Custom Taxonomy Capabilities Not Showing Up Under Additional Capabilities

@trebor33, the easiest way to implement custom capabilities for your taxonomies is by enabling them in CME’s “Taxonomy-Specific Capabilities” and “Detailed Taxonomy Capabilities” boxes. This will cause the selected taxonomies to have manage, edit, delete and assign checkboxes displayed in the organized grid at the top of the Roles and Capabilities screen.

Hi Kevin:

Thanks for getting back to me. I checked all of the checkboxes for my custom taxonomies checked under both the Taxonomy Specific Capabilities metabox and the the Detailed Taxonomy Capabilities metabox and clicked the update button to save the settings. After doing this I am still only seeing the single checkbox for manage capabilities under the Additional Capabilities section.

When I installed the plugin on my staging server I set up the two taxonomy metaboxes as I outlined above before I started adjusting role permissions. As mentioned in my first post this was before I realized I hadn’t moved my updated functions file from my development to staging servers. From my testing it seems like these taxonomy settings aren’t updating when I change the checkbox selections in the two metaboxes.

Is the plugin saving something in the database that is preventing these settings from updating? Let me know if you have any additional ideas on how to correct this. Thanks again for your help!

P.S. Other than this issue the plugin is excellent. Well designed and easy to implement.

Are your taxonomies showing in the Editing Capabilities section up top? If so, what capability checkboxes are there, and what capability captions display if you hover over the checkboxes?

Hi Kevin:

Thank you for getting back to me again. Under the Editing Capabilities section categories and tags each have three checkboxes for manage, edit, and assign. These are followed by my seven custom taxonomies. Only the first taxonomy alphabetically (artist types) has the three checkboxes, the other six only have the edit checkbox.

A similar situation appears under the Deletion Capabilities section. Categories and Tags are listed with a checkbox. Again with my custom taxonomies only the first taxonomy alphabetically (artist types) is listed with a checkbox, the other six are not listed.

All of the custom taxonomies are created in the same manner using the register taxonomy function. Here is an example:

    register_taxonomy(
        'artist-type',
        'artists',
        array(
            'labels' => array(
                'name' => 'Artist Types',
                'add_new_item' => 'Add New Artist Type',
                'new_item_name' => 'New Artist Type',
                'all_items' => 'All Artist Types',
                'edit_item' => 'Edit Artist Type',
                'view_item' => 'View Artist Type',
                'update_item' => 'Update Artist Type',
                'parent_item' => 'Parent Artist Type',
                'parent_item_colon' => 'Parent Artist Type:',
                'not_found' => 'No Artist Types Found',
            ),
            'show_ui' => true,
            'show_in_nav_menus' => true,
            'has_archive' => true,
            'show_tagcloud' => false,
            'hierarchical' => true,
            'capabilities' => array (
	  			'manage_terms' => 'manage_artist_types',
	  			'edit_terms' => 'edit_artist_types',
	  			'delete_terms' => 'delete_artist_types',
	  			'assign_terms' => 'assign_artist_types',
			),
        )
    );

One last note: When attempting to correct this issue I did use the Reset to Word Press defaults link under the Tools menu. Just wanted to make sure this wasn’t related to this issue.

Please get back to me when you have a chance. Thanks again for your help!

-Robert

There must be some difference with your other register_taxonomy calls, or possibly their execution priority. Adapting your sample code on my test site with CME 1.7.4, all taxonomies show the checkboxes. For two additional taxonomies, I changed the taxonomy name and capability names, which then displayed on checkbox hover.

How are you triggering the register_taxonomy calls? I have mine hooked to the ‘init’ action at priority 10.

If this does not clear up your issue, can you post the other register_taxonomy() calls?

I did notice one issue. With Detailed Taxonomy Capabilities enabled, it is constructing the edit capability from your taxonomy name (“edit_artist-types”) instead of accepting your predefined capability name.

Hi Kevin:

Thanks for getting back to me again. The issue with construction of the capability names you noted in your last reply turned out to be the culprit. I switched the capability names to use the slug of the taxonomy name (edit_artist-types etc) and all of my taxonomies (with all checkboxes) are now showing up under the Edit and Delete sections.

Thanks again for all of your help in troubleshooting this issue! This was definitely something I would not have thought of as the solution.

-Robert

• This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by trebor33. Reason: typo

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