Good catch!
On Wednesday, July 30, 2014, Glen Mazza <glen.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Taken care of -- Categories are now fully in control by authors, Blogroll > items are admin-only. > > Glen > > On 07/29/2014 07:57 AM, Glen Mazza wrote: > >> Hi Team, we're inconsistent right now in what we allow folks with >> "author" permission to do -- currently: >> >> Categories -- menu item is *visible* >> -- they can't add categories (throws a permission error) >> -- they can edit (rename) them >> -- they can delete them >> >> Bookmarks -- menu item is *invisible* >> -- they can still add bookmarks if they know the URL >> -- they can't edit them >> -- they can't delete them >> >> I'd like to make these consistent for each group above -- allow all or >> disallow all. For Bookmark, shut off the ability for them to add a >> bookmark, as I guess it was never intended for them to be able to, as they >> don't have a bookmark menu option anyway. >> >> For categories? Because the author is not allowed to alter other >> presentation matters such as the theme or (apparently) bookmarks, I'm >> leaning that the task of configuring categories should remain with the >> Admin, let the author suggest to the Admin the categories that the blog >> should have. I.e., take out the Categories tab for authors as well as >> their ability to edit/rename them. Or, are we going to allow authors to >> modify categories? In this case I'll need to open up Category Add for them >> to make it consistent. >> >> Regards, >> Glen >> >> >
