Hey, Mr Papa from Simple:Press here - glad to see you using our plugin!

not sure if I am doing something wrong, but we have defined a series of custom post types. I want to allow users to only edit certain custom post types.  And not be able to edit posts or pages.

I can only seem to get the ability to edit posts and all custom post types or none. I am using the capability manager (capsman) and we have defined new capabilities for editing, publishing, etc the custom post types we want users to have access to.  they are all checked for the revisor role.

If I only check the custom post types I want and have posts turned off, I get nothing available for users to edit.  If I turn on the posts, I get posts and all custom post types (I only want to grant cap to some of the custom post types), regardless of what the caps are actually set to for the custom post types.  This is independent of the revisionary option for including custom post types.

How can I make it such that only the desired custom post types can be edited?

Thanks!

think so…  took the easy way out and using the Custom Post Type UI pluign which does not those capabilities…  but have the Map Cap plugin which allows them to be created… sort of

before revisionary, they all work fine, except edits are not moderated. they just get published.  I am hoping your pluging would add in the moderation/review of the edited custom post types.

but they might all be getting in the way of each other…  I just went back and made sure and resaved the custom post type in the ui with the post type itself…  and now the edits are just saved.. but noticed a check box for save as pending revision I hadnt noticed before…

ah thanks for that!  didnt match the name to some one from the support site - sorry!

well, it seems live revisionary is the one putting the checkbox on the edit custom post type panel… its not their if I temp deactivate it…

so what I really want is that check boxed check with no way for users to uncheck…

yes.

Mr Papa said:

well, it seems live revisionary is the one putting the checkbox on the edit custom post type panel… its not their if I temp deactivate it…

so what I really want is that check boxed check with no way for users to uncheck…

That sounds like the "edit_published_{post_type}" cap has gotten into your user's allcaps array. To enable a user to edit a published post with moderation, they should have edit_ and edit_others_, but not edit_published_.

doh! works great! operator error on my part - sorry… silly me didnt read enough on edit published… just assumed it meant edit an already published post… didnt realize it mean edit AND publish the edits…

thanks for the help!

When we get this all set up, gonna have to reciprocate that donation!

Mr Papa said:

doh! works great! operator error on my part - sorry… silly me didnt read enough on edit published… just assumed it meant edit an already published post… didnt realize it mean edit AND publish the edits…

thanks for the help!

No problem. It is admittedly confusing, but WP only requires the "publish_posts" cap to change the status to published.

When we get this all set up, gonna have to reciprocate that donation!

Okay, but I wasn't fishing for that. And I just realized that in honor of my 2000th support post, you visited the forum… and dressed to impress as always.

Mr Papa said:

lol. didnt realize I was 2000th!

I know you werent fishing!

No, but close. My 2000th post would have been earlier today or yesterday.

Mr Papa said:

hey, ya know what would be nice?  a pending revision metabox on the dashboard…

I'll have to think about that tomorrow… off to bed!

Let me know if you have specific requests / suggestions for the contents and behavior of that metabox.