves the problem of manually adding theme options access to the Editor role in functions.php by granting that capability automatically on activation.

  • Access to Appearance > Widgets
  • Access to Appearance > Menus
  • Access to Appearance > Customize
  • Access to Appearance > Background
  • Access to Appearance > Header
  • Capability added on activation
  • Capability removed on deactivation

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Editor Theme Options

Editor access to widgets and menus is, by far, the most requested change I've had of this nature. I've seen similar sentiments.
Those work, too! They're just quite robust, and this is for a specific role and capability.
It should. Please let me know if it doesn't.
There aren't any filters or anything like that. If you know how to apply_filters, then you can fork the plugin and have it do what you need.

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