The Coppit Family Daily News

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 “Check all categories” and “Uncheck all categories” buttons to the options and user pages. (Suggested by David Katz)
• Fixed a bug where category filtering would sometimes fail, especially for things like RSS fields. (Thanks to Tim Lockwood for the patch.)
• Fixed a problem where post titles would be protected in situations where they shouldn’t be, such as in the dashboard comment list. (Thanks to Joe Church for the bug report.)
• Updated the wp-commentsrss2.php modification in the README for WP 2.2 or newer. (Thanks to Aniesh Joseph for the bug report.)
• I also fixed a problem in the comments RSS modification documentation where posts would be entirely removed, even if you had enabled “Show the title and links (but not the summary or content) instead of hiding posts.”
• Changed the options page so that it uses Javascript and CSS to show only the visibility options for only the selected class of users. This cleans up the interface and allows for possible future support of roles.
• When surfing to the permalink for a protected post, the user will now be redirected to the login page if they cannot view the post and are not logged in. Note that after logging in, they may still see an Error 404 if they do not have permissions to view the post. (Thanks for the feature suggestion by Jason Holtslander.)
• CSS styles are now used for protected titles, posts, categories, and padlock icons. (Thanks to Tyler Gore for the suggestion.)
• Fixed a bug where the padlock icon HTML was being inserted into the category link title.
• Fixed a bug where the previous and next post links would always be protected if the post for the current page was protected.

Download it on my code page.