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Capability Manager is a plugin that allows me to assign capabilities to each role such as read, edit, create, publish posts, publish pages.

For example, I do not want all membership levels to be able to create new pages but I do want one or two levels to be able to.

Can this be accomplished without that plugin? The posts or articles that I had read indicated I needed Capability Manager (or a similar) plugin in order to do this.

Information and download for Capability Manager is located at:

http://wordpress.org/extend/pl…..s/capsman/

(I am using the latest version, 1.3.2)

(By the way, all of this is a new installation, it is not an upgrade from a previous WP/SPF install.)

I could deactivate Capability Manager as you sggest and understand why you suggest it and had considered it on my own, however, I do not think it would be as simple to run that test as it sounds.

I believe that if I deactivate Capability Manager that WP will probably revert to the default roles (I think there were four of them). One reason that I did not just use them in the first place is that I have more than four membership types and levels. So, to run that test I think I would need to go into SPF and change settings in several different places to utilize those default roles, I would have to make numerous changes within WLM and maybe in WP itself as well and then after the test I would have to rebuild all of that.

I was hoping to avoid all of that as it was fairly confusing working through getting all of those pieces structured correctly in the first place.

Any other ideas before I consider going down that road?

I understand your suggestion, however, I believe that when you deactivate Capability Manager the roles are rolled back to the default WP roles and the added roles are lost. I may be wrong on the deactivation but so far the warnings I have come across leave that impression.

So, I believe from my limited understanding, that to test it I would need to set up one of the memberships to utilize one of the default roles and that to truly test the entire process would need to make that alteration in WP, SPF and WLM. Then after the test if I reactivated Capability Manager I would need to rebuild the roles and undo the changes I made to  WP, SPF and WLM. 

If a person can deactivate and later reactivate Capabilities Manager without losing the added roles that would eliminate part of the complexity of running that test, although I would still need to make the above mentioned changes in SPF and WLM to utilize a default role.

I have not found answers yet from my posts over on the WishList Member site and I have not been in a position yet to test a different role manager or to set up a membership type that uses the standard roles within WLM to see if SPF picks up those. (It does pick up the new member, just not the roles associated with it or added to it later.)

I was wondering if I went live with this configuration the way it is now and just manually added the roles in SPF for each membership purchase at the beginning, do you think the issue would be something a php programmer could resolve once I had some funds set aside to hire one?

Thanks.