alleyinteractive / wp-caper
Fluently distribute capabilities to roles in WordPress.
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Requires
- php: ^8.2
- alleyinteractive/composer-wordpress-autoloader: ^1.0.0
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README
Caper
provides a fluent interface for distributing post type, taxonomy, or generic primitive capabilities to roles in WordPress.
Installation
Install the latest version with:
composer require alleyinteractive/wp-caper
Basic usage
An invocation of Caper
takes the form of "<grant to|deny to>
<these roles>
<these capabilities>
."
Caper
can distribute primitive capabilities directly:
<?php use Alley\WP\Caper; Caper::grant_to( 'editor' )->primitives( 'edit_theme_options' ); Caper::deny_to( 'administrator' )->primitives( 'manage_options' );
Caper
can also distribute the primitive capabilities associated with a post type or taxonomy. For example:
<?php use Alley\WP\Caper; Caper::grant_to( 'author' )->caps_for( 'page' ); Caper::deny_to( 'editor' )->caps_for( 'category' );
which grants users with the author
role all capabilities for the page
post type, and it denies users with the editor
role all capabilities for the category
taxonomy. (Be sure to read the section on ensuring unique post type and taxonomy capability types to avoid unintentionally modifying capabilities for other object types.)
When granting capabilities to a post type or taxonomy, a subset of those capabilities can be denied, or vice versa. For example:
<?php use Alley\WP\Caper; Caper::grant_to( 'author' ) ->caps_for( 'page' ) ->except( 'delete_posts' ); // Pass "generic" keys; the actual capability names will be determined automatically. Caper::deny_to( 'editor' ) ->caps_for( 'category' ) ->except( 'assign_terms' ); // Pass "generic" keys; the actual capability names will be determined automatically.
which grants users with the author
role all capabilities for the page
post type except for the page
capability corresponding to delete_posts
, and it denies users with the editor
role all capabilities for the category
taxonomy except for the category
capability corresponding to assign_terms
.
Alternatively, an exclusive set of post type or taxonomy capabilities can be granted or denied:
<?php use Alley\WP\Caper; Caper::deny_to( 'editor' ) ->caps_for( 'category' ) ->only( 'delete_terms' ); Caper::grant_to( 'author' ) ->only( 'create_posts' ) // `only()` and `except()` can occur in either order. ->caps_for( 'page' );
which denies author
users all capabilities for the page
post type except for the capability corresponding to delete_posts
, and it grants editor
users role all capabilities for the category
taxonomy except for the capability corresponding to assign_terms
.
Multiple post types or taxonomies can be passed to caps_for()
. Capabilities will be granted or denied identically for all passed object types, including exceptions or exclusives:
<?php use Alley\WP\Caper; Caper::grant_to( 'author' ) ->caps_for( [ 'post', 'page' ] ); Caper::grant_to( 'contributor' ) ->caps_for( [ 'post', 'category' ] ); Caper::deny_to( 'editor' ) ->caps_for( [ 'post', 'page' ] ) ->except( 'edit_posts' ); Caper::deny_to( 'administrator' ) ->caps_for( [ 'page', 'category' ] ) ->only( [ 'edit_posts', 'edit_published_posts', 'manage_terms' ] );
Capabilities also can be granted or denied to all roles in one shot:
<?php use Alley\WP\Caper; Caper::grant_to_all()->primitives( 'moderate_comments' ); Caper::deny_to_all()->primitives( 'activate_plugins' );
The grant_to_all()
and deny_to_all()
methods can be combined with the then_grant_to()
and then_deny_to()
methods to "reset" capabilities across roles before systematically redistributing them. For example:
<?php use Alley\WP\Caper; Caper::grant_to_all() ->caps_for( 'post' ) ->then_deny_to( [ 'subscriber', 'contributor' ] ); Caper::deny_to_all() ->caps_for( 'category' ) ->then_grant_to( 'administrator' );
Internally, the then_grant_to()
and then_deny_to()
methods create new Caper
instances that combine the newly supplied roles and previously supplied primitives or object types.
Because each Caper
instance modifies user capabilities by adding a filter to user_has_cap
, the second of two created instances will apply its distribution of capabilities after the first instance.
The priority of the user_has_cap
filter for any Caper
instance can be modified with the at_priority
method:
<?php use Alley\WP\Caper; Caper::grant_to( 'editor' )->primitives( 'manage_options' )->at_priority( 99 );
Ensuring unique capability types
Caper
does not attempt to determine whether the post type or taxonomy capabilities it distributes are unique to that object type.
For example:
<?php use Alley\WP\Caper; \register_post_type( 'review', [ // ... 'capability_type' => 'post', ] ); Caper::deny_to( 'editor' )->caps_for( 'review' );
will also deny editors capabilities for the post
post type. Registering post types with distinct capability_type
arguments and taxonomies with capability
argument arrays is recommended:
<?php \register_post_type( 'review', [ // ... 'capability_type' => 'review', ] ); \register_taxonomy( 'rating', 'review', [ // ... 'capabilities' => [ 'manage_terms' => 'manage_ratings', 'edit_terms' => 'edit_ratings', 'delete_terms' => 'delete_ratings', 'assign_terms' => 'assign_ratings', ] ] );