I’m defining a new user role called Proofreader and as the name says, users of this group should be able to read and also edit the posts and pages. But I do not want them to create new ones.
With my custom post types I can set a capability create_post -> create_{cpt_name} and set it to false for this user group. In the backend they now don’t see the add button, but can still edit the posts. That’s exactly what I want. Unfortunately I was unable to find a way to set this capability for the predefined CPT of WordPress (Posts & Pages). Also the Members plugin seems to be unable to restrict user roles of creating new posts while letting them edit.
While researching, I found, that this seems to be a big issue of WordPress which is not solved yet. Is this true?
If not, I would be really thankful if anyone could help me out with this… It would really be a solution of a big problem of my website!