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 working, except the preview button does not work and (what's worse) prevents saving/publishing custom posts.
Everything works fine as long as I do not click the preview button. But when I click the preview button the preview tab does not show any of the changes I've made since the last save. Then when I press the publish/update button, my changes are not saved/published, but are loaded into the preview tab, as if I had pressed preview. Nothing else happens in the browser tab where I'm using WordPress to edit the post, the spinner next to the update/publish button just keeps spinning.
Everything works fine from my admin account, and if I give the custom role the "edit_posts" capability that solves it. So it looks like something is going wrong with the custom capabilities for this role, but I can't figure it out.
Below is my code from functions.php. Thanks for any suggestions.
// Register Custom Post Type
function mnp_custom_post_type() {
$labels = array(
'name' => 'Wiki Pages',
'singular_name' => 'Wiki Page',
'menu_name' => 'Wiki Pages',
'parent_item_colon' => 'Parent Wiki Page:',
'all_items' => 'All Wiki Pages',
'view_item' => 'View Wiki Page',
'add_new_item' => 'Add New Wiki Page',
'add_new' => 'New Wiki Page',
'edit_item' => 'Edit Wiki Page',
'update_item' => 'Update Wiki Page',
'search_items' => 'Search wiki pages',
'not_found' => 'No wiki pages found',
'not_found_in_trash' => 'No wiki pages found in Trash',
);
$rewrite = array(
'slug' => 'wiki',
'with_front' => false,
'pages' => true,
'feeds' => true,
);
$capabilities = array(
'edit_post' => 'edit_wiki_page',
'read_post' => 'read_wiki_page',
'delete_post' => 'delete_wiki_page',
'edit_posts' => 'edit_wiki_pages',
'edit_others_posts' => 'edit_others_wiki_pages',
'publish_posts' => 'publish_wiki_pages',
'read_private_posts' => 'read_private_wiki_pages',
'delete_posts' => 'delete_wiki_pages',
'delete_private_posts' => 'delete_private_wiki_pages',
'delete_published_posts' => 'delete_published_wiki_pages',
'delete_others_posts' => 'delete_others_wiki_pages',
'edit_private_posts' => 'edit_private_wiki_pages',
'edit_published_posts' => 'edit_published_wiki_pages',
);
$args = array(
'label' => 'wiki_page',
'description' => 'Wiki pages',
'labels' => $labels,
'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor', 'revisions', ),
'taxonomies' => array( 'category', 'post_tag' ),
'hierarchical' => false,
'public' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'show_in_menu' => true,
'show_in_nav_menus' => true,
'show_in_admin_bar' => true,
'menu_position' => 25,
'menu_icon' => '',
'can_export' => true,
'has_archive' => true,
'exclude_from_search' => false,
'publicly_queryable' => true,
'rewrite' => $rewrite,
'capabilities' => $capabilities,
);
register_post_type( 'wiki_page', $args );
}
// Hook into the 'init' action
add_action( 'init', 'mnp_custom_post_type', 0 );
// map meta capabilities
add_filter( 'map_meta_cap', 'my_map_meta_cap', 10, 4 );
function my_map_meta_cap( $caps, $cap, $user_id, $args ) {
/* If editing, deleting, or reading a wiki_page, get the post and post type object. */
if ( 'edit_wiki_page' == $cap || 'delete_wiki_page' == $cap || 'read_wiki_page' == $cap ) {
$post = get_post( $args[0] );
$post_type = get_post_type_object( $post->post_type );
/* Set an empty array for the caps. */
$caps = array();
}
/* If editing a wiki_page, assign the required capability. */
if ( 'edit_wiki_page' == $cap ) {
if ( $user_id == $post->post_author )
$caps[] = $post_type->cap->edit_posts;
else
$caps[] = $post_type->cap->edit_others_posts;
}
/* If deleting a wiki_page, assign the required capability. */
elseif ( 'delete_wiki_page' == $cap ) {
if ( $user_id == $post->post_author )
$caps[] = $post_type->cap->delete_posts;
else
$caps[] = $post_type->cap->delete_others_posts;
}
/* If reading a private wiki_page, assign the required capability. */
elseif ( 'read_wiki_page' == $cap ) {
if ( 'private' != $post->post_status )
$caps[] = 'read';
elseif ( $user_id == $post->post_author )
$caps[] = 'read';
else
$caps[] = $post_type->cap->read_private_posts;
}
/* Return the capabilities required by the user. */
return $caps;
}
