[wp-hackers] Custom Role and Custom Post Types

[SWORD Studios]

That's an interesting idea
On Feb 13, 2011 9:49 PM, "Ryan Bilesky" <rbilesky at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm working on a site where I have a custom post type that I am allowing
> users to both create and edit. I actually don't let my user touch
> wp-admin. I register a shortcode that I can use in a page to embed a
custom
> form that my users can use. Perhaps you could look into doing that aswell.
>
> In addition to that I use thememyprofile to allow user to change their
> password and stuff from a frontend page then I block subscribers from
> accessing wp-admin alltogether.
>
> On Feb 13, 2011 11:04 AM, "SWORD Studios" <info at swordstudios.net> wrote:
>> Thank you Steve.
>>
>> Comments by Jesse Friedman
>> Spelling by iPad
>>
>> On Feb 13, 2011, at 9:15 AM, Steve Taylor <steve at sltaylor.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Jesse,
>>>
>>> You probably need to pay attention to the capabilities-related
>>> argument of register_post_type:
>>>
>>>
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type#Arguments
>>>
>>> I don't know how you're creating the new role - I used Justin
>>> Tadlock's Members plugin, which also allows customization of the
>>> role's capabilities. In tandem with the above arguments, I've been
>>> able to do this kind of thing.
>>>
>>> As for creating the new post on registration, yeah, I think you're on
>>> the right track with the new registration hook.
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>> Steve Taylor
>>>
>>> On 13 February 2011 13:42, SWORD Studios <info at swordstudios.net> wrote:
>>>> Thanks in advance for any help I get with this.
>>>>
>>>> I've defined a new role in wordpress called Designer.
>>>> I've create a custom post type called Profile.
>>>>
>>>> Designer needs to have 1 ability and that's to edit a Profile post.
>>>>
>>>> I need to accomplish the following
>>>>
>>>> - Create a custom Role called "Designer" - DONE
>>>> - I need to limit the capabilities of the Designer to ONLY edit their
>>>> Profile post. I do not want them to be able to "Add Posts" of any type
>>>> because each Designer is only allowed one Profile Post
>>>> - On registration of a "designer" a custom post "Profile" is created
and
>>>> published automatically with the new Designer set as the author
>>>> - The title of this new Profile will be the name of the Designer set by
>>>> the designer upon registration
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Problems I'm having
>>>>
>>>> - It's easy enough to limit the capabilities of the new role to only
>>>> "edit posts" but that actually gives them access to the entire "Posts"
> admin
>>>> panel which include "add new"
>>>> - How do I define that they can ONLY edit a Custom Post Type rather
than
>>>> a simple Post
>>>> - How do I auto create a custom post type upon registration of a new
>>>> user? I figure I can grab the hook that is used for a new user
> registration
>>>> and just add the post to the database manually. If this is the best way
> of
>>>> doing it, I can don't need help with this.
>>>>
>>>> Jesse Friedman
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