Reply To: Roles and Capabilities in bbPress 2.2
Ok so after digging and reading for many hours, getting a bit more into the situation, I’ve found answers to my questions above. So now I guess I’d just like to chime in to help find the best solution.
Members plugin
As I understand it, Justin’s Members plugin has pretty much fixed WP’s handling of capabilities by saving these roles in wp_usermeta as if they were capabilities, and allowing the assignment of capabilities to roles, instead of assigning them to individual user (which is just mad).
Even though WP already supports multiple roles per user, its own user edit form sabotages this by removing all but one role if you click “save”.
So it seems to me that if (hopefully when) the Members plugin become part of core, there shouldn’t be any need for bbPress to introduce a role handling interface – instead it would just add to the confusion, which I think is the case now, even though I realize that it is a valiant effort to fix a problem with WP core at this point in time.
Solution?!
So wouldn’t all this be solved right now by just modifying WP’s user edit form to allow for multiple role assignment?
