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title: Access to the MetaSlider Admin Area
description: "By default, only users in the \"Administrator\" and \"Editor\" roles are able to access the MetaSlider admin area. --- ## Control Access to MetaSlider Access to MetaSlider is controlled by the edit_others_posts capability. You can control who has access to…"
url: "https://www.metaslider.com/docs/metaslider_capability/"
updated: "2023-09-28"
category: Slideshow FAQs
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# Access to the MetaSlider Admin Area

By default, only users in the "Administrator" and "Editor" roles are able to access the MetaSlider admin area.

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## Control Access to MetaSlider

Access to MetaSlider is controlled by the edit_others_posts capability. You can control who has access to this by using [the PublishPress Capabilities plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/capability-manager-enhanced/).

- Go to "Capabilities" in your WordPress admin area.
- Choose the role you want to modify.
- Check the box for "Edit others".
- Click "Save changes".

![](https://www.metaslider.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/edit-others-posts-1024x341.png)

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## Create a New Capability for MetaSlider Access

It is possible to modify the capability required to use MetaSlider. In the example below we’ve created a custom capability called `metaslider_use`. Add this code your site's functions.php file.

```
/**
 * You can change this to a different capability by pasting the code below into
 * your themes functions.php file.
 *
 */
function metaslider_change_required_role($capability) {
    return 'metaslider_use'; // this is the ID of a custom capability added using User Role Editor
}
add_filter('metaslider_capability', 'metaslider_change_required_role');
```

Once this capability has been created, you can use [the PublishPress Capabilities plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/capability-manager-enhanced/) to it add it to user roles.

- Go to "Capabilities" in your WordPress admin area.
- Choose the role you want to modify.
- Enter your capabilities into the "Add Capability" box.
- Click "Save changes".
- This capability can now be give to user roles.

![Add a capability using PublishPress Capabilities](https://www.metaslider.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/metaslider_use-1024x344.png)