Title: Custom Post Type – capability_type
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Custom Post Type – capability_type

 *  [Shmoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macpresss/)
 * (@macpresss)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-capability_type/)
 * A question,
 * The **capability_type** feature of a Post Type can be set to ‘post’ or ‘page’.
 * If I understand this correctly Pages can’t have Tags or Category taxonomies assigned
   to them but Posts can.
 * What to do if you would like to hook into a Post Type created by some other plugin
   developer?
    I see this plugin developer has used:
 *     ```
       'capability_type'    => 'page',
       ```
   
 * And I already have coded my taxonomy (cats) that hooks into his Post Type. Everything
   works tho, the categories can be created and I can show them front-end but there
   is just one single problem I can’t delete/remove the created categories because
   there is no menu-item showing up where you can edit/add or remove categories.
 * What to do ?
 * I’ve study his code and I see this:
 *     ```
       register_post_type( 'mycred_badge', apply_filters( 'mycred_register_badge', $args ) );
       ```
   
 * If i’m not mistaken I can use that apply_filter ‘mycred_register_badge’ function
   to change the default page capability_type to a post capability_type but I’m 
   afraid it will break everything because I already have created content in this
   Post Type when the capability_type was set to page.
 * Can somebody give me advise?

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 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-capability_type/#post-5147840)
 * See if the [Add Tags and Category To Page and Post Types](http://wordpress.org/plugins/add-tags-and-category-to-page/)
   plugin will work for you.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-capability_type/#post-5147840)
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