All user in role

[rizaardiyanto1412]

there is a scenario where you need to apply one or more modifications to all roles at once, to make the experience of the roles homogeneous.
this scenario will be possible by adding “All” to the list of role choices

Editor

This option will allow us to save a lot of time for each wordpress installation and avoid redoing all the options for the roles one by one.

note that import / export the settings does not solve the problem, because each installation has very different modifications so you always have to do everything one by one.

Original thread: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/all-roles-in-select-role/

[olatechpro]

@rizaardiyanto1412
It's impossible to take the suggested approach

Maybe add a secondary button “Update for all roles”?

It’ll be tricky to add the proposed dropdown because when a role is selected, we show restricted items for the role and not merging all roles restricted element. If an element is restricted for a role and not for another, what happen then in UI respective?

Maybe a secondary button will be better but it still leads to another problem with pages like Editor Features that has 2 buttons already unless we feel such page can have 3 buttons or maybe look for a better position for new button.

@stevejburge What's your input on this?

[stevejburge]

@olatechpro I'm happy to leave this for now. It may produce some extra UI issues that we also need to fix and that's too much for this milestone