Some of you may have noticed that since installing Role Scoper Release Candidate 9, WordPress has stopped storing Post Revisions. In reality, the revisions were stored but a recently added Page Parent filter had the side effect of wiping out the legitimate post_parent value, which WordPress uses to tie a revision to the corresponding published […]
Role Scoper rc9.9215 is now available to fix several bugs. They will not apply to everyone, but are probably driving you crazy if they do. Most of the issues are implementation-specific or even server-specific. Most significantly, Category Restrictions could become ineffective if Role Scoper’s db cleanup code failed following a Category deletion. (That cleanup code […]
Anyone using default Restrictions for Categories, Pages or Posts should upgrade to today’s updated Role Scoper version. Beginning with RC9.9211, a new bug in the Bulk Restriction administration form prevented the correct display of the “restricted” caption when a default restriction has no corresponding unrestrictions. Your existing restrictions were not affected, but administration became very […]
Once again, user feedback has proven that a Role Scoper release candidate slightly unprepared for unsupervised flight. The good news is that, thanks to such prompt support forum activity, the new-found bugs are already confirmed fixed. Thanks to those of you who appreciate the permission control enough to ride these updates out. I still think […]
Role Scoper has made a lot of progress in dishing out permissions for WordPress Posts and Pages any way you want to slice them. Today marks the opening of a new horizon: content-specific roles for your 3rd party plugins. What better target for this first invasive procedure than NextGen Gallery, the most popular plugin whose […]