wp-SwimTeam » Ideas http://www.wp-swimteam.org A WordPress plugin for swim team management Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:21:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Exploring Roles and Capabilities http://www.wp-swimteam.org/2010/06/10/exploring-roles-and-capabilities/ http://www.wp-swimteam.org/2010/06/10/exploring-roles-and-capabilities/#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:58:48 +0000 Mike Walsh http://www.wp-swimteam.org/?p=367 I’ve had a request from my team, the MacDolphins, to be able to send e-mail to the parents of specific age groups.  We do a number of activities that are limited to older kids or only for a specific age group so I’ve been aware of this need for a while.  Unfortunately I don’t have an easy way to solve it.

I think the WordPress Roles and Capabilities functionality may be the answer to my problem.  I could create a role for each age group and assign the users that have a swimmer in that age group to the appropriate roles.  By doing this, I think I can continue to use the Email Users plugin to contact specific groups of users based on the roles defined.

I need to do more research on Roles and Capabilities.  I’ve played with a couple plugins and they aren’t real straight forward.

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