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by thenbrent 5 (4 reviews)

Map Cap

Control who can publish, edit and delete custom post types. Silly name, useful code.

Map Cap ranks #13,190 among WordPress.org plugins with 100+ active installations, is #322 of 1,719 in the User Management category, a 5/5 rating from 4 reviews, and was last updated Aug 15, 2013. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 3.1 (Current: 7.1)
v2.1 Current Version v2.1
Updated 13 years ago Last Update on 15 Aug, 2013
Refreshed 12 hours ago Last Refreshed on
#322 of 1,719 in User Management Top 25% by installs No update in over a year
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Downloads
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Review 5 out of 5
5 (4 reviews)

Next Milestone 200

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Reviews & Ratings

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

No known vulnerabilities on record for Map Cap. Checked 1 month ago.

TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for site owners and administrators using custom post types on their WordPress site. It solves the problem of controlling which user roles can publish, edit, and delete posts of each custom type.

  • Control publishing by role
  • Control editing by role
  • Control deleting by role
  • Per custom post type permissions

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Map Cap

There are four requirements for a custom post type to show up in Map Cap's settings page. The post type must: be public not be a built-in post type eg. page & post use a custom capability type (not the default capability of post). This is done when registering the Custom Post Type. In the $args array you pass to the register_post_type function, your plugin must have capability_type => set to something other than post. be registered with the map_meta_cap argument set to true - the default is false. Without this parameter set to true, WordPress does not map any meta capabilities. Force Mapping As many custom post types do not set the map_meta_cap to true, Map Cap offers an option to change the value of the map_meta_cap. For this to work, the plugin must register the post type on the init hook with a priority less than 10,000. This feature works with the Custom Post Type UI plugin plugin but is not guaranteed to work with any other plugins.
If you are using the Custom Post Type UI plugin, when adding a custom post type, you must click View Advanced Options and change Capability Type to something other than post. For example, for a custom post type of Stories the capability could be story. You then need select the custom post type under the Force Mapping section of the Map Cap settings page.
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