Reply To: Media Buttons Error on front end form

• jaybuys

• February 11, 2016 at 10:04 am

For anyone else stumbling across this post… I just had a very similar issue here. I wanted users with the ‘contributor’ role to be able to submit content and upload images. However, there are ways that you can add/extend capabilities to various users and roles through plugins like User Role Editor or in my case, just some simple code in my functions file…

// Add upload capabilities to contributors
function allow_contributor_uploads() {
	if ( current_user_can('contributor') && !current_user_can('upload_files') ) {
		$contributor = get_role('contributor');
		$contributor->add_cap('upload_files');
	}
}
add_action('admin_init','allow_contributor_uploads');