Category Access 0.8.0 Released
I’ve released a new version of the Category Access Wordpress 2 plugin. This plugin allows the blog maintainer to restrict access to posts belonging to particular categories on a user-by-user basis.
New changes:
- Added MySQL 4.0.x compatibility (Thanks to Giorgio A. Schwarz for the patch.)
- Set the priority for this plugin to really low, so that other plugins can have a chance to work on comments and such without interference. (Thanks to Ian Beck for the bug report.)
- Added support for internationalization. The first language is German (Thanks to Michael Rothfischer for the patch.)
Download it on my code page.
May 13th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Hey David, How did you get your code page to show just the “blog” link and your blog page to show available blog categories?
May 14th, 2007 at 9:14 am
My code page is not part of my blog. It just has a normal HTML list for the entries. The blog page is a modified theme. I pasted in my HTML list, and left the default wp_list_categories() call that creates the category list.
May 15th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
David, your plugin works beautifully! I had troubles with it at first but then tried it out on another blog I have and it worked perfectly fine there. In the same site where I had problems, I also had troubles with the built-in “post password” feature. So, I nuked the whole site and started fresh. Everything works now and I am so pleased! Your plug-in is the best that I have seen to protect blogs from prying eyes. Thank you so much! Oh, and I’m using the Tiga theme. It works really well. - Jennifer
July 5th, 2007 at 9:18 am
I uploaded the directory “category-access” and activated the plugins from the Admin Panel. But it is working fine.
I am the “Administrator” for the wordpress control panel with full access. But still when users posted a new blog it listed with the title ” Other’s Drafts: Sorry, you do not have sufficient privileges to view this post. .”
Another problem is on the user section I have assigned that the user user1 for the category LOCAL but on the post new it lists all the categories on the left menu..
I could not do the step
2. Modify your wp-commentsrss2.php as described below
Can you help me to fix this?
Regards
Aniesh
July 5th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
David,
Excellent plugin! I am having one problem and am looking for suggestions. Whenever I activate your plugin everything works great except for the fact that the name and email address disappear from my comments in the comment moderation screen. I am using wordpress 2.1.3 and the Akismet 1.14 or Akismet 2.0 plugins (I have tried both or none at all and it didn’t correct the problem). I activate the plugin and the name and email disappear and deactivate it and they come back. Thanks for any help.
Michael
July 5th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
David,
This is a great plugin! I am just having one difficulty with it and was wondering if you could provide some possible solutions. When I activate the plugin it works great except for the fact that the name and email of the comments awaiting moderation disappear. When I deactivate the plugin they reappear. I am running wordpress 2.1.3 and Akismet 1.14 or 2.0 (I have tried both versions and have tried your plugin without Akismet running at all).
Thanks for the plugin it is just what I have been needing!
Michael
July 6th, 2007 at 9:49 am
Sorry for the double post (now triple) I had finished my message and then got sidetracked at work and could remember if I had sent the first.
Sorry.
Michael
July 10th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Wow, it took me a long time to finally find this plugin, and I’m grateful that I did.
This is a very useful plugin — I have a site for a private group that wants certain categories to be hidden from unregistered users, and this is just the ticket.
Haven’t encountered any problems at all yet, seems to work great.
One suggestion: you might want to assign a css class to the lock icon. That way it would be easier to control its placement through the stylesheet rather than via hardcoding.
Great plugin — thanks so much for creating it and offering it to the WP community!
July 10th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Actually, one more thought about the lock icon and CSS… better still would be to wrap locked links/posts/categories in a CSS class — then the developer could style them in many different ways. For example, one might choose to show locked links/posts/categories as grayed out, or cross-out, or with a different icon, etc. It would add more flexibility.
Just a thought. Thanks again for a great and much-needed plugin.
July 23rd, 2007 at 2:30 am
I would like to second what Michael Griffin said about the comments in moderation missing name, email and comment. I have the latest version of Wordpress (2.2.1) and the latest version of this plugin, Category Access 0.8.0. This is priceless plugin! I found a workaround to the bug by clicking “edit”. It will display the info there, but it makes the process very cumbersome when you have lots of comments. Please help. Thanks again!
July 30th, 2007 at 2:52 am
A installed your plugin under wordpress 2.1.2 Works oké, but I got problems with the Subscribe2 plugin. Notifications by e-mail in HTLM is totally disabled. I looked in the code but couldn’t figure out why. Hope you might have a clue…
August 1st, 2007 at 10:03 am
Okay everyone, names and emails should be back in the next revision. Also, the padlock will be part of the “category_access_padlock” CSS class. Stay tuned for a new release.