How to allow user role tag custom taxonomy in cpt

[Peled Ben Yair]

Hi. I have a custom post type with two custom taxonomies,
_kb-cats
audience

I allowed the user to create a new post but the taxonomies are disabled.
what can I do in order to allow the user to tag the post?
thanks.

[Vladimir]

Hi,

1st, look for the assign__terms user capability. If you don’t see it and it does not work if you try manually add it, then I can suppose that custom taxonomy is defined with default capability type. Try to add to a role ‘edit_posts’ and/or ‘manage_categories’ capability.

[Peled Ben Yair]

Hi I added these three capabilities (link to image attached)
assign_audience_terms
assign_kb-cats_terms (though the category begins with underscore _kb-cats )
amd I also added assign_info_terms (by the name of the CPT they belong to)

I added the capabilities to the Author abilities
but in the add CPT ui I still see the checkboxes as disabled… (link to image attached)

[Vladimir]

Your reply have waited moderation due to the 2 link included. Thanks for the notification about this.

I see that individual capabilities don’t work for your taxonomies. What about to try ‘edit_posts’ and if it will not help, ‘manage_categories’?

[Peled Ben Yair]

Thanks for the fast replay
edit posts helped, but I dont want the users to be able to crud posts, comments or many other options that user the posts post type
just the cpt
is it possible?

[Peled Ben Yair]

edit posts add the red marked options to the admin side menu

can I prevent this?

[Vladimir]

Try to block unneeded admin menu items using “Admin menu blocking” add-on.

Btw., I work on add custom taxonomies to the code executed for the URE’s option
“Force custom post types to use their own capabilities”. This will replace ‘edit_posts’ for such taxonomies with ‘assign__terms’ capability. So you will not need to add ‘edit_posts’ for custom post types. I plan to add this to the next udpate.

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