[wp-hackers] current_user_can() and roles ?

[Dion Hulse (dd32)]

Also, Please do not use the level_* capabilities.
They're been deprecated since 2.0 and really need to go away (3.0  
intrduces a warning that they're deprecated too).

Rely on the string caps instead, for example, 'manage_options' is a pretty  
good choice most of the time, only admins have that, and that suits 90% of  
plugins.

On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:14:27 +1100, Stephen Rider  
<wp-hackers at striderweb.com> wrote:

>
> On Jan 6, 2010, at 1:33 PM, Frank Bueltge wrote:
>
>> The admin give other users a rolle, not rights and in my plugin it os:
>> the admin select the role and i will check only for this. Maybe i must
>> add a new capabilitie to the role, the select the admin. And then i
>> can check for the new object. A also then it is possiblt to add this
>> object to a new role "superman".
>
> Generally I have found that an existing capability is "close enough" to  
> the ability I want to add.  If your plugin is doing something truly  
> unique, though, you may think about actually adding a new capability.
>
> If you do that, don't forget to assign that Capability to one or more  
> Roles so somebody can actually do the thing!  ;-)
>
> (I'm actually going to have to do this soon with a plugin that I don't  
> even want *admins* to have direct access to.  I believe I'm going to end  
> up creating a new capability and new "super admin" role....)
>
> Regards,
>
> Stephen
>
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