[wp-hackers] Capabilities and Plugins

[Mark Jaquith]

As it is now, there is no way for a third party role manager plugin  
(like Owen's... is there another one?) to know about the capabilities  
that a plugin uses unless that plugin adds the capability to an  
existing role.

I can think of two solutions:

An easy way to add the plugin's capability to all roles with  
manage_options capability (which is, IMO, the best way to determine  
the most authoritative users on the WP install).  Then, the role  
manager plugin will display that capability and it can be added to  
other roles.

Or, create a new function that allows plugins to register their  
capabilities (in memory).  Then, a role manager plugin could merge  
capabilities defined in the database with default capabilities plus  
capabilities registered by plugins on the fly.

As it is, the plugin would have to have its own mini role management  
code, which seems wasteful to me.

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Mark Jaquith
http://txfx.net/