[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #16714: Introduce capabilities for adding new posts

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#16714: Introduce capabilities for adding new posts
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 Reporter:  nacin            |       Owner:  casben79
     Type:  enhancement      |      Status:  accepted
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  3.2
Component:  Role/Capability  |     Version:
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch        |
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Comment (by kevinB):

 Replying to [comment:15 casben79]:
 > @kevinb: Interesting thought, this could be useful for plugin / theme
 authors as well.
 >
 > {{{
 > //Guilty untill proven innocent?
 >     $_wp_menu_nopriv[$data[2]] = true;
 >     if( is_array( $data[1] ) ){
 >       foreach( $data[1] as $cap ){
 >           if( current_user_can( $cap ) ){
 >               unset( $_wp_menu_nopriv[$data[2]] );
 >           }
 >       }
 >     } else {
 >       if ( current_user_can($data[1]) )
 >               unset( $_wp_menu_nopriv[$data[2]] );
 >     }
 > }}}
 >
 > And then:
 >
 > {{{
 > $menu[5] = array( __('Posts'), array( 'edit_posts' , 'create_posts' ) ,
 'edit.php', '', 'open-if-no-js menu-top menu-icon-post', 'menu-posts',
 'div' );
 > }}}
 >
 > What do you think?
 >
 >
 I think supporting creation-only usage of the full post edit form (with
 redirect back to dashboard following creation) would be nice.  But that
 would take some work in post.php also.  At the very least you would need
 to redirect back to the dashboard following post creation.  But wouldn't
 there also be some complications (edit_posts cap checking) due to auto-
 creation of new posts?

 As it stands in the patch now, a user with create_posts (but not
 edit_posts) sees no "Add New" menu link but can still access post-new.php
 by direct URL.

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