[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #44176: Un-map Privacy Capabilities

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#44176: Un-map Privacy Capabilities
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 Reporter:  desrosj                              |       Owner:  xkon
     Type:  defect (bug)                         |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  5.4
Component:  Privacy                              |     Version:  4.9.6
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  2nd-opinion has-patch dev-feedback   |     Focuses:
  has-screenshots reporter-feedback              |
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Comment (by Ov3rfly):

 Replying to [comment:33 xkon]:
 > Editors never had these caps ...
 >
 > I'm also not in favor of granting every Editor out there the Privacy
 capabilities by default especially since they didn't exist up to now.

 See rest of thread, e.g. "Example 1" in
 [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/44176?replyto=33#comment:4 comment
 4].

 > The purpose of doing this move is that the caps are then free to be
 assigned to any role so any website owner has the free choice to add these
 caps to their Editors if they like ..

 ..which would require manual changes to hundreds of sites and extensive
 testing and additional cost for clients to provide the features to those
 site.

 In realworld "WordPress as CMS" usage, nobody in charge of public visible
 content of the website is an administrator role. All these sites currently
 can not use the privacy features or even the "privacy page" functions.

 My request was/is: If an "auto-assign" for administrator roles is provided
 in the patch, see
 [https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/44176?replyto=33#comment:27
 comment 27], also an "auto-assign" of the caps to editor roles should be
 added.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/44176#comment:34>
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