CTP capability error

Hi otta88sun,
this is Agnes from Toolset support team.

Authors should not be able to delete other’s posts. Editor role can do that. Authors however can delete the posts they created themselves.

Custom posts created with Types behave exactly the same here as standard WP posts.

If you are satisfied with my answer, please mark this post as “resolved”. Do let us know what you think in the Reviews section.

Maybe my question was not clear ??

I created with Types a CTP, its slug is “Annuncio”.

Now, i want that some roles likes (cittadino, contributor and author) can delete only their own published post of this CTP.

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_published_annunci’ );

This code should give to a role the capability of delete published CTP annunci (only their own). But doesn’t work, so i don’t know what’s the error seen that the slug annunci is correct.

Hi again.
Now it’s clear. You want to add some custom roles/capabilities to manage your custom Annuncio posts.

You can achieve this in two ways:
1. with php programming using ‘capability_type’ => array(‘annunci’, ‘annuncies) and ‘map_meta_cap’ => true when registering your custom post type. Without these two parameters the code you tried won’t work.

2. with our Access plugin, with no programming, just clicking:
https://wp-types.com/documentation/user-guides/setting-access-control/
https://wp-types.com/documentation/user-guides/custom-roles-access-privileges/

If you choose option one and you’ve already have your custom post defined you will have to add a filter:

add_filter( 'wpcf_type', 'custom_func', 10, 2 );
function custom_func ( $data, $post_type ) {
	$data['capability_type'] = array('annunci', 'annuncies');
	$data['map_meta_cap'] = true;
	return $data;
}

Thanks for help, but it doesn’t work. I’ll buy Access.. ??

I missed annunci condition, once again:

add_filter('wpcf_type', 'custom_func', 10, 2);
function custom_func($data, $post_type) {
 if ($post_type == 'annunci') {//Post type slug as entered on Types setting page
  $data['capability_type'] = array('annunci', 'annuncies');
  $data['map_meta_cap'] = true;
 }
 return $data;
}

Important: add filter before ‘init’ hook.

And please remember to adds capabilities after filtering. First filtering, than adding capabilities. The code should work now.

But Access is more friendly, try it out.

Thanks for code and your help, it became

add_filter('wpcf_type', 'custom_func', 10, 2);
function custom_func($data, $post_type) {
	 if ($post_type == 'annuncio') {//Post type slug as entered on Types setting page
	  $data['capability_type'] = array('annuncio', 'annuncios');
	  $data['map_meta_cap'] = true;
	 }
	 return $data;
}

function add_theme_caps() {
	// gets the author role
	$roles[0] = get_role( 'cittadino' );
	$roles[1] = get_role( 'contributor' );
	$roles[2] = get_role( 'author' );
	$roles[3] = get_role( 'editor' );
	$roles[4] = get_role( 'administrator' );

	// This only works, because it accesses the class instance.
	// would allow the author to edit others' posts for current theme only

	foreach($roles as $role){
		$role->add_cap( 'delete_published_annuncios' );
		$role->add_cap( 'edit_annuncio' );
		$role->add_cap( 'edit_annuncios' );
		$role->add_cap( 'read_annuncio' );
		$role->add_cap( 'delete_annuncio' );
	}
}
add_action( 'admin_init', 'add_theme_caps');

But it doesn’t work. I means the annuncio menu doesn’t appear for that users.

Am I wrong in something?

Dear otta88sun, this is not so easy to manage. That’s why we have Access plugin. Capabilities are in relations, so to have what you need it requires more testing.

I showed you how to enable mapping. Now you ask to me to help you to manage capabilities. Each capability is attached to set of capabilities.

Please try out the Access plugin. You can do it for free on our learning platform: https://discover-wp.com/site-templates/
Access is used for example at Classifieds Site.

Sure, i think Access will do great job. I’ll use it. Thanks ??