Roles: Unclear on descriptions

I highly recommend that role manager plugin moshu linked. I’ll explain a bit why you would like it. Firstly, it indicates each specific function that is enabled for each role. Secondly, it let’s you click on or off each individual function. Don’t want an Editor to be able to change categories? click it off. Thirdly, you can create new custom roles, and specifically select what that role can do.

It’s hugely useful for knowing what a role can do, and hugely powerful in customizing specifically what each role, and therefore what each user can do.

And it comes with a free bag of chips*.

*Note, free offer is not actually a bag or chips, nor is it an offer.

I combine the role manager and limit categories plugins to do what you describe. You can create a role and assign the categories to that role. Then just assign the appropriate user to that role. Although it’s an extra step, it’s more powerful in the end. You can easily have two people with the same access, and treat them as a team.

When you say they are restricted to posting in their own categories, do you mean they each get a uniquely named category? Perhaps you don’t need categories, but instead do your page display based on users. In other words, have everyone post to the default category, and have links in the side bar for that users posts. Did that make sense?