User Role Editor Pro version 4.9

User Role Editor Pro version 4.9 is available for download.
The list of updates includes:

  • New tab “Default Roles” was added to the User Role Editor settings page. It is possible to select multiple default roles to assign them automatically to the new registered user.
  • CSS and dialog windows layout various enhancements.
  • ‘members_get_capabilities’ filter was applied to provide better compatibility with themes and plugins which may use it to add its own user capabilities.
  • Option was added to download jQuery UI CSS from the jQuery CDN.
  • Bug was fixed: Plugins activation assess restriction section was not shown for selected user under multi-site environment.

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WordPress User Levels were deprecated just partially

Do you remember what are the WordPress user levels? If you don’t, then read this “User Levels” article at the WordPress Codex. As you may noted, at the begin of the article author says that user levels were finally deprecated in WordPress 3.0. Is it the full true? It is not, at least for the moment I write this post or saying in terms of WordPress versions, WordPress 3.8 still partially uses user levels.

I discovered that searching the answer for “User Role Editor”‘s user support request. User alby54 complains there, that when he tries to change the author of the post, he does not see users with new custom role assigned at the “Authors” dropdown list menu. Read more WordPress User Levels were deprecated just partially