Use capabilities on snowball post type? about snowball HOT 3 CLOSED

Hey @noelforte, thanks for the suggestion. If I understand correctly, you want more fine-grained control over user capabilities with Snowball articles. Someone who can edit regular posts, you might not want to be able to edit Snowball articles...

And by defining capabilities when registering the Snowball custom post type, you're able to use the Members plugin to get this fine-grained control over the capabilities that different roles get?

How about if we just added the capabilities array like you did? This would provide a hook for organizations to use with Members plugin or similar, without overreaching and defining our own roles that users may not want.

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Hi @thomaspark, that would probably work.

Here's what I used as a reference: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type#capability_type and https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type#capabilities

Of course, like I said, you'd also need to bind them to at least one of the default roles, as once you add the capabilities any roles needing access to the snowball type will need to have those capabilities set, so that the plugin can function out of the box. See: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_cap

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Hey @noelforte, I've added custom capabilities and assigned them to default roles as you suggested. These changes are committed to develop branch and will be included in the next release.

If you have the chance, please check out the changes in commit af7cb71 and test them on your end. Hopefully this eliminates the need for you to modify each new release. Thanks for the suggestion.

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