User cannot “Add New” for Custom Post Type
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Hi all,
I’ve created a custom post type “reservations”, which I only want to be accessible by users with the custom capabilities set for the post type.
I created a role named “Reservation Manager” where I have added the capability to both this role and the “administrator” role to have access to the post type to do edits, deletes, publish etc. I created one capability name “manage_reservations” to handle all of this, via post type “capabilities” arg.
With the “Reservation Manager”, I can do edit, deletes, etc, everything except when I click the “Add New” button, it says, “Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page.”.
If I add the “edit_posts” capability to the “Reservation Manager” role, its fine, I get to do the “Add New” stuff. If i also set the “show_in_menu” args to “true”, I can “Add New” posts for the post type, even without adding the “edit_posts” capability to the “Reservation Manager” role.
What am I doing wrong? Everything works fine except “Add New” post for the custom post type.
See below for code snippet of post type args. Please, any help….
// get args $args = [ 'exclude_from_search' => true, 'publicly_querable' => false, 'show_ui' => true, 'show_in_nav_menus' => false, 'show_in_menu' => false, 'show_in_admin_bar' => true, 'map_meta_cap' => true, 'capability_type' => 'reservation', 'capabilities' => [ // meta caps (don't assign these to roles) 'edit_post' => 'edit_reservation', 'read_post' => 'read_reservation', 'delete_post' => 'delete_reservation', // primitive/meta caps 'create_posts' => 'manage_reservations', // primitive caps used outside of map_meta_cap() 'edit_posts' => 'manage_reservations', 'edit_others_posts' => 'manage_reservations', 'publish_posts' => 'manage_reservations', 'read_private_posts' => 'read', // primitive caps used inside of map_meta_cap() 'read' => 'read', 'delete_posts' => 'manage_reservations', 'delete_private_posts' => 'manage_reservations', 'delete_published_posts' => 'manage_reservations', 'delete_others_posts' => 'manage_reservations', 'edit_private_posts' => 'manage_reservations', 'edit_published_posts' => 'manage_reservations', ], ];
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I found a hack mate, thanks to you saying the menu item for add new does not exist, which is why wordpress is not allowing me to create posts. So it got me thinking, what hack can I do to make wordpress think its there without it actually displaying?
Well, after hours of thinking and trying all sort of things, it finally hit me to dump the $GLOBALS and see what stuff is there that I can manipulate (thanks to symfony dump() function, it was a breeze understanding what all is there).
I used the “admin_menu” hook, and got the global $submenu variable and edited it so that wordpress now sees the add new menu, although it is not displayed.
$submenu['edit.php?post_type=reservations'][] = [ 'Add Reservations', '', // leave permission empty so it doesn't display 'post-new.php?post_type=reservations', 'Add Reservations', ];
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