Role/Capability

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66 open tickets in the Role/Capability component

66 open tickets	defect (bug)	enhancement	feature request	task (blessed)
	8	6	0	0
5.7	1	0	0	0
Awaiting Review	20	8	6	0
Future Release	5	10	1	1

66 open tickets. Last 7 days: +0 tickets

15 tickets that have no replies

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#32085 Less ambiguous dashboard access. Suggested new capability: access_dashboard
#36939 Role groups
#40214 Some WP instances prematurelly try to do capability tests, before the user object is loaded
#40320 Feature idea: Rename roles
#41701 Introduce singular capabilities for further management of individual plugins
#41703 Introduce singular capabilities for networknetwork (versus site, blog) activation and deactivation of individual plugins multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each blog (wp_posts becomes wp_0_posts). See also network, blog, site
#42405 Introduce singular capabilities for enabling individual themes on Multisite administration multisite
#45879 WP_User::set_role() does not remove previous roles multisite
#47897 Introduce method to introduce new roles and caps independently of db upgrades.
#48511 issue with custom post typeCustom Post Type WordPress can hold and display many different types of content. A single item of such a content is generally called a post, although post is also a specific post type. Custom Post Types gives your site the ability to have templated posts, to simplify the concept. capabilities administration
#49287 Users with no page deletion capabilities can delete homepage in multisite multisite
#49345 User with adminadmin (and super admin) privileges cannot edit some pages/posts
#50260 Multisite – Getting actual user capabilities with get_role_caps() different with current_user_can() multisite
#51651 The `read_post` metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. capability returns an incorrect result for the inherit post status.
#52247 Author role unable to set featured imageFeatured image A featured image is the main image used on your blog archive page and is pulled when the post or page is shared on social media. The image can be used to display in widget areas on your site or in a summary list of posts. (Error 403)

1 ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. slated for 5.7

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#52076 Checking anonymous user's exist capability returns inconsistent results across functions.

66 open tickets

Open enhancements: 24 View list on Trac
Open tasks: 1 View list on Trac
Open feature requests: 7 View list on Trac

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