Title: creating Capability
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# creating Capability

 *  Resolved [onirgoc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/onirgoc/)
 * (@onirgoc)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-capability/)
 * Hello
 * creating capabilities is great but i have problems with 2 things:
 * 1) creating “Read Meta Tribe Events” create “Read Meta Tribe Events” which of
   course make some trouble trying to use it ! It should be something like : “read_meta_tribe_events”(
   no maj. and underscore)
 * 2) Created capabilites doesn’t seems to be editable and can’t be deleted.
 * Thanks
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 *  [vasyl_m](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vasyl_m/)
 * (@vasyl_m)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-capability/#post-6823025)
 * Hi **onirgoc**,
 * When you create a capability with AAM, it takes it as you entered it. So in your
   case you just type literally “**read_meta_tribe_events**“.
 * What you see in the the list of capabilities is just a human readable list of
   capabilities. With AAM 3.0.5 you actually can see also the internal representation
   of each capability right next to the capability name.
 * We made a decision to remove the ability to either edit or delete capabilities
   for the ONLY reason – inexperienced users most of the time tried to delete some
   of the capabilities and later put all blame on AAM (that is why you can find 
   quite few negative reviews about it).
 * We might be able to add this feature with some extra help of [ConfigPress](https://wordpress.org/plugins/configpress/)
   plugin.
 * Follow us on twitter _[Link redacted]_ to know the latest news.
 * Appreciate your interest in AAM.
    Vasyl
 *  [vasyl_m](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vasyl_m/)
 * (@vasyl_m)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-capability/#post-6823040)
 * Hi **onirgoc**,
 * FYI. We are working on the ability to edit/delete capabilities (check our _[Link
   redacted]_). Looks like you are not the only one who is looking to have this 
   functionality by default.
 * In our next AAM release 3.0.6 you’ll be able to activate an ability to do that
   with AAM Utilities extension (which is free).
 * Appreciate your feedback!
    Vasyl
 *  Thread Starter [onirgoc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/onirgoc/)
 * (@onirgoc)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-capability/#post-6823042)
 * Maybe to avoid you trouble with non advanced users you should put a red text 
   in a pop up or something like that when using “delete” ? 😉
 * About the way to insert it maybe (also) you can “translate” bad spelling ( I 
   mean for php use) like name with “R3 in place of “r” or replace space between
   words by underscore…but I can live with the fact to have to do it the right way
   directly… 😉
 * Thanks for your help !
 *  [vasyl_m](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vasyl_m/)
 * (@vasyl_m)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-capability/#post-6823044)
 * Hi **onirgoc**,
 * This is how it was long time ago. We were “normalizing” the capability name (
   as example by replacing white spaces with underscore). But the reality is a bit
   different.
 * There are some plugins, that actually depend on capabilities like “Manage Something”
   so in this case if AAM will keep normalizing the capability, then it will be 
   no possibility to create such a capability.
 * Anyway, managing capabilities is considered as one of the most complex and complicated
   parts of WordPress functionality. So people like you know what to do.
 * Best Regards,
    Vasyl

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