I’m pleased and relieved to announce the launch of Press Permit, a new content permissions engine for WordPress. It’s a structural overhaul that warrants being called a new plugin. Many of the longstanding requests/complaints about Role Scoper needed this type of a re-invention. The restriction model is entirely new, based on custom post statuses and […]
Some users who upgraded to Role Scoper 1.3.36 will need to manually move or delete the plugin files to restore plugin operation. The problem is with the directory structure of the version 1.3.36 zip file – not with the code itself. For approximately 4 hours today, the Role Scoper download zip file had files nested […]
A serious conflict has been identified between the Role Scoper and Edit Flow plugins. Edit Flow defines a custom taxonomy called “post_status”. The problem occurs when Role Scoper Options are configured to support term-specific Roles and Restrictions for this taxonomy. Under those conditions, when a new or existing post is saved with “Private” visibility, the […]
A Role Scoper plugin update (version 1.3.28) is now available to address the following issues: WP 3.1 BugFix : Role Options, Role Defaults menu items were not available on 3.1 multisite Feature : Filter “Add New” links out of WP Admin bar if user lacks site-wide capability Navigation Menus Feature : Nav Menu Manager role […]
Sites using Role Scoper 1.3.x to selectively allocate page editing access to non-Editors should upgrade to version 1.3.12 to avoid having stored page parent values corrupted. In some cases, this bug caused the parent value to be set to one of the page’s descendants… yielding infinite loops in the Edit Pages listing. I will post […]