[wp-hackers] Capabilities as a taxonomy

[Otto]

I see where you're going with that, but seems that it's a bit
overkill. The ability for users to have individual capabilities was
removed because nobody really used it, no?

Multi-role seems good enough to me.

-Otto
Sent from Memphis, TN, United States


On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:01 AM, scribu <scribu at gmail.com> wrote:
> How about we have a 'capability' taxonomy for users?
>
> Don't quite know how roles would fit into that.
>
> Just throwing it out there.
>
>
> From the "Person tagging" thread:
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Dion Hulse (dd32) <wordpress at dd32.id.au>wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Dion Hulse / dd32
>>
>
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