Author can only see own post comment and can moderate
The default author role does not have the moderate_comments capabilities so you need to add that capability to the author role, so add this to your plugin: function add_theme_caps() { $role = get_role( ‘author’ ); // gets the author role $role->add_cap( ‘moderate_comments’ ); // would allow the author to moderate comments } add_action( ‘admin_init’, ‘add_theme_caps’);