Title: Read Exceptions Panel clarification
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Read Exceptions Panel clarification

 *  Resolved [Cars10](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shonu/)
 * (@shonu)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/read-exceptions-panel-clarification/)
 * Using the read Exceptions panel in the edit section helps me assigning read access
   to particular roles in the system, or restricting other roles. So far, so good.
 * …I played with Roles of users and apparently from Editor role on (just before
   admin) the Read Exceptions panel starts appearing.
    It seems connected with Capability
    - Pp AssignRoles
    - Pp Set Read Exceptions.
 * Apparently, the “Author” role is not meant to decide who shall (not) be able 
   to read the post, only Editor role and up.
 * But kow, what is the logic behind the default settings displayed initially?
 * When a editor sees the panel, the defaults are set to “NO access” ({All}…) for
   most Roles besides the editors role (e.g. Head Of School) and up (all the admins)
 * Still, after saving, the panel now shows all roles green??
    The post is in fact
   accessible for unauthenticated users. How to understand this? (bug?) Why do we
   not see green from the beginning?
 * And it is intentional, that a role can exclude its own role and make public being
   able to see a post, but as soon as a user is authenticated AND belongs to the
   excluded role, the post is gone ? Anonymous has more rights than an authenticated
   user with a role?
    Perhaps this is a setup that should be avoided as it is “politically
   incorrect”, but perhaps this is overlooked and could be restricted by an admin
   setting or capability?
 * Slowly, I understand the plugin more.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/press-permit-core/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/press-permit-core/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Kevin Behrens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevinb/)
 * (@kevinb)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/read-exceptions-panel-clarification/#post-4292088)
 * > Still, after saving, the panel now shows all roles green??
   >  The post is in 
   > fact accessible for unauthenticated users. How to understand this? (bug?) Why
   > do we not see green from the beginning?
 * The post is not accessible to them until you publish it.
 *  Thread Starter [Cars10](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shonu/)
 * (@shonu)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/read-exceptions-panel-clarification/#post-4292089)
 * Hi Kevin
 * thanks for the reply, but my confusion is that **prior** to publish, the read
   Exceptions show:
    Editor: (default:yes) Subscriber: (default:no) Super Admin:(
   default:yes) {All}: (default:no) {Anonymous}: (default:no) {Authenticated}: (
   default:no)
 * When I publish without touching the read restriction panel, all turn green:
    
   This Page Sub-Pages * Default:yes Default:yes
 * My question was, why the lights changed? I would expect wiothout me changing 
   anything, all statuses stay the same?
 *  Plugin Author [Kevin Behrens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevinb/)
 * (@kevinb)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/read-exceptions-panel-clarification/#post-4292096)
 * Before you publish the post, it is considered to be an unpublished draft. After
   publishing, it becomes readable.

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 * Last reply from: [Kevin Behrens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevinb/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/read-exceptions-panel-clarification/#post-4292096)
 * Status: resolved