Wordpress - Allow Editors To Manage Theme Widgets

Question

Is it possible to grant Editors the ability to manage theme widgets? By default, only Administrators can do so.

Thanks, Jon

Answer 1

If you don't want to use a plugin, you can also add this to your functions.php or somewhere similar.

$role = get_role('editor');
$role->add_cap('edit_theme_options');

Answer 2

I'm afraid you're going to need to use a plugin to achieve this, since changing Widgets is a switch_themes capability not available to Editors. You need a plugin that changes roles and capabilities (like Capability Manager). Check a similiar topic about this issue in Wordpress Forums.