I am not sure if you have this implemented as yet if you do then ignore this comment.

I think you need to setup some form of wishlist system for this plugin so people can post features they want for various version releases etc. instead of posting it here in the comments section. Gives you a better history and feature control, and people could comment on a feature aspect or file bugs on a feature aspect.

I have some ideas but will wait for a wishlist system to put my ideas there.

Just my thought but good luck with this plugin.

Jai

I wanted to test Members in conjunction with VastHTML’s Forum Server plugin [fork of the WP Forum plugin] where I [and many others] have a need to be able to give user management capabilities to non-admin users in a secure and structured manner.

The main problem I’ve encountered seems to be one of logic and a lack of heirarchy in the scope assignments – and this may well be a WP problem rather than any issue in the Members plugin; thus if I create a new role of Moderator, which is effectively a clone of the Editor role, and then assign create_user edit_user and delete_user rights to that Moderator role then, as the “Members” plugin currently functions, any Moderator can now create another Moderator or an Administrator level user, or promote themselves to be an Administrator.

This is logically and functionally wrong as far as running a WP site is concerned, even if in coding terms it makes clear logical sense.

Any given Role – when assigned the required capabilities – should be able to manage the community of users below their own level of capability, but should have no ability to do anything to or with those Roles that are of equal or higher capability, let alone create users of higher capability or promote themselves to such a higher level. I use the concept of higher and lower levels of capability in a loose descriptive and vernacular sense.

That’s my first wishlist item; off to play a bit more with other functionality in Members.

Naming suggestion: short and sweet – WP-MP

All the best,

Robert

Is there a way to prevent that a role has access to all the images in the media library? I have different photographers uploading images. The images are published by add them into a post. Of course the photographer should only have access to its own pictures.

A media library where each user can manage their own picutres and post ony their own pictures… is something like that possible?

Thanks a lot for your feedback.

Serge

By the way – keep up the good work Justin, I have been following your site for a very long time and your contribution to the WordPress community is much appreciated. I have learned loads – for instance your early, detailed coverage of taxonomies was very useful and I was able to learn more from your couple of posts on it that anywhere else (including the Codex!!).

By the description, I thought it has the features to manage the different roles from within the options page. But I dont see anything like that.

Does this have to be done via coding or through the interface?

Do you have any documentation available? (I know it may be a bit early to do so)

This is something that I have been looking for, and was going to take the risk in implementing online. But if you could tell me how i can actually use it, that would be great.

K