Administrator role capabilities

Question

I need to make that administrator could'nt manage options, but it is not working...

My code:

function set_capabilities() {
     $editor = get_role( 'administrator' );
     $editor = remove_cap('manage_options');
}
add_action( 'admin_init', 'set_capabilities' );

What I do wrong ?

Answer 1

you're creating a function and just initializing a local scope variable that you overwrite it.

here is a different approach:

global $wp_roles; // global class wp-includes/capabilities.php
$wp_roles->remove_cap( 'administrator', 'manage_options' );

_based on codex:remove_cap_

Edit:

/**
* Remove capability from admins.
*/
function wpcodex_set_capabilities() {

    // Get the role object.
    $admin = get_role( 'administrator' );
    $admin->remove_cap( 'manage_options' );
}
add_action( 'init', 'wpcodex_set_capabilities' );

Answer 2

There's 2 different ways you can do this:

Add either of these code snippets to your child themes functions file.

function set_capabilities() {
     $role = get_role( 'administrator' );
     $role = remove_cap('manage_options');
}
add_action( 'init', 'set_capabilities' );

Or you could also use this:

function set_admin_capabilities(){

global $wp_roles;
$wp_roles->remove_cap( 'administrator', 'manage_options' );
    }
add_action( 'init', 'set_admin_capabilities' );