wp.deleteComment, wp.editComment shoud work for authors

[nprasath002]

wp.editComment, wp.deleteComment checks for 'moderate_comments' which authors dont have

[maxcutler]

I think removing the cap check is the wrong approach. Instead of checking 'moderate_comments', it should really just check the 'edit_comment' meta-cap (which takes the comment ID as a parameter).

[nprasath002]

Replying to maxcutler:

I think removing the cap check is the wrong approach. Instead of checking 'moderate_comments', it should really just check the 'edit_comment' meta-cap (which takes the comment ID as a parameter).

Thats what the patch does.

[maxcutler]

Replying to nprasath002:

Thats what the patch does.

Ah yes, you are correct. Trac's patch context didn't show that there's a call to current_user_can( 'edit_comment', $comment_ID ) later in the method.

The error message for that later check should probably be revised to be more accurate, but otherwise I'm +1.

[nprasath002]

A combined patch is submitted in #17981