[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #35704: Add Groups/Teams functionality to Core

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#35704: Add Groups/Teams functionality to Core
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 Reporter:  catchmyfame      |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:
Component:  Users            |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:  maybelater
 Keywords:                   |     Focuses:
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Changes (by dd32):

 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => maybelater
 * milestone:  Awaiting Review =>


Comment:

 I don't think this is something that would pass any form of a 80/20 test -
 it's not something that would realistically be useful to more than 80% (or
 20%) of users.

 The fact a plugin exists that can support this style of permission system
 is intentional - WordPress has very little capability management built in,
 we have the entire underlying architecture to allow it, but choose to
 instead allow a plugin to add the UIs for it instead.
 Plugins managing the UI allows for others to create different capability
 styles, be that extra Roles with custom capability sets, different
 permission styles (Groups), or allowing multiple users to have the edit
 capability for a single post. The many permutations are almost endless.

 For now, this isn't something that's going to be supported by WordPress
 core. A plugin is free to add or support it, it sounds like a pretty
 useful feature for some users, but it's not something that WordPress
 itself needs to maintain.

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