Title: Custom capabilities
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Custom capabilities

 *  [efisher82](https://wordpress.org/support/users/efisher82/)
 * (@efisher82)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-capabilities/)
 * I’m new to this plugin. How would I go about creating a custom capability allowing
   editing of posts of only a certain type (i.e. one created by another plugin, 
   not pages or normal posts)?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Vladimir Garagulya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shinephp/)
 * (@shinephp)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-capabilities/#post-4619112)
 * This post may give you the answer
    [http://shinephp.com/capabilities-set-for-custom-post-type/](http://shinephp.com/capabilities-set-for-custom-post-type/)
 *  Thread Starter [efisher82](https://wordpress.org/support/users/efisher82/)
 * (@efisher82)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-capabilities/#post-4619119)
 * That gives instructions that involve making a new custom post type within the
   plugin. But how should I do it if the custom post type already exists?
 *  Plugin Author [Vladimir Garagulya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shinephp/)
 * (@shinephp)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-capabilities/#post-4619125)
 * Please read more carefully.
    According to that post you need to check at the 
   plugin code how it defines custom post type, e.g. ‘card’ or something else and
   what capability it uses for it. Sometimes plugin creates own custom post type,
   but uses default ‘post’ capability to manage access to it.
 * After that you may add the set of custom user capabilities for that custom post
   type, as described at the end of the post I noted above, on the example of ‘card’
   custom post type – 10 custom capabilities.
 *  Thread Starter [efisher82](https://wordpress.org/support/users/efisher82/)
 * (@efisher82)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-capabilities/#post-4619129)
 * Thank you I checked after my last reply and I will try that with the plugin. 
   Thanks

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## Tags

 * [capability](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/capability/)
 * [post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/post/)
 * [post-type](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/post-type/)

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 * Last reply from: [efisher82](https://wordpress.org/support/users/efisher82/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-capabilities/#post-4619129)
 * Status: not resolved