id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
16714,Introduce capabilities for adding new posts,nacin,casben79,"Many plugins need to be able to deny the creation of new items, particularly for CPT use cases. Unfortunately this is not easy to do.

I am suggesting a new cap for adding posts. Obviously, this has the potential to break quite a number of custom roles, but I think we can avoid that.

Instead, it would by default simply map to edit_posts. It wouldn't actually get assigned to any roles, so it's more or less a meta cap. (Only, without an $id, because it'd be a new post even pre-auto-draft in some cases.) But it then opens up the ability for this to be filtered by a plugin.

We could also potentially add this to the CPT capabilities array, but with the default being 'add_posts' => 'edit_posts'. Ultimately there are a few ways to implement this.

Ideally, the cap should be used for the admin menu, for post-new.php, for the 'Add New' button (no more clunky hiding it via CSS), XML-RPC, and the post handler for post-new.",task (blessed),closed,normal,3.5,Role/Capability,,normal,fixed,needs-docs has-patch commit,frank@… kevin@… johnbillion@… marko@… pauldewouters