[Vladimir]

Hi,

It may depend from a theme or additional plugins you use. Show screenshot to give me more information.

Mine test bbPress shows at forum only user name. It shows role at user profile after click on the user name and it’s a role name not ID: “Forum Role: Participant”.

[Vladimir]

Check what exact ID your custom post type CPT really has. Pay attention that while we talk ‘posts’, post type ID is ‘post’. So I suppose that your CPT is ‘scholarship’, not ‘scholarships’.
With this assumption in mind try this version of a code:

if (current_user_can('scholarships')) {  // Role ID
      if ($post_type=='scholarship') {  // CPT ID
        $restrict_it = false;
      }
  }

[Vladimir]

It should work, with little tuning.
Try to exclude ‘scholarship’ CPT from edit restrictions using ‘ure_restrict_edit_post_type‘ filter.

[Vladimir]

When you 1st time enable this add-on you need to “learn” it: open post editor page, then page editor page to show what meta boxes exist at your site. Re-check the list of meta boxes listed by add-on after that.

[Vladimir]

Re-check if this role and/or user with this role has active edit restrictions. May be deactivate ‘Edit restrictions’ add-on temporally for quick test.

[Vladimir]

Yes, it’s possible. You can block for selected role “Publish (submitdiv)” meta box under ‘Page’ and ‘Post’ sections using this add-on.

[Vladimir]

Hi Meredith,

URE Pro includes this feature. Look at the “Settings->User Role Editor->Tools” tab. Try “Export” button.

[Vladimir]

Turn ON special option “Show Administrator role at User Role Editor” at “Settings->User Role Editor->General” tab in order to see “Administrator” role in the URE’s roles drop-down list.

[Vladimir]

Hi,

When you add new CPT with a default ‘edit_posts’ capability, URE should add this CPT own capabilities to ‘administrator’ role automatically, at least when you open User Role Editor. ‘administrator’ role should get access to all CPTs after that. If it’s not happened you still can add needed capabilities to ‘administrator’ role manually. Check if ‘administrator’ role has full list of capabilities under ‘Custom Post Types’ group.

[Vladimir]

Thanks for letting me know that you found a solution more suitable for your use case.

Generally, when URE forces CPTs to use own capabilities, it does this for all CPTs with default ‘edit_posts’ capabilities set. So CPT ‘video’ will use ‘edit_videos’ instead of ‘edit_posts’, etc. And if role does not have ‘edit_videos’ capability it does not have access to ‘Videos’ CPT, even if role still has ‘edit_posts’ capability.

[Vladimir]

Hi Rob,

It’s still not realized. Thanks for a remind.

[Vladimir]

Having all CPTs using own capabilities, when you add ‘edit_post’, role should get access to CPT, to which you not granted access.
What’s a problem now?

[Vladimir]

You have 2 ways to achieve this:
1) Force all CPT to use own capabilities, like ‘edit_videos’ for ‘Video’ CPT, etc. Use similar checkbox under ‘Edit restrictions’ section at Settings->User Role Editor->Additional modules tab. You may need to go through your roles to check if they do not lose needed access, like Media Library item editing, which will use edit_attachements instead of edit_posts.

or

2) User Admin menu blocking add-on to block admin menu items for CPTs unneeded to this role.

[Vladimir]

Hi,

By default even contributor with just ‘edit_posts’ can turn ON/OFF categories checkboxes. Try to deactivate related plugins just to check if there is some conflict.

[Vladimir]

But I don’t want this role to be able to delete any pages, not even the pages I gave them access to edit.

Just remember that is default WordPress permissions – in order to delete item from Media Library user should can delete the page to which this image was attached.

There is workaround for your situation – force WordPress to use unique user capabilities for all post types including ‘attachment’ one.
Make fresh database backup – for the case if you will wish to rollback changes.
Go to Settings->User Role Editor->Additional Modules. Turn ON “Force custom post types to use their own capabilities” option under “Content editing restrictions” section. Go through your roles and check if they need new created capabilities, like for ‘Attachments’ post type.

You can grant to a role ‘delete_attachments’ instead of ‘delete_pages’, etc. in this case.

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