Title: Custom Post Type Capabilities
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Custom Post Type Capabilities

 *  Resolved [dyordan1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dyordan1/)
 * (@dyordan1)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-capabilities-2/)
 * Hello fellow WordPress developers!
 * I’m trying to wrap my head around the custom post type capabilities in wordpress…
   I have a custom type that I called faculty and I’ve set the capability_type for
   it to fac_profile. I also have a new role that I’ve created, also called faculty(
   I don’t think that’s a conflict but I can change it easily). Now, I want people
   of that faculty role to be able to only change faculty profiles they are assigned
   as an author to. If I assign them the permissions
 * ‘read_fac_profile’ => true,
    ‘edit_fac_profile’ => true, ‘edit_fac_profiles’ 
   => true, ‘publish_fac_profiles’ => true,
 * all is well and good but they can add new profiles. If I remove ‘edit_fac_profiles’,
   the whole default wordpress admin UI disappears. Is there an easy way to accomplish
   what I want or do I have to implement my own UI with custom permission checks
   to imitate the WordPress default one?

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-capabilities-2/#post-3276005)
 * If you remove the publish capability, they should not be able to add new profiles,
   but can still edit existing ones.
 *  Thread Starter [dyordan1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dyordan1/)
 * (@dyordan1)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-capabilities-2/#post-3276014)
 * Yes, that’s true. Although, technically they’ll still be able to create new profiles,
   they just wouldn’t be able to make them public. On the other hand though, that
   will make them unable to publish any changes on the profile they were assigned
   to as an author as well, which is definitely what I don’t want to happen. I still
   want them to have publish access to the one profile they are able to edit AND
   at the same time be unable to create new ones (even drafts). Any ideas?
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-capabilities-2/#post-3276028)
 * Uh… Didn’t think that one through very well. Hopefully this idea works better.
   Even though it is meant for a different purpose, the “add_meta_boxes” action 
   could work for your enforcement of no new profiles for faculty. I’m assuming 
   it fires when the editor opens for your faculty profiles as it does for other
   post types.
 * Your action hook function will be passed the post type and post object. Between
   the $type and the $post->post_status, you can easily determine if it’s an existing
   profile edit or an attempt to add new. If it’s a faculty user and a new profile,
   simply wp_die() with an error message.
 *  Thread Starter [dyordan1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dyordan1/)
 * (@dyordan1)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-capabilities-2/#post-3276029)
 * Ah, but of course, I could just make WordPress go belly up when they try to create
   a new profile! Not the most graceful approach but a very functional one nevertheless!
   Thank you, I appreciate your help! If I come up with a better solution at some
   point and don’t forget to do so, I might post it here at some point. For now,
   this should be sufficient. Thanks!
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-capabilities-2/#post-3276033)
 * Glad to help. WordPress core dies itself often enough on error, but yes, rather
   crude. As it turns out with this action, no headers are yet sent, so wp_redirect
   would work to send the misguided faculty anywhere you want for more elegant error
   handling.

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