Title: Limited Editor
Author: Gerard Blanco
Published: <strong>March 2, 2023</strong>
Last modified: December 10, 2025

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# Limited Editor

 By [Gerard Blanco](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sixaxis/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/limited-editor.1.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/limited-editor/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/limited-editor/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/limited-editor/#installation)
 * [Development](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/limited-editor/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/limited-editor/)

## Description

The default user roles of WordPress are sufficient for most people, but in some 
cases they give either too many or too few permissions.

This plugin creates a new role called Limited editor. A Limited editor is given 
just the right amount of permissions to create or edit any post or page, even if
it’s not their own, but without being able to delete them or publish any change.
This means that every change is submitted for review and only a regular editor or
administrator can approve and publish the changes. A Limited editor also cannot 
upload media.

The Limited editor role is perfect for users who only need access to the content
itself, such as SEO managers or proofreaders, because a regular Editor can delete
and publish what you may not want, and an Author or Contributor can only edit their
own posts, not those of others.

This is the list of capabilities the Limited Editor role is assigned:
 – `read` –`
read_private_posts` – `read_private_pages` – `edit_private_posts` – `edit_private_pages`–`
edit_posts` – `edit_pages` – `edit_others_posts` – `edit_others_pages` – `edit_published_posts`–`
edit_published_pages` – `unfiltered_html`

The plugin doesn’t affect the performance of the website at all. It just adds a 
new role in the database and that’s it. Not only that, you can easily remove the
plugin after the first activation.

## Installation

 1. Install Limited Editor via the plugin directory, and activate it.
 2. Activate Limited Editor
 3. Remove the plugin. Yes, you can remove it.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Limited Editor” is open source software. The following people have contributed 
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Gerard Blanco ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sixaxis/)

[Translate “Limited Editor” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/limited-editor)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/limited-editor/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/limited-editor/), or 
subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/limited-editor/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/limited-editor/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

### 1.0

 * Initial release

### 1.1

**Release date: 29/10/2024**

 * Fix: Added `unfiltered_html` capability to prevent broken blocks upon saving 
   pages

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **4 months ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.3 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.9.4**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/limited-editor/)
 * Tags
 * [seo editor](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/seo-editor/)[user permissions](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/user-permissions/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/limited-editor/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ Gerard Blanco ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sixaxis/)

## Support

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