Role/Capability

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Role/Capability component

This is a subcomponent of the Users component.

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65 open tickets in the Role/Capability component

65 open tickets	defect (bug)	enhancement	feature request	task (blessed)
	8	8	0	0
Awaiting Review	18	8	5	0
Future Release	5	11	1	1

65 open tickets. Last 7 days: +0 tickets

15 tickets that have no replies

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#28371 Use media post type object capabilities to allow user to see actions administration
#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
#42403 Introduce singular capabilities for network activating plugins multisite
#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

65 open tickets

Open bugs: 31. View list on Trac

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