The Role Scoper Usage Guide has been updated to include a How To section with step-by-step instructions. This currently covers common tasks in the configuration of read access for posts and pages. Future document revisions will cover other topics, including post/page/category-specific editing roles and page parent restriction.
Jennifer Zelazny just informed me of a bug which occurs when Role Scoper is configured to apply WordPress-defined (“WP”) roles in the Term and Object scope. With Role Type set to “WP”, saving any page as private causes all pages to be are hidden from anonymous non-admin users. I plan to pursue a fix for […]
Here’s a Role Scoper update you probably don’t need. Thanks to a report by Aces, I have removed three cases of PHP short tags from the plugin code. That means instead of typing <?php , I instead typed <? . PHP knows what I meant, but on a minority of servers is configured to pretend that […]
Which news is more exciting: Role Scoper’s entry in the weblog tools collection WP Plugin Competition, or the fact that I have finally produced some documentation? Comments are welcome. Yes, this download includes a Role Scoper Usage Guide. This is also contained in the download file. The document will still require chewing and may cause […]
Several elusive, server-specific or configuration-specific bugs are now eradicated in Role Scoper 0.9.17 Although these will not affect all installations, chances are there’s something here to make your blog’s role configuration more consistent and reliable. fixed: in blogs that originated with WP < 2.3, some categories were excluded from the sidebar listing fixed: some inconsistencies […]