ChrisThank you Steven.
Sticky and Featured will be useful add-ons. I’m willing to pay for the add-on features at your current typical costs for plugins. Perhaps even a little more if it will help dev work.
Meantime I’ve installed two plugins to see if I can leverage them in this area. Perhaps I don’t understand the requirements but maybe one or both of these with Connections can enable some of this:
User Role Editor
http://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/
Requires: 3.5 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.8
Last Updated: 2013-12-10
Downloads: 955,038
and
Types
http://wordpress.org/plugins/types/
Requires: 3.4 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.8
Last Updated: 2013-12-18
Downloads: 281,456
The Types developer has some premium “Toolset” plugins which may extend the capabilities and bring it closer, e.g. Toolset Views and Toolset Cred.
http://wp-types.com/
Thank you for Connections.