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
$postint|WP_Post
Post ID or post object.
$capabilitystring
Capability name.
$argsmixed
Optional further parameters, typically starting with an object ID.
Return
bool
Whether the post author has the given capability.
Uses · 2
get_post()Retrieves post data given a post ID or post object.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.
5.3.0
Formalized the existing and already documented ...$args parameter by adding it to the function signature.from the docblock
2.9.0
Introduced.from the docblock
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