A few more bug / compatibility fixes, prompted by user reports, warrant another Role Scoper release. The main problem was that, since WordPress 2.8, the settings cache for new users was stored without metagroup membership. That means if you assign content-specific roles based on a user’s WordPress role, newly created users would not be credited […]
Due to a misplaced source file, Role Scoper did not automatically re-activate following an auto-update to version 1.0.5 / 1.0.5.1. This is now corrected. Several bugs pertaining to categories are also fixed. This update is strongly recommended for WP-mu installations and configurations with limited Category Managers (non-Editors who are assigned the Category Manager role for […]
Role Scoper 1.0.5.1 is a minor bug fix release. Most of the fixes pertain to Group Roles; in some cases Group Category Roles were dropped when a new user was created or added to a group. The bigger news today occurred when my struggles with Tortoise SVN (a source code uploading tool) led to corruption […]
Friday afternoon, I released Role Scoper 1.0.4 to address the following issues: BugFix : XML-RPC support (ScribeFire, WLW) was broken for non-administrators BugFix : exclude_tree argument was ineffective in get_terms / wp_list_categories call BugFix : Category Restrictions were not inherited upon new category creation BugFix : User groups were unusable on DB servers that do […]
Role Scoper 1.0.3.4 solves the mystery of plugin deactivation following use of the WordPress “update automatically” feature. More precisely, it causes Role Scoper to be successfully reactivated following that update. For the technically curious… the failure was due to WordPress’ detection of a supplemental Role Scoper file (version_notice_rs.php) as a main plugin file. This was […]