Disable Editing of Event Categories

[Denise Crosbie]

I see this post where this user wants to do the exact same thing I do – limit the editing of event categories based on user role:
https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/user-capabilities-for-categories/

You say we can “call register_taxonomy() a second time and overwrite the capabilities”. Can you give me some code to do this? I am quite familiar with editing wordpress code, however I have never taken the time to learn about taxonomies and capabilities.

A code sample for calling register_taxonomy() to make edit categories only available to certain users (in my case authors) would be super useful.

[Denise Crosbie]

K, I m obviously impatient so I dug around in the code and read up on taxonomies and came up with the following tidbit in functions.php which seems to be working to only allow admins access to edit event categories. Hopefully it doesn’t break something, but I tested and it seems to work great.

function my_custom_init() {
//make it so that non-admin users can not edit event categories
register_taxonomy( ‘tribe_events_cat’, ‘tribe_events’, array(
‘hierarchical’ => true,
‘update_count_callback’ => ”,
‘rewrite’ => array( ‘slug’=> ‘events/’ . sanitize_title( __( ‘category’, ‘tribe-events-calendar’ ) ), ‘with_front’ => false ),
‘public’ => true,
‘show_ui’ => true,
‘labels’ => array(
‘name’ => __( ‘Event Categories’, ‘tribe-events-calendar’ ),
‘singular_name’ => __( ‘Event Category’, ‘tribe-events-calendar’ ),
‘search_items’ => __( ‘Search Event Categories’, ‘tribe-events-calendar’ ),
‘all_items’ => __( ‘All Event Categories’, ‘tribe-events-calendar’ ),
‘parent_item’ => __( ‘Parent Event Category’, ‘tribe-events-calendar’ ),
‘parent_item_colon’ => __( ‘Parent Event Category:’, ‘tribe-events-calendar’ ),
‘edit_item’ => __( ‘Edit Event Category’, ‘tribe-events-calendar’ ),
‘update_item’ => __( ‘Update Event Category’, ‘tribe-events-calendar’ ),
‘add_new_item’ => __( ‘Add New Event Category’, ‘tribe-events-calendar’ ),
‘new_item_name’ => __( ‘New Event Category Name’, ‘tribe-events-calendar’ )
),
‘capabilities’ => array(
‘manage_terms’ => ‘update_themes’,
‘edit_terms’ => ‘update_themes’,
‘delete_terms’ => ‘update_themes’,
‘assign_terms’ => ‘update_themes’
)
));
}
add_action(‘init’, ‘my_custom_init’);

[Jonah]

Hi manitobathunder,

Nice solution! Looks like you’re all set here then. Please let us know if you need help with anything else.

Thanks,
Jonah

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