Opened 5 years ago
Last modified 5 years ago
#48375 new enhancement
Introduce a separate capability for trashing a post
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johnbillion
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| Milestone: | Awaiting Review | Priority: | normal |
| Severity: | normal | Version: | |
| Component: | Posts, Post Types | Keywords: | granular-capabilities needs-patch |
| Focuses: | Cc: |
Description
Related: #41674
It's sometimes desirable to allow users to trash posts but not permanently delete them once trashed, nor empty the trash.
There should be a meta capability, trash_post|trash_posts, which by default maps to delete_post|delete_posts which is used when a post is trashed instead of deleted. This would allow a plugin to grant a user the ability to trash posts but not permanently delete them.
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@johnbillion If a user with this capability trashes a post, and the trash is set to automatically empty itself after X days, then users with only this capability would technically still be able to permanently delete a post (though not immediately) because
wp_scheduled_delete()does not check who trashed the post.Because this capability would map to
delete_post|delete_postsby default, this may be something that falls into plugin territory. But it came to mind thinking this one through and wanted to mention it here for thought.