Comments on: Users, roles, and capabilities in WordPress

By: WordPress Roles and Capabilities - Jean Galea | Web Designer and Developer in Malta | WordPress Consultant

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:16:57 +0000

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By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:43:43 +0000

I digged in to codex and find out what each capability does, your plugin will be rocking this side of Wordpress.

By: Random Joe

Random Joe — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:55:36 +0000

Question about the plugin….
So when a “Member” logins in does it take them to the Dashboard? Or to the site itself ?

What I need is a plugin that will require a visitor to register and then they will have to login to see any content at all and then I need to be able to assign permission as to who can see what.

Will this plugin do that?

By: Bjorn

Bjorn — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:24:54 +0000

Was this plugin ever released?

By: Ivan Gonzalez

Ivan Gonzalez — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:01:21 +0000

Hi Justin,
First of all, greetings for your great articles, you are very good teacher.
That said, i should ask you a question i’ve not seen resolved anyway.
Not hierarchical roles are more granular, but it could be very interested to make a role a inherits another role capabilities. I mean create a role by the sum of other roles (as group of capabilities).
Does it is possible any way? It is easy to do simple creating as much roles as needed, but in a site with multiple kind of memeberships, where every memberships lets or not a couple of capabilites, could be more comfortable to manage the always changing memberships and promotions (for example).

By: Chris K

Chris K — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:18:30 +0000

I thought i might mention what you’re dealing with here is Access Control Theory. In which classically you have users, roles, and resources. WordPress implements this poorly in my opinion, as ‘capabilities’ is really a merger of roles and resources.

Users define who does something
Roles define what can be done (usually create, read, update, delete)
Resources define what things are affected.

You can see this in capabilities as delimited by the underscore ‘edit’ is the role ‘themes’ is the resource. I think eventually WordPress is going to have to tease these two apart if it wants to stay competitive in the CMS market

By: James McGregor

James McGregor — Mon, 24 May 2010 00:01:25 +0000

Hi Justin, I just started using your plugin to solve an access problem with a community website I am building at http://camdenproducemarkets.com.au
I have to say it works a treat! You rock!
Thanks for creating this plugin .

Jim

By: Custom post types in WordPress

Custom post types in WordPress — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:21:00 +0000

[...] The capability_type is another catchall argument for several more specific arguments and defaults to post. It allows you to define a custom set of capabilities, which are permissions to edit, create, and read your custom post type. If you’re unfamiliar with capabilities, I highly recommend reading my guide on users, roles, and capabilities. [...]

By: BP

BP — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:47:52 +0000

Nice to see someone spending time on the more technical plugins, have taken up a few recommendations many, many thanks for your hard work. bp

By: John Glass

John Glass — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:47:47 +0000

Although I am not running the plugin your basic outlining of users, roles ect was incredible. Such a simple explanation that I can show my Mom understand a little more. Thank you