WordPress Guest Post Admin Access?

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Is there a plugin or function in WordPress for a guest poster to just get admin access to control comments?

Example:

Big Brand X writes a guest post on www.yoursite.com.

Big Brand X wants admin access to approve or delete comments on their guest on www.yoursite.com.

Big Brand X doesn't want access to edit their guest post or any other post on www.yoursite.com, they just want admin access to manage the comments on their guest post.

Is this possible? Thanks for the help!

[BenRWoodard]

An "author" can moderate any comments in the admin area of the posts they have written. Set their role to "Author" and you should be all set.

[SanketPatel]

Hi David,

It is possible for you as guest post to moderate comments of your guest post on www.yoursite.com. Wordpress  administrator gives you a right to moderate our own post, for more information please read this link it will help you more to get a solution of your question.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#delete_posts

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Thank you, Ben and Sanket for taking the time to respond. I looked at the different roles WordPress lets you assign. Unfortunately, the "lowest" role that lets a user moderate comments also lets a user edit other pages and posts, which is rather risky for the person whose letting Big Brand X guest post on their site.

Thanks again for the help, appreciate it.

[BenRWoodard]

Hey David,

I saw the same information in the codex and it is a bit misleading.  An "Author" has moderation control on their own posts but doesn't have "comment moderation" power over the whole site.  Only admins do.

I just tested this out again.  Make sure you go into the top "help" menu on the edit post page and check "comments" and "discussion".

[explorionary]

Thanks, Ben for checking into this. Just so I understand correctly, are you saying that a guest poster who is assigned the role of "Author" can actually moderate comments on their post?

I didn't see that info in the codex. I know that the role of "Editor" does but it looks like an Editor can a lot of other things as well.

[BenRWoodard]

Yes, "Authors" have authority over editing their own content, publishing the post and moderating their own comments.

The Codex is looking at the "universal" control features.  Of which "authors" are very limited.

[explorionary]

Awesome! Exactly the answer I was looking for. Many thanks, Ben, greatly appreciate the  help with this.