[wp-hackers] Person tagging?

[Dion Hulse (dd32)]

On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:38:02 +1100, Ozh <ozh at planetozh.com> wrote:

>> > I assume it's a custom taxonomy method, but I was wondering if there
>> > was a plugin to do it or if it's custom code or what...
>
>
> Maybe something similar could be used for user management? User roles in
> WP are like old school categories ie someone is either "Administrator"
> *or* "Editor", instead of a more flexible system like tags in which
> someone could be "Administrator", "Product Reviewer" *and* "Forum Helper"

WordPress roles currently support a user being in multiple Roles, Thats  
just not exposed in the UI.

Theres been a discussion related to striping that functionality from core  
however, as its rarely used (rarely known) adn introduces a certain  
ammount of overhead.

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