You can add your own capabilities for custom post types. The default behvaiour for a post type is to inherit capabilities from the default post post-type. See the capabilities parameter in register_post_type (WordPress Codex), that has more information about how that can be done.
And the correct capability name is edit_posts. So the correct way of using current_user_can will be like following: if( empty( $post_id ) || !current_user_can( ‘edit_posts’ ) ) { return; } UPDATE: I have removed the wrong statement, but as the asker mentioned he would like to allow all roles of contributors and above to be … Read more
Without writing a custom plugin, I think your best bets would be to either: 1) use something like gravity forms and have the user start as subscriber, but then enter request to be a partner (using a GF form). GF can send notifications on forms to admin. Admin then upgrades the user’s role. 2) use … Read more
User queries There is a WP_User_Query, analogous to WP_Query for posts: $wp_user_search = new WP_User_Query( array( ‘role’ => ‘editor’ ) ); $editors = $wp_user_search->get_results(); Usually this returns an array of row objects from the user table: echo ‘<ul>’; foreach ($editors as $editor): echo ‘<li>’.$edtior->display_name.'</li>’; endforeach; echo ‘</ul>’; However you can specify it to instead return … Read more
Selectively applying action based on role
Referring to the Codex entry for this, I suggest using another hook. They use the ‘admin_init’ action: function add_theme_caps() { $role = get_role( ‘author’ ); // gets the author role $role->add_cap( ‘edit_others_posts’ ); // would allow the author to edit others’ posts for current theme only } add_action( ‘admin_init’, ‘add_theme_caps’);
Create a custom walker. Redefine the method start_el() only: function start_el( &$output, $item, $depth, $args ) { if ( ‘Your secret item title’ !== $item->title or current_user_can( ‘administrator’ ) ) { parent::start_el( &$output, $item, $depth, $args ); } } Please mind that this is just pseudo code. I can not give it a test at … Read more
Try the Members Plugin. This will allow you to create a new roles (which you can then assign to the groups) with their own cap or mixture thereof.
I think you need to check if the displayed user has that role, try replacing $user->ID with bp_displayed_user_id(): function my_setup_nav() { if ( user_can( bp_displayed_user_id(), ‘store_owner’ ) ) { // … rest of your code } }
You’re correct in that you should be checking for a capability. However, manage options is only given to administrators by default. You should check against a capability that both editors and administrators have such as delete_others_posts. function restrict_admin(){ //if not administrator, kill WordPress execution and provide a message if ( ! current_user_can( ‘delete_others_posts’ ) ) … Read more