Title: [Plugin: More Types] Converting post types creates error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: More Types] Converting post types creates error

 *  [Erlend](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sadr/)
 * (@sadr)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-more-types-converting-post-types-creates-error/)
 * I received this error after carrying out a bulk conversion of three ordinary 
   posts into a new ‘Doc’ type I had created with this plugin:
 * > Fatal error: Call to a member function add_cap() on a non-object in /home/erlend_sh/
   > silverback3d.dreamhosters.com/wordpress2/wp-content/plugins/more-types/more-
   > types-object.php on line 135
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/more-types/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/more-types/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Erlend](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sadr/)
 * (@sadr)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-more-types-converting-post-types-creates-error/#post-1616682)
 * Apparently pressing ‘edit’ now takes me to the front page… I figured out that
   the error doesn’t present itself until I log out.
 *  [Upstreet Media](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phxvyper/)
 * (@phxvyper)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-more-types-converting-post-types-creates-error/#post-1616971)
 * Find line 135.
 * Change
    `$wp_roles->add_cap($role, $capability);`
 * To
 *     ```
       if(is_object($mp_roles) && method_exists($wp_roles,'add_cap'))
       {
       	$wp_roles->add_cap($role, $capability);
       }
       ```
   

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 * Last reply from: [Upstreet Media](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phxvyper/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-more-types-converting-post-types-creates-error/#post-1616971)
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