[wp-hackers] Capabilities and Plugins

[Mark Jaquith]

On Mar 5, 2006, at 9:19 AM, Owen Winkler wrote:

> Granting caps automatically sounds like a bad idea to me.   
> Logically speaking, why have a new capability at all, if you're  
> going to grant the cap to only those roles that already have  
> manage_options?

Well, it could be used as a "starting point" so that the capability  
could be delivered to "lesser" users.   Having a method in the core  
for registering capabilities would be much better, of course.

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Mark Jaquith
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