Title: Couple Issues
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Couple Issues

 *  Resolved [SeeingBlueS2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seeingblues2/)
 * (@seeingblues2)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/couple-issues-3/)
 * First of all thank for you for this plugin. Hard to find anything out there like
   this that’s free and uncomplicated.
 * I did find some issues though:
 * I don’t believe a person can register with spaces in their name. By default I
   believe wordpress deletes the space, but if the user is manually created it will
   keep any spaces. Your plugin does not seem to keep users with spaces in their
   name when adding them to a group.
 * By default you plugin gives “Public” write permissions, that doesn’t mean much
   as they still have to login. By default “Logged in Users” do not have read nor
   write permissions yet they can do both. I suspect because of the “Public” permissions?
   This should be changed, never give write permissions by default especially to
   the public.
 * Now for some suggestions:
 * It would be nice if the permissions table was only accessible by administrators.
   Currently anyone you give access to has the ability to change that access. Give
   the option to limit this.
 * Would it be possible to limit what category a group could post to?
 * Thanks again.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-permissions/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-permissions/)

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 *  Thread Starter [SeeingBlueS2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seeingblues2/)
 * (@seeingblues2)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/couple-issues-3/#post-5072559)
 * anybody out there?
 *  Plugin Author [Michael George](https://wordpress.org/support/users/george_michael/)
 * (@george_michael)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/couple-issues-3/#post-5072568)
 * Sorry for the delay, I was on vacation.
 * 1) Yes, that does look a space in the username would cause the user to be discarded.
   I can’t say I’ve verified that, but it looks likely. I can switch out the regular
   express being used for one that only checks for the usual newline type characters
   instead of all white space characters. As wordpress doesn’t really support a 
   space in the username, though, I’m not going to check it, so use at your own 
   risk.
 * 2) Yeah, the “public” things are a bit of a misnomer. I tried to think of a better
   way to say it, but gave up and settled on public. What that really means is that
   the user must be logged in and have a wordpress role that would normally allow
   them to edit that post. So a contributor, by default, wouldn’t be able to edit
   anyone else’s posts besides their own, whereas an editor would be able to edit
   everyone’s, as long as this plugin gave permission as well. Admins can still 
   edit whatever, regardless of this plugin. I’m open to suggestions on wording 
   to use instead of “public”, but I wanted to keep it short.
 * 3) It should be that only someone who can edit a post via role and this plugin
   would be able to change the permissions. As this was originally an idea for use
   internal to my organization, there was enough trust that if you can edit it, 
   you can edit permissions as well. I could add in an option to only allow permissions
   changes via administrators, but that would mean that an admin would have to be
   contacted for each change. Depending on the site, that could get tedious. Nevertheless,
   I can pop it in if you want.
 * 4) Category limits. Interesting. I don’t see why this wouldn’t be possible. I
   think it could easily filter the categories before they appeared on the list 
   on the edit page. I’ll start checking into it.
 * I’ll start incorporating items 1 and 4, which shouldn’t take too much time (this
   is an ‘as time allows’ project though, so please be patient). If you have thoughts
   on 2 and 3, let me know and I’ll see what I can do.
 *  Plugin Author [Michael George](https://wordpress.org/support/users/george_michael/)
 * (@george_michael)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/couple-issues-3/#post-5072582)
 * Added new version to take care of all this, except for item 3, which is really
   not something that is a deal breaker. It’s more an issue of semantics. Still,
   if anyone ever has a suggestion for better wording, I’m listening.
 *  Thread Starter [SeeingBlueS2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seeingblues2/)
 * (@seeingblues2)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/couple-issues-3/#post-5072590)
 * Great! I will try it out. Didn’t patch yet because it looked like you only had
   1 bug fix in the change log.
 *  Plugin Author [Michael George](https://wordpress.org/support/users/george_michael/)
 * (@george_michael)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/couple-issues-3/#post-5072593)
 * You should be okay to upgrade. I had released one on Tuesday that had all the
   changes, but found a bug and fixed it yesterday. So snag 1.1.1 and you should
   be good to go.
 *  Plugin Author [Michael George](https://wordpress.org/support/users/george_michael/)
 * (@george_michael)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/couple-issues-3/#post-5072605)
 * Closing this thread due to lack of new activity.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/couple-issues-3/#post-5072605)
 * Status: resolved