Unable to add/remove tags when editing a post

[awu]

Hello,

I configured a user who has the Editor role and manage_categories permission enabled. This user is restricted to edit posts for category ID = 3 (following the instructions here: https://www.role-editor.com/allow-user-edit-selected-posts/).

What to do: “Allow”
with category/taxonomy ID: 3

The user is able to see and edit posts that belong to category ID 3. When editing/creating a post, however, they are unable to add or remove tags. The API call to fetch tags returns an empty array:

/wp-json/wp/v2/tags?per_page=20&orderby=count&order=desc&_fields=id,name&search=test&_locale=user => []

Removing the value 3 from “with category/taxonomy ID” fixes the tag issue but then the user is able to edit all posts.

Since this role has the manage_categories permission, the user is able to make edits to tags and categories by visiting:

Posts -> Tags
Posts -> Categories

If the user visits Posts -> All Posts and immediately visits the Tags or Categories dashboard, there will be 0 results. Refreshing the page will show the list of all tags and/or categories.

WordPress 5.7
User Role Editor Pro 4.59.2

[Vladimir]

Hi,

It seems as expected behavior. Restriction by category ID is global for all taxonomies. So when you all to see at backend and edit only posts with category (taxonomy) ID=3, you automatically prohibit editing posts with any other taxonomy ID. Thus use can not add to the post new tags/taxonomies.

As about 0 items at the tags or categories page, it is a result of URE’s internal caching. But if you limit user to edit post only with the restricted list of existing taxonomies – you should not allow him to edit them. You have to delegate this function to another user according to my logic. So taxonomy editing pages should not be available to a user restricted such way.

[awu]

Hi Vladimir,

Thanks for the explanation. Are there any workarounds when using URE that will allow the user to tag and/or categorize the post?

Ideally:

User is restricted to create and edit posts that have category ID 3
User should be able to add/remove tags to these posts

[Vladimir]

Hi,

Currently there is no such workaround. Restriction is applied to all existing taxonomies at once.
I will think how to exclude selected taxonomies from the restriction using custom filter and apply this to one of the future versions.

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