I would always go for the role “check”. As in your case: if ( current_user_can( ‘vendor’ ) ) { // do stuff } Or of course the distributor role as created by you. This way you can be sure that one is not interfering with the other and you can assign each role to its … Read more
Why are you setting up those custom capabilities then? You’re registering your CPT with custom capabilities, and the first thing I noticed is you still have capability_type set ‘capability_type’ => ‘books’, if anything that should be omitted from the array or at least an empty string if you plan on using custom capabilities (this would … Read more
What you are asking is default behaviour for the author role. So you don’t have to do anything. When an author is in the process of inserting somebody else’s media in his post, it looks like he can edit the properties, but this is only true for that current post. If he changes, for instance, … Read more
you can just define your own capabilities to use this taxonomie ‘manage_terms’ => ‘manage_terms_TAXONOMIE_NAME’, ‘edit_terms’ => ‘edit_terms_TAXONOMIE_NAME’, ‘delete_terms’ => ‘delete_terms_TAXONOMIE_NAME’, ‘assign_terms’ => ‘assign_terms_TAXONOMIE_NAME’, and after you choose wich capabilities you give to your users
There is no built-in capability of create_post. Update: There is a capability create_posts but it’s not well publicised and also has issues surrounding it which I’m afraid I don’t have time to look into at the moment. There are already answers that might help: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3248103 https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/178059/94267 Original answer: There is publish_posts. You need to turn … Read more
admin can not change author profile picture
Why the capability ‘activate_plugins’ is needed to allow a role to see all posts/pages/comments?
capability Each page, there have an item in the Menu of the Back end, have a capability to see the menu item and access this page. If you remove this capability from the role of the user’s, she can’t see and access this page. You can do this via plugin, like ‘Members’ or via custom … Read more
Turns out this plugin was the cause of the issue: View Own Media Posts Only https://wordpress.org/plugins/view-own-posts-media-only/ One disabled, custom capabilities worked as you would expect them to.
It all depends on what exactly you are doing. Method one One site will be the first to register users on. If you are allowing users to register themselves without any plugins this will need to the the main site (e.g. blog 1) for the Network (Multisite) installation. Then you can add the user role … Read more