Rich Mehta

Hey!
Thanks very much for trying out Dovetail; it’s always a pleasure to hear someone else is putting it to good use out there!

You’ve uncovered something that hasn’t actually been captured before; well done! To answer your question: no, there isn’t currently.

When a role gets deleted you’re right, it does exhibit that behaviour. I guess the problem is that when you delete a role in Dovetail, you’ve got to handle the fact that there might be people with that role currently in the database. There’s two ways to handle that:

1. Once a role is created, you can’t delete it
2. Deleting roles causes everyone to be demoted to another status (like the default “subscriber” level)

Actually, my feeling is number one’s the best option. What do you think?

Hi pemkuar14,
Thanks for getting in touch! Dovetail is a membership plugin; right now it allows you to set up new membership levels in WordPress, restrict access on a per page or per menu item level and a few other things.

Dovetail’s been built to work well with other plugins and stay close to how WordPress works. It works great with Gravity Forms (we’re using it on a client’s site right now with User Registration actually) and should work well with that front end editing plugin too (though I must confess I haven’t used that one; it sounds good though so I’ll take a look!)

The bits Dovetail doesn’t currently provide on your list are member expiration, a payment gateway and post number restriction. We’ve actually built the payment gateway and member expiration into it for another client; I just need to spend time abstracting this to work for the plugin itself.

Hopefully that clears it up for you but don’t hesitate to respond! Any feedback is most appreciated.