NO, it does not make Role Manager obsolete. This is just another plugin that does it a bit different. Role Manager is a nice and good plugin from other author that just manages roles and capabilities in a different way. I think you can use the one that you like more.
At the current version, Capability Manager just lacks the management at user basis that Role Manager has. So, if you need to manage capabilities as per user, this plugin will not feet your needs yet. In this case, by now, I would recommend to use Role Manager.
IMMO and with the experience taken from years of systems management, I would recommend always to manage capabilities at Role level, not per user, as it’s more descriptive to know what roles a user has (and the capabilities for each role) than to know the capabilities you have set individually at every user.
The ‘per user’ management is being written now, as I want it to support more than one role per user, just the feature I missed in Role Manager.
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Ovidiu
(@ovidiu)
great.
the problem with rolemanager is that it seems unmaintained at the moment. Have you contacted that author? he seemed to only update it when REALLY requested, maybe he doesn’t want that project anymore, at least that is how his comments sounded 🙂
anyway, thanks for this new plugin.
