We have a need to align our use of extra wordpress roles and the itthinx groups in the itthinx plugin. We have roles being used in our sidebar menu and groups being used in the wordpress users page and the wordpress page edit content page. We need to continue to be able to access and edit wordpress roles as well as itthinx groups in wordpress users profile and wordpress edit content pages/posts. Is there an extension or setting I’m missing or another way to accomplish this alignment?
If not, I am requesting a new feature of the itthinx groups plugin to implement an approach to the alignment by an option setting and changes to the respective pages (wordpress users profile and wordpress edit pages/posts) to return the wordpress role features and add the groups editing features instead of replacing wordpress roles.
Otherwise, a setting to allow wordpress roles to be managed exactly in alignment with itthinx groups would be a highly valuable solution as well.
Plugin Author
Kento
(@proaktion)
Hi,
You seem to confuse an aspect of Groups. It does not replace WordPress roles, these continue to work as usual.
For the part where you would like to synchronize user roles with corresponding groups, this plugin assigns newly registered users to groups named after the role(s) – it will create the groups if they don’t exist: https://github.com/itthinx/groups-role-registration
Note that it will not apply this to existing users, you would need to do this using the bulk features. It’s very easy though, please see the notes on bulk actions here: http://docs.itthinx.com/document/groups/memberships/
I would certainly recommend to review why you would want to have a direct mapping between roles and groups, in most cases I have seen, it wasn’t even necessary. Feel free to explain further.
Cheers
