[wp-testers] User Level revisited (after a year)

Ryan Boren ryan at boren.nu
Thu Dec 1 01:40:57 GMT 2005


On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 03:52 +0530, Amit Gupta wrote:
> Ryan Boren <ryan at boren.nu> wrote:
> |  http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3243
> |  
> |  By popular demand.
>  
> but what I'm confused about is, why let 'Editor' edit posts belonging
> to that
> of 'Administrator'? As I look at it, I think that the older system of
> having
> userlevels where a user was able edit only his posts & those belonging
> to
> users on a lower level than himself. That way the admins can stay at
> levels
> 8-9 etc. & have some editor at level 6-7 who can edit posts of all
> authors
> which could've been kept below level 5.
>  
> would anyone shed some light on this? because as it is currently, why
> should
> the 'Editor' be able to edit posts of 'Administrator' which is a
> higher role than
> himself.

As Owen explained, there is no hierarchy.  You can either edit other
people's posts or you can't.

Ryan




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