capabilities

Have you tried defining the capabilities inside the external_roles_post_type_init() function? After the ‘capability_type’ => array(‘external_role’, ‘external_roles’), try add this ‘capabilities’ => array( ‘publish_posts’ => ‘publish_external_roles’, ‘edit_posts’ => ‘edit_external_roles’, ‘edit_others_posts’ => ‘edit_others_external_roles’, ‘delete_posts’ => ‘delete_external_roles’, ‘delete_others_posts’ => ‘delete_others_external_roles’, ‘read_private_posts’ => ‘read_private_external_roles’, ‘edit_post’ => ‘edit_external_role’, ‘delete_post’ => ‘delete_external_role’, ‘read_post’ => ‘read_external_role’, ), as another argument of the … Read more

You code seems to be correct. Try the following instead. $args = array( ‘labels’ => $labels, ‘public’ => true, ‘publicly_queryable’ => true, ‘show_ui’ => true, ‘query_var’ => true, ‘rewrite’ => true, ‘hierarchical’ => false, ‘menu_position’ => null, ‘supports’ => array(‘title’), ‘capability_type’ => ‘video’ ); Update: You have to do some extra steps before making it … Read more

You will have to do something like this: function hide_buttons() { global $current_screen; if($current_screen->id == ‘edit-post’ && !current_user_can(‘publish_posts’)) { echo ‘<style>.add-new-h2{display: none;}</style>’; } } add_action(‘admin_head’,’hide_buttons’); See: http://erisds.co.uk/wordpress/spotlight-wordpress-admin-menu-remove-add-new-pages-or-posts-link for reference