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Roles and Capabilities in Custom Post Types

Is there a way to create one role with one capability and apply it to some of the custom post types? What I am doing right now is ending up with applying capabilities to all of the posts.. creating ...
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Create new capability but restrict to specific page

I am using a custom upload box to allow a subscriber to upload their own avatar. currently the upload is failing as subscribers do not have media upload permissions. I do not really want to enable ...
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How to make a plugin appear only to a certain role of user?

I'm using a plugin called "Team Result", to create team results and things like that. It appeared on the dashboard for admin(me). As you can see in this print ...
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Purpose of Adding Capability to Role But Not Grant?

I am attempting to create a custom role upon activation of my plugin. Along with that role, I wanted to add new capability to that role to access later. Now, after reading the Codex, I am totally ...
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pages not found for custom user role

I've created a custom user role for my clients to allow them to manage theme options, and all the other capabilities that the default admin has with the exception of several capabilities that would ...
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Custom role, capabilities, and post type: preview button wrecks things

I'm using the Members plugin to manage capabilities of a custom role that will only be able to edit/publish a custom post type that I created in my functions.php file. After much work, I got this ...
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Limit access to page depending on user level

I've been asked to build a WordPress that limits access to posts with a particular custom post type based on the logged in users level. There will be a number of pre made user roles and they would ...
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Custom post type & role issues

I am having issues with using custom post types and custom user roles. I created a custom post type called Businesses. Then I created capabilities for users of a certain type to be able to add and ...
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Unify the roles and caps?

I installed several plugins(buddypress-docs,achievement,bbpress), each one create capabilities for their own post_type. I would prefer to make all roles and capabilities unified into one system, Is ...
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Check whether user can delete a given post

I have run into this problem where the following piece of code always returns true for any post ID supplied to it. current_user_can('delete_posts', $post_id); Normally, the above code should return ...
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Role that can edit only widgets, not other theme options

How could I make particular role access widgets administration menu (wp-admin/widgets.php), but not access other theme administration menu elements. I have got that far as to display Appearance menu ...
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Best Roles and Capability on a site with review features using a front end custom post

I'm working on a Movie Blog site, I'll be having a movie review for site members and planning to create/install plugin that can create a front-end post/edit using a custom post type for that reviews. ...
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How to hide plugin options for editors via functions.php

I've read the entry Best Collection of Code for your functions.php file, it really help me a lot. I only got a question, is there a way to hide some plugins options (in their respective ...
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What action should I hook into when adding roles and capabilities?

I'm going to be using add_role() and $role->add_cap() to set up a new custom role and attach a new capability to existing roles. I'm wondering where the best place to do this is? Obviously I can do ...
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Using author_can() on custom post types in WordPress

I'm trying to conditionally display some content in a theme using custom roles and capabilities. First, I define a custom role: add_role('free_vendor', 'Free Vendor Listing', array('read', ...
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Roles & capabilities GUI that does not create separate table

After reviewing plugins that deal with user roles and capabilities I concluded that I might be better off just hardcoding my settings into my functions.php file. This actually worked out well for me ...