The current system for handling member roles and capabilities employed by the Wordpress platform is more than adequate for the casual user, in a lot of cases, it’s probably more than they need.
If you’re hosting a personal blog, with a few hundred subscribers, there’s not often much worry about being able to assign groups of people certain permissions and capabilities in order to manage your site; in fact, you may be the only one who has ever laid eyes on your dashboard, and therefore this system is completely moot.
What if you run something more than a personal blog, however?
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