[wp-hackers] WordPress, authors and posts

[ayj & j]

Some good points IMO. These options on edit rights would be a good candidate
for an admin Options page. One I would particularly like to see is admin
allowed to edit / delete / view other peoples drafts. The inexperienced
non-admin user / visitor to a WP site can easily create a whole heap of
empty or almost empty drafts (by accidentally hitting Save instead of
Publish) which they never notice or tidy up.

Andrew


----- Original Message -----
From: "Carthik Sharma" <carthik at gmail.com>
To: <hackers at wordpress.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 8:33 AM
Subject: [wp-hackers] WordPress, authors and posts


> There have been frequent questions about :
>
> 1) Why a user cannot view/edit other authors' drafts (same level users)
> 2) Why admin cannot edit other users' drafts
> 3) Why , when an author is deleted, the posts are deleted, and why
> posts are "non-transferable"
>
> http://mosquito.wordpress.org/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000038
>
> is an example.
>
> I think it needs to clarified as to how wordpress treats posts as the
> "property" of their authors.
>
> One small source of irritation is the fact that the admin user can
> edit others' published posts, but not the drafts. Maybe this should be
> resolved one way or the other (a. admin can't see/edit other authors'
> posts/drafts , or, b. admin can see/edit other authors' posts and
> drafts)
>
> The case for users of the same level being able to edit each others'
> drafts is to enable "workgroup" style editing of content before it is
> published.
> The case against it is the integrity of a user's data/drafts.
>
> I thought of posting this as a bug note for the above bug but thought
> it better to post it here. Pardon me if should have rather just posted
> it as a bug note. :)
>
> --
> Carthik Sharma
> Ph.D. Fellow
> University of Central Florida
> Homepage: http://carthik.net
>
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