Title: Problem updating custom posts with certain users
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Problem updating custom posts with certain users

 *  [Eddie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mseddie/)
 * (@mseddie)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-updating-custom-posts-with-certain-users/)
 * We have a custom post type for Courses. Courses has some custom fields for city,
   date, course length and location. City is picked by a radio button, date uses
   a date picker, course length and location are text fields.
 * We have 2 admin users – User 1 can edit and update everything, user 2 cannot 
   update date and course length for some reason. When user 2 updates a post it 
   doesn’t return any error, it just keeps the affected details the same as they
   were before the update. The post title, content, excerpt etc are unaffected. 
   The post looks as though it updated correctly, but the details haven’t changed.
 * Where do I start looking? Both users are, for all intents and purposes, identical.

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 *  Thread Starter [Eddie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mseddie/)
 * (@mseddie)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-updating-custom-posts-with-certain-users/#post-2720526)
 * To add to this –
 * I’ve found that only the user with an ID of 1 can change everything. I’ve gone
   into the database and swapped the ID’s, User 2 (now with and ID of 1) can now
   update everything, User 1 (now with an ID of 2) cannot. I still want to fix this.
   Why would the user ID’s affect their posting ability in this way?
 *  [Christine Rondeau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crondeau/)
 * (@crondeau)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-updating-custom-posts-with-certain-users/#post-2720538)
 * Do both have full admin rights? Perhaps one is set to admin and the other editor,
   or editor and author…
 *  Thread Starter [Eddie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mseddie/)
 * (@mseddie)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-updating-custom-posts-with-certain-users/#post-2720564)
 * Both are admin – After I swapped the user ID’s it worked fine for User 2 which
   suggests to me that it has nothing to do with any of the user settings

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

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Eddie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mseddie/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-updating-custom-posts-with-certain-users/#post-2720564)
 * Status: not resolved

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