I upgraded to Role Scoper version 1.0.8 (from version 1.0.4.1) and my Editors lost the ability to approve comments to their posts.  I could get to the listing and click the "Approve" link.  It looked like it attempted to do something, but then put the post back to pending approval status.

When I reverted back to the earlier version of Role Scoper then the Editors could approve comments again.  I didn't do anything other than attempt to upgrade, so I'm not sure where the issue might be.  I don't have anything other than the default permissions for the Editors group and, when I looked, it said Editors could moderate comments.  

I don't have very many plugins activated that might be conflicting, although it's a possiblity.  I wonder what would conflict with approving comments?  Other than Role Scoper, these are the other plugins I have activated:

Akismet
Avatars
HTML in Category Descriptions
ShareThis
Top Level Categories
WordPress.com Stats

Version 1.0.4.1 is working fine for me, though, so I'm content to wait for a solution.

Hi Kevin,

Yup, it contains Post Editor.  The following might be relevant, though… this particular blogger is an Editor for one category and a Contributor for another category.  She entered her blog post and assigned both of those categories to it.  Since Contributors aren't allowed to moderate comments, maybe this is causing a conflict?

Jenifer

I'm just using Category roles defined on the "Category Roles" page with one change to the main Contributor role where I gave them "Upload Files" permissions on the "RS Role Definitions" page.  People are either Post Contributors or Post Editors for a particular category. 

jeniferm said:

Oops, just realized you had asked what her "base wordpress role" is and I didn't answer.  This user is a "Subscriber".

That was the detail I needed.

You can fix this in RS 1.0.8 by editing cap-interceptor_rs.php as follows:

change:

if ( ('moderate_comments' == $required_cap) ) {
  global $scoper_last_post_id;
  if ( ! empty($scoper_last_post_id) )
     return $scoper_last_post_id;
}

to:

		
if ( ('moderate_comments' == $required_cap) && ! empty($_POST['id']) ) {
  if ( $comment = get_comment( $_POST['id'] ) )
     return $comment->comment_post_ID;
}