[wp-hackers] Regarding Status Pending...

[Jeremy Clarke]

Setting people to contributors isn't any harder than checking a box
that says "don't let this person publish", and it has the immense
benefit of already being factored into the UI and not taking any other
work. It also integrates gracefully with the role manager plugin
should people want more control (rather than being user-based, meaning
you'd have to edit every user if you changed your posting policy).
What you're describing sounds like it would end up being an outlier
option like the ugly 'visual editor' checkbox.

If anything the whole roles/capabilities thing needs to be
explained/exposed better in the interface so that it's clear to admins
what contributor/author/editor mean without them having to dig around
in the codex looking for definitions. The difference between the roles
has always seemed esoteric to me (because I didn't research it), but
it's very specific and with the new status:pending stuff it's already
very powerful.

For a start, adding a link to the codex page about roles wherever a
role <select> exists (add new user, edit user) would help make the
distiction clearer, though I guess WP has been avoiding that kind of
interface->documentation linkage so far.

Jeremy Clarke
http://simianuprising.com





On Nov 17, 2007 8:01 AM, spencerp <spencerp1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bob wrote:
> > You can do that now by assigning users the correct roles -
> >
> > "Author - Somebody who can publish and manage their own posts"
> > "Contributor - Somebody who can write and manage their posts but not
> > publish posts"
> >
> > See: http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
> >
> > You want to require a user's posts be approved first, simply make them
> > a 'Contributor'.  Problem solved.
> >
> > If you need finer control, use the Role Manager plugin.
>
> Yes, I agree with this. This wasn't about Roles though, this is about
> having a "feature" in the core, and being able to have some possible
> control behind THAT feature. I already had the Role Manager plugin
> before, and to be frank, it SUCKED. Manually having to choose tons of
> various "rights" for a user, sucks. The ability to control that new
> feature status shouldn't be a difficult task to handle. It's already
> "IN" the core now, why couldn't there be some control behind it? It
> could help minimize the "need" for plugins, and level setting
> itself...You shouldn't have to have a plugin, and or, set certain people
> to Contributors or whatever.
>
>
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