User:RobLa/Access Control Development

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

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 permissions from lowest to highest level of access, without any branching.

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

For complete documentation of the status quo, see User Levels

Proposals

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

Discussions

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

Prior Art

MediaWiki 1.5 User Rights system
TextDrive system
Comparison of several systems

Codex