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Custom Post Type Capabilities — Enable Edit, Disable Create and Delete

There are a lot of capabilities, you can set for your post type. foreach ( self::$todo_roles as $role ) { $wp_roles->add_cap( $role, ‘edit_’ . self::$post_type_1 ); $wp_roles->add_cap( $role, ‘read_’ . self::$post_type_1 ); $wp_roles->add_cap( $role, ‘delete_’ . self::$post_type_1 ); $wp_roles->add_cap( $role, ‘edit_’ . self::$post_type_1 . ‘s’ ); $wp_roles->add_cap( $role, ‘edit_others_’ . self::$post_type_1 . ‘s’ ); $wp_roles->add_cap( … Read more

how to add custom user capabilities using add_user_meta or something else?

Try passing the value without serializing it manually, because WordPress will do it for you anyway: add_user_meta( $user->id, ‘orewpst_capabilities’, array( ‘author’ => 1 ), true ); or update_user_meta( $user->id, ‘orewpst_capabilities’, array( ‘author’ => 1 ) ); // it will create the meta data for you if it doesn’t exist already. The s:23 means that you … Read more

Add user capability and check against it

I think you are using it right. I think it is actually a bug in WordPress. When you do the same for roles $somerole->add_cap( ‘some_cap’, false );, it works as expected.

How do I fix problems with users not being able to publish and only submit for review after upgrade of Multisites installation?

After a full day of investigating the problem I managed to find the culprit and solve the problem. I localized the problem by following these steps: Create a new blog and give your user admin or editor privileges. In MySQL copy all posts from one of the troubled blogs to the new blog. Now the … Read more

Prevent user creating new users with specific roles

One step is to use the editable_roles filter to remove roles from the dropdown but this doesn’t prevent the user from modifying the select value and create a user with “not allowed” role. Yes it does. This filter is not just for the dropdown. Modifying editable_roles does in fact prevent users from assigning a role … Read more

How to programmatically add a user to a role?

You can do that like this : $my_user = new WP_User( $user_id ); $my_user->set_role( “editor” );

How to assign capabilities to user NOT to User Role

Finally, I’ve figured out a way to do it using WP_user Class. Snippet to add/remove capability to/from specific user – //to remove capability from user $user = new WP_User( $user_id ); $user->remove_cap( ‘can_email’); //to add capability to user $user = new WP_User( $user_id ); $user->add_cap( ‘can_email’); There is special function in capabilities.php in the wp_user … Read more

Role that can edit only widgets, not other theme options

Confirming… Yes, there’s currently (WP 3.4.1) no way to modify the access arguments for admin menu pages. The only one, that you can modify through the public wp API is the »Comments« menu item. All others are registered by hand. But there’s help coming from @scribu (read more at the trac ticket) who has so … Read more

Custom Post Types – Capability Type

I agree with you that the codex isn’t a huge help on this subject. Check out the stuff about capabilities under register_post_type – it needs a serious rewrite. As I understand it, only page and post can be used in the way you suggest (and in fact post is used by default in the absence … Read more

How to set individual capabilities on a taxonomy? Or how to re-register an existing taxonomy?

This should works add_action( ‘init’, ‘register_category_again’, 1 ); function register_category_again() { $user = wp_get_current_user(); if ( $user->roles[0] != ‘your_custom_role’ ) return; global $wp_taxonomies; unset( $wp_taxonomies[‘category’] ); global $wp_rewrite; $rewrite = array( ‘hierarchical’ => true, ‘slug’ => get_option(‘category_base’) ? get_option(‘category_base’) : ‘category’, ‘with_front’ => ! get_option(‘category_base’) || $wp_rewrite->using_index_permalinks(), ‘ep_mask’ => EP_CATEGORIES, ); register_taxonomy( ‘category’, ‘post’, array( … Read more

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