Returns whether the author of the supplied post has the specified capability.
Description
This function also accepts an ID of an object to check against if the capability is a meta capability. Meta capabilities such as edit_post
and edit_user
are capabilities used by the map_meta_cap()
function to map to primitive capabilities that a user or role has, such as edit_posts
and edit_others_posts
.
Example usage:
author_can( $post, 'edit_posts' );
author_can( $post, 'edit_post', $post->ID );
author_can( $post, 'edit_post_meta', $post->ID, $meta_key );
Parameters
$post
int|WP_Postrequired- Post ID or post object.
$capability
stringrequired- Capability name.
$args
mixedoptional- Optional further parameters, typically starting with an object ID.
Source
function author_can( $post, $capability, ...$args ) {
$post = get_post( $post );
if ( ! $post ) {
return false;
}
$author = get_userdata( $post->post_author );
if ( ! $author ) {
return false;
}
return $author->has_cap( $capability, ...$args );
}
Example