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I add new role with WP Members, I also use Publishpress and user role editor For my new role, I want to disable the capability to create posts (built-in not custom post), not only with CSS but the entire capability. My custom role can only edit post I know it's possible, I already see that but I can't find how to do this.
I tried to remove_cap('create_post') but it doesn't work
Could you help me please ?
This is not possible using the capabilities system, the granularity you want does not exist in WP core:
edit_posts
- Since 2.0
- Allows access to Administration Screens options:
- Posts
- Posts > Add New
- Comments
- Comments > Awaiting Moderation
https://wordpress.org/support/article/roles-and-capabilities/#edit_posts
edit_posts covers both viewing, adding, and editing posts, as well as commenting. There is a capability that controls wether you can edit other peoples posts however, but that isn't what you asked for.
Internally, the lowest abstraction before we get to raw SQL is wp_insert_post, which handles both post creation, and post updating. The only difference between creating a post and editing a post is wether a post ID is in the array passed to wp_insert_post ( wp_update_post is just a wrapper around wp_insert_post )
