[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #10201: Switch roles to use single role, and no user-specific caps

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#10201: Switch roles to use single role, and no user-specific caps
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 Reporter:  Denis-de-Bernardy  |       Owner:                
     Type:  task (blessed)     |      Status:  assigned      
 Priority:  normal             |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Role/Capability    |     Version:  2.8           
 Severity:  normal             |    Keywords:  2nd-opinion   
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Changes (by apljdi):

 * cc: apljdi (added)


Comment:

 Added my +1 for most of this discussion.

 The only thing I don't like about the proposed changes is the "no user-
 specific caps" parts. I use this feature extensively. If I didn't have it
 I'd be doubling the Roles on one of my sites, and I've already doubled the
 Roles that ship with WP. Since these extra Roles would be identical, save
 one or two caps, to already existing Roles that seems pointless. I also
 have a case where a user needs to be in a particular Role because that is
 here primary function on the site but that user is also the site, and
 business, owner and so needs far more permissions than the average user in
 the role. I could assign multiple Roles but since that is going away, that
 won't work for long.

 It occurs to me that I may be looking at this backwards from some of you,
 maybe even most of you, in thinking of capabilities as being primary and
 roles as being a secondary but useful and convenient way to group
 capabilities.

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