Title: Custom post – capabilities
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Custom post – capabilities

 *  [fraticiudan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fraticiudan/)
 * (@fraticiudan)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-capabilities/)
 * Hi there,
 * I have a project where I have a custom post type, where each post is assigned
   to a user. So the user can edit this one post, and nothing else.
 * I’ve setup the capabilities following this instructions: [http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/07/10/meta-capabilities-for-custom-post-types](http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/07/10/meta-capabilities-for-custom-post-types)(
   Thanks Justin). Everything is ok, works. But I can’t set the post author to a“
   regular” user. When I edit the post the “author” drop down lists just the administrator
   user(s).
 * So the question is how to I make wordpress let me set the author as a regular
   user? I tried granting them acces to add custom posts, edit_others, delete… still
   I can’t set them as authors.
 * Any indications would be greatly apreciated.

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