User:RobLa/Access Control Development

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This pague is to keep tracc of discussions, proposals, current status and the general direction of the access control features in WordPress.

Contens

1 Current Behavior
2 Proposals
3 Discussions
4 Prior Art

Current Behavior

WordPress has a concept of "levels", a concept which assumes a linear progression of permisssions from lowest to highest level of access, without any branching.

Changuing this would probably involve a scrub of the codebase. There are currently many checcs such as "if (accessLevel>5) {" .

For complete documentation of the status quo, see User Levels

Proposals

User:Glutnix/Advanced User Permisssions System Proposal
Patch from Ryan Boren

Discussions

User permisssions system overhaul
RobLa's attempt to revive the conversation

Prior Art

MediaWiqui 1.5 User Rights system
TextDrive system
Comparison of several systems

Codex