No permissions to add new post with a custom post type inside a menu.

Hello all,

I’ve been searching for a solution for the past 2 days and had no luck yet.. Also found this problem writen by other people, but no answers.

I want to group my custom post types into a menu in the back-end, and what it seems to be a simple taks…it’s not ??

I know you can create a menu with add_menu_page and then create a custom post type with show_in_menu to append to that menu. That works greate. The CPT is added to the menu and i can see the listing with no problem.

Now the problem is: if i am an administrator i can click “Add New Post” and it works great, but if i’m not (even when i give the menu and post type the right capabilities) it says i have no permission to see that page.

If i dont use “show_in_menu” it create a new menu in the backend with the link “Add New” and it works good. But once i add it to a menu, it says i have no permissions.

Please does someone tried this allready and can help me? It seems a simple “job” for wordpress but it’s frustrating ??

Here is my code:

Created the menu:
add_menu_page( 'Call of Duty 4', 'CoD4 Team', 'edit_kposts', 'cod4team');

Created the post type:

register_post_type( 'cod4_news',
	array(
	   'labels' => array(
	   'name' => 'News' ,
	   'singular_name' => 'News',
	   'add_new' => 'New News',
	   'add_new_item' => 'New News'
	 ),
	'public' => true,
	'has_archive' => true,
	'show_ui' => true,
	'show_in_menu' => 'cod4team',
	'query_var' => true,
	'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'cod4_news'),
	'supports' => array('title','editor','author','comments'),
	'capabilities' => array(
		'edit_post'           => 'edit_kpost',
		'delete_post'	      => 'delete_kpost',
		'read_post' 	      => 'read_kpost',
		'publish_posts'	      => 'publish_kpost',
		'edit_posts'	      => 'edit_kposts',
		'edit_others_posts'   => 'edit_others_kposts',
		'delete_posts' 	      => 'delete_kposts',
		'delete_others_posts' => 'delete_others_kposts',
		'read_private_posts'  => 'read_private_kposts')
	)
);

Create the Site Manager role:

add_role( 'site_manager', 'Site Manager', array(
		'edit_kpost' 	        => true,
		'delete_kpost' 		=> true,
		'read_kpost' 		=> true,
		'publish_kpost' 	=> true,
		'edit_kposts' 		=> true,
		'edit_others_kposts' 	=> true,
		'delete_kposts' 	=> true,
		'delete_others_kposts' 	=> true,
		'read_private_kposts' 	=> true,
                'read' 			=> true,
                'upload_files' 		=> true
	));

So, using a user with the role “Site Manager” i cant access the new post page, but with the administrator i can.

I hope that i have explained the problem correctly and sorry for my english if not.

Thanks in advance