Title: user_can_edit_post
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: April 28, 2025

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# user_can_edit_post( int $user_id, int $post_id, int $blog_id = 1 ): bool

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/user_can_edit_post/?output_format=md#description)
    - [See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/user_can_edit_post/?output_format=md#see-also)
 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/user_can_edit_post/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/user_can_edit_post/?output_format=md#return)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/user_can_edit_post/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/user_can_edit_post/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/user_can_edit_post/?output_format=md#changelog)

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This function has been deprecated since 2.0.0. Use [current_user_can()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/current_user_can/)
instead.

Whether user can edit a post.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/user_can_edit_post/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

### 󠀁[See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/user_can_edit_post/?output_format=md#see-also)󠁿

 * [current_user_can()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/current_user_can/)

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/user_can_edit_post/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$user_id`intrequired

`$post_id`intrequired

`$blog_id`intoptional

Not Used

Default:`1`

## 󠀁[Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/user_can_edit_post/?output_format=md#return)󠁿

 bool

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/user_can_edit_post/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    function user_can_edit_post($user_id, $post_id, $blog_id = 1) {
    	_deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '2.0.0', 'current_user_can()' );

    	$author_data = get_userdata($user_id);
    	$post = get_post($post_id);
    	$post_author_data = get_userdata($post->post_author);

    	if ( (($user_id == $post_author_data->ID) && !($post->post_status == 'publish' && $author_data->user_level < 2))
    			|| ($author_data->user_level > $post_author_data->user_level)
    			|| ($author_data->user_level >= 10) ) {
    		return true;
    	} else {
    		return false;
    	}
    }
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/deprecated.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/deprecated.php#L244)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/deprecated.php#L244-L258)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/user_can_edit_post/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Uses | Description | 
| [get_userdata()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_userdata/)`wp-includes/pluggable.php` |

Retrieves user info by user ID.

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| [_deprecated_function()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/_deprecated_function/)`wp-includes/functions.php` |

Marks a function as deprecated and inform when it has been used.

  | 
| [get_post()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_post/)`wp-includes/post.php` |

Retrieves post data given a post ID or post object.

  |

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| Used by | Description | 
| [user_can_delete_post()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/user_can_delete_post/)`wp-includes/deprecated.php` |

Whether user can delete a post.

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| [user_can_edit_post_date()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/user_can_edit_post_date/)`wp-includes/deprecated.php` |

Whether user can delete a post.

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| [user_can_edit_post_comments()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/user_can_edit_post_comments/)`wp-includes/deprecated.php` |

Whether user can delete a post.

  |

## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/user_can_edit_post/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [2.0.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/2.0.0/) | Deprecated. Use [current_user_can()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/current_user_can/)  | 
| [1.5.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/1.5.0/) | Introduced. |

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