[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:  reopened
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:
Component:  Users            |     Version:
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                   |     Focuses:
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Changes (by catchmyfame):

 * status:  closed => reopened
 * resolution:  maybelater =>


Comment:

 Please don't hijack this thread to promote your plugin. Also, no one would
 force you to configure groups ("I can't imagine installing WordPress and
 immediately needing to configure groups of users for any post, page, or
 media publishing purpose.") and many others have commented that this would
 be an excellent addition. You're not understanding the concept of groups
 as a simple container for multiple users to edit the same content, whereas
 now you're forced to make a 1-to-1 association between content and user.

 I would like to see WordPress have the simple, yet powerful, ability to
 let a user create content and be able to assign the author or owner to a
 group, not a single person, so that any member of the group can contribute
 and collaborate on it. It's a simple concept and lies at the heart of a
 true CMS. Yes other plugins exist that try and fill this hole, an other
 than Co-authors Plus (developed in part by Automattic) there are none that
 are widely used or actively supported. My suggestion also has nothing to
 do with BuddyPress.

 Again I ask you to keep this ticket open to continue this discussion
 instead of simply closing it for your convenience. It's a valid
 suggestion, and as I've been repeatedly told this is the place to post
 such requests. My first two posts in this thread sum up the case need and
 explain why we should not have to rely on plugins for this functionality.

 Replying to [comment:5 johnjamesjacoby]:
 > Anyone that stumbles into this ticket, please consider trying out my
 User Groups plugin:
 >
 > https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-groups/
 >
 > I agree with Dion, that this type of functionality does not seem to fill
 a current need inside of the greater WordPress project.
 >
 > BuddyPress also comes with User Group functionality, which is much more
 inline with why it may be desirable for users to be grouped, or group
 themselves.
 >
 > At the risk of playing the open/close game, I'm going to re-close this
 ticket, and make a motion that it only be reopened by a team lead when
 enough healthy discussion has occurred. Until then, there are reliable
 alternatives that hug very closely to WordPress core.
 >
 > Note also that the "maybelater" resolution is, I think, a proper
 designation for this ticket. It's currently a no-go, people are actively
 building plugins to provide this functionality, and maybe later when
 WordPress is bursting at the seams without this feature, we can reopen it,
 survey the landscape, and merge something in. (And we can keep this issue
 out of other milestones until then.)

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