how to allow simple user like author in wp to add custom post type in wp-admin?

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1. Basically you can pass this “capabilities” parameter while registering your custom post type :

   ...,
   'capabilities' => array(
           'publish_posts' => 'read',
           'edit_posts' => 'read',
           'edit_others_posts' => 'edit_others_posts',
           'delete_posts' => 'delete_posts',
           'delete_others_posts' => 'delete_others_posts',
           'read_private_posts' => 'read',
           'edit_post' => 'read',
           'delete_post' => 'read',
           'read_post' => 'read',
           ),
   ...
   

   Assuming that a “suscriber” has just the read capability, he will then be able to access the CPT menu in the admin, list all the CPTs, …

   But this may not be very safe because the read capability has nothing to do with what the suscriber will actually do.

   It may be better to create a new capability bunch as it’s described in WordPress documentation (http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type).

   You can find a very helpful post if you want to create more accurate capabilities on a per post basis.

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