[wp-hackers] Disabling Tools->Export

[Harry Metcalfe]

Yup, that's what I'm suggesting - but agree that one-off core editing is 
bad. Hence happy to write a patch, if it would be accepted.

Harry


On 27/06/12 13:31, Christopher Ross wrote:
> Harry, I hesitate to ever suggest changing core files but the only way I could think of to ensure the export can't run *ever* would be to edit /wp-admin/export.php and remove the functionality.
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> On 2012-06-27, at 8:47 AM, Harry Metcalfe wrote:
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>> Hello,
>>
>> We've found that some of our corporate clients have concerns about the ability for their staff to mass-export data from the WP backend.
>>
>> I realise we can (and have) removed the administrator role's capability to do that, but I wondered if it might be useful to add a constant that disables it? There's a bit of concern that a plugin could re-add the capability without us noticing. Something that works like DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT would be more robust.
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>> Very happy to submit a patch if people think it's a good idea.
>>
>> Harry
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