Title: Granular Permissions
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Granular Permissions

 *  Resolved [Dirty Bill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dirty-bill/)
 * (@dirty-bill)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/granular-permissions/)
 * Looking for how to set publish permissions for custom types without enabling 
   publishing permissions for standard posts. Is it here and I’m not getting it,
   or is this something I need to look at coding?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-content-type-manager/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-content-type-manager/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [fireproofsocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fireproofsocks/)
 * (@fireproofsocks)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/granular-permissions/#post-3593955)
 * There have been some feature requests/bug-reports about permissions (e.g. [https://code.google.com/p/wordpress-custom-content-type-manager/issues/detail?id=462](https://code.google.com/p/wordpress-custom-content-type-manager/issues/detail?id=462)),
   but I cannot answer your question off the top of my head with doing the usual
   trial and error routine. The CCTM offers a GUI to every argument accepted by 
   the register_post_type() function ([http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type)),
   so I think you can do exactly what you want here by editing your values for the
   capability type and the capabilities field. Check out the Advanced tab on your
   post-type definition.
 * However, any time I’ve dealt with a project that required anything remotely custom
   with permissions, I quickly exhausted what was practical in WordPress and instead
   used MODX. Its attribute based access control system takes longer to configure,
   but it’s so much more flexible and clean.
 *  Thread Starter [Dirty Bill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dirty-bill/)
 * (@dirty-bill)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/granular-permissions/#post-3593987)
 * Ok, have tried to work on this one for awhile – the capabilities rules in the
   advanced tab do not appear to work at all. According to the examples and documentation
   I can find, this:
 * _[ Moderator Note: [Please post code](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code)
   or markup snippets between backticks or use the code button. ]_
 *     ```
       publish_posts=publish_weather_entries&edit_posts=edit_weather_entries&edit_others_posts=edit_others_weather_entries&edit_post=edit_weather_entry&delete_post=delete_weather_entry
       ```
   
 * Should yield a custom post type that has a granular permission that I can assign
   with User Roll Editor. None of the capabilities show up. I’ve used URE (User 
   Roll Editor) with other plugins, custom plugins I’ve done, etc. – always works.
   This seems to indicate that the Capabilities field on the advanced tab possibly
   isn’t registering the entries properly.
 * I’m not sure, but it currently means I have to give publish capabilities for 
   posts to writers who should NOT have that capability when what I need them to
   have is the permission to publish a custom post type.
 *  Plugin Contributor [fireproofsocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fireproofsocks/)
 * (@fireproofsocks)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/granular-permissions/#post-3593998)
 * If you can write this up as a bug report or feature request with detailed steps
   to reproduce the problem and the requisite side-by-side comparison of what you
   expected to see vs. what you actually saw, then I can look at this further.
 *  Plugin Contributor [fireproofsocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fireproofsocks/)
 * (@fireproofsocks)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/granular-permissions/#post-3594011)
 * Closing this. No bug report and no ability to reproduce = no further action taken.

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## Tags

 * [permission](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permission/)
 * [publishing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/publishing/)
 * [rights](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rights/)

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 * Last reply from: [fireproofsocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fireproofsocks/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/granular-permissions/#post-3594011)
 * Status: resolved