Title: Strange Permissions and Not Really Integrated
Last modified: September 2, 2016

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# Strange Permissions and Not Really Integrated

 *  [aberglas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aberglas/)
 * (@aberglas)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/capability-model-broken/)
 * The basic package seems to work OK. But bbPress is also not that well integrated
   with WordPress. For example search is not integrated.
 * But most of all Blog Posts and Forums/Topics are completely unrelated. So should
   a user follow up a blog post with a comment or a forum post? It is not clear.
   Ideally Forum names and Blog taxonomies should be united somehow. A forum should
   mainly just be a different view of a blog. But in bbpress they are completely
   different objects.
 * (They are physically stored in the Posts table, but that does not actually count
   for much except maybe export/import.)
 * And if they are not integrated, apart from maybe some theming, then why not just
   use a separate, specialist forum package? Common usernames is really all that
   you get.
 * bbPress also contains a vast amount of code that does permissions somewhat differently
   from the rest of WordPress.
 * Approximately, it tries to have two roles per user, a normal wordpress one and
   an independent bbpress one. The magic “Auto Role” option can set the latter for
   all new users. At the bottom of the Admin Users dialog there is an option to 
   set the Forum Role.
 * There is something called “Dynamic Roles”. You can end up with capabilites that
   were not on your roles somehow. And for multisite, you get capabilities to all
   sites if you get capabilities to any site.
 * It all feels confused, with no less than three files named capability.php in 
   the distribution.

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