[wp-hackers] Custom post type capabilities, but needs 'edit_posts' as well?

[Alex Hempton-Smith]

As far as I can tell from here (
http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#Author), the
'manage_finances' cap has the same access to the post type as an author
would do?

-- Alex  (Hempsworth)


On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Alex Hempton-Smith <hempsworth at gmail.com>wrote:

> Cheers Andrew,
>
> I'm certainly getting somewhere but it's not quite working. I have the
> following array in register_post_type
>
>     'capabilities' => array(
>  'edit_posts' => 'manage_finances',
> 'delete_posts' => 'manage_finances',
>  'delete_published_posts' => 'manage_finances',
> 'publish_posts' => 'manage_finances',
>  'edit_published_posts' => 'manage_finances'
> ),
>
> So the user can view the post screen, but when a post is saved, the user is
> directed to example.com/wp-admin/post.php with the message "You are not
> allowed to edit this post." - although that cap has been added?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -- Alex  (Hempsworth)
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Andrew Nacin <wp at andrewnacin.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Alex Hempton-Smith <hempsworth at gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>>
>> > Wouldn't it be more flexible to possibly have an extended array in
>> > the register_post_type() args, like this:
>> >
>> > $args = array(
>> >  'capabilities' => array(
>> >  'edit_posts' => 'add_finances',
>> >  'delete_posts' => 'add_finances',
>> >  'delete_published_posts' => 'manage_finances'
>> >  ),
>> >  'rewrite' => false ...
>> >
>> > etc etc
>>
>>
>> You can do that already.
>>
>> Simple capability management: pass capability_type.
>>
>> Advanced capability management: pass capabilities, an array of
>> capabilities
>> keyed (exactly how you described it) with edit_post, edit_posts,
>> edit_others_posts, delete_post, publish_posts, read_post,
>> read_private_posts. See get_post_type_capabilities() and
>> register_post_type(), both in wp-includes/post.php.
>>
>> Note that the meta capabilities have no special mapping/handling that
>> (edit|delete|read)_post have, when capability_type != post. That will
>> likely
>> come as an option in 3.1, but you can add that through a filter on
>> map_meta_cap if you are so inclined.
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