[wp-hackers] [GSoC '14] bbPress per-forum moderation

Shitiz Garg mail at dragooon.net
Fri Mar 21 10:21:06 UTC 2014


Okay, I was wrong. This seems perfectly capable with plugins, I can use
$post global variable and user_has_caps filter similar to this proof of
concept <https://gist.github.com/Dragooon/9683271>. I'll quickly write a
proposal before the deadline


On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Shitiz Garg <mail at dragooon.net> wrote:

> By per post permission, it would extend to any custom post type or limited
> to bbPress? Now this is entirely possible for meta capabilities and rather
> simply but what about the general capabilities? Say I want to grant a
> specific user "reply" in a specific forum, I'd need to modify bbPress
> itself in order to pass the forum ID
> On Mar 21, 2014 9:47 AM, "Stephen Edgar" <stephen at netweb.com.au> wrote:
>
>> Hi Dragoon,
>>
>> Apologies I haven't got to this earlier,
>>
>> Indeed the project and idea still has merit.
>>
>> I've taken a quick look at your proof of concept.
>>
>> If you take a look at the work that previously gone into this idea in
>> bbPress ticket #459 you will see that we have created a custom taxonomy to
>> store the forum moderators and forums that they are moderators of.
>>
>> https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/459/459.4.diff
>>
>> We'd want to build out on that per the GSoC project idea to scope it out
>> further to also cover "per-post" permissions which would enhance the
>> flexibility of what we can and cannot do with the forum, topic and reply
>> custom post types.
>>
>> I suggest you create a proposal per the codex
>> http://codex.wordpress.org/GSoC2014#How_to_Apply
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Stephen Edgar
>> Melbourne, Australia
>>
>> Core commiter, contributor & moderator of #bbPress http://bbpress.org
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: wp-hackers [mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On
>> Behalf Of Shitiz Garg
>> Sent: Friday, 21 March 2014 9:20 AM
>> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
>> Subject: [wp-hackers] [GSoC '14] bbPress per-forum moderation
>>
>> Hello! A prospective GSoC student here, I was looking into per-forum
>> moderation and bbPress' trac issue #459<
>> https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/459> and I was wondering if
>> the idea still has any merit? I created this proof of concept <
>> https://gist.github.com/Dragooon/9674227> before realising that this
>> might not be valid anymore. As the deadline is approaching quite near, I'd
>> like some quick feedback! Thanks :)
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