Role/Capability

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Role/Capability component

This is a subcomponent of the Users component.

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73 open tickets in the Role/Capability component

73 open tickets	defect (bug)	enhancement	feature request	task (blessed)
	9	6	0	0
Awaiting Review	23	10	7	0
Future Release	5	11	1	1

73 open tickets. Last 7 days: +0 tickets

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#36939 Role groups
#40214 Some WP instances prematurelly try to do capability tests, before the user object is loaded
#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.
#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
#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)
#52350 Add documentation about meta capabilities docs
#56373 La EDICION de Contenidos y los ROLES de Usuario

73 open tickets

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Open feature requests: 8 View list on Trac

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