Yes, the problem with hiding the entire post is one of WP 0.8.2 and later. I’ve been very busy finding a new job recently, but now that it’s done I should have more time to debug this.

David

Is this a problem with the new WP version? Do you plan a new release? Do you know anyone who fixed the problem?

Thank you very much for writing this plugin! I can’t believe it’s not part of the standard WP release…

WP 2.2
Category Access 0.8.2 (German)

SQL-Syntax Error:
Fehler in der SQL-Syntax. Bitte die korrekte Syntax im Handbuch nachschlagen (diese kann f�r verschiedene Server-Versionen unterschiedlich sein) bei ‘ON ( erfahrung_posts.ID = .object_id ) WHERE 0 = 1 OR .term_taxonomy_id = 2 OR .’ in Zeile 1

I think this is an effect of “UTF8″ and wrong in your plugin? The ü in your plugin get an questionmark with black background…

Any ideas?

Any ideas? Is this plug-in still supported? Looks like there’s not much activity on here.

But: as a user of wp 2.3.1 I:

- cannot reset the order to single level
- when I check “Put the count of the number of posts in the category…” it has no effect
- using spacer between categories causes to not HTML valid code

But I am still using it because it is the best I’ve found.

I have just encountered a strange thing on one of our servers though . . .

On a test server hosted locally, the Category Access plugin worked exactly as expected – it worked so well that we resolved that it was ready for our production server (remotely hosted and owned by another company).

Once on the remote server (stats listed below) the categories are hidden from all viewers. Once logged in as an administrator, all categories are visible. The issue is that when logged on as an administrator, there is no “Category Access” link on the options page. On the local server it is there and 100% usable – the remote server shows nothing (and yes, the plugin has been enabled).

I thought that I would be “smart” and use the link from the local server and try to append the necessary information to the remote server’s address – that did not work, as the page that was presented with the layout for the template of WordPress, but where one would normally find the “Category Access” information it was blank (it was not a 404, it acted as though there should have been something there but it was not).

The biggest thing that I see as a potential issue as the the remote server’s MySQL version is older than the local server.

Do you have any idea as to what may be causing this issue? I would be more than happy to provide any more information regarding our setup, and explain in greater detail as to what we have setup.

I did try a clean install of WordPress and the “Category Access” on the remote server, and that did not work as well. Any ideas? Thank you.

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Local Server Stats
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PHP Version: 5.2.0-8+etch7
MySQL Version: 5.0.32
Apache Version 2.2.3
WordPress Version: 2.3.1
Plugins Enabled:
- Category Access Version: 0.8.2
- Sidebar Login Version: 1.0

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Remote Server Stats
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PHP Version: 5.0.4
MySQL Version: 4.1.20
Apache Version 2.0.54
WordPress Version: 2.3.1
Plugins Enabled:
- Category Access Version: 0.8.2
- Sidebar Login Version: 1.0

1. On the blog index page, I am getting the date, author name and “Posted in X categories” for all the posts that should be hidden from the anonymous user. The post title and content are hidden as they should be.

2. Similarly, on the single post page if I use the URL for it directly, I get the “This entry was posted on …” paragraph as well as all the comments are visible.

3. Of course, that means that redirection to the login page is not working for protected posts in case of anonymous users.

4. The feed shows the title and link for the protected posts despite the fact that the relevant option for Category Access is unchecked.

I am using the default theme for WordPress 2.3. And I have tried disabling the other plugins I am using to no avail.

Is there an easy way for me to test pingbacks and trackbacks? Would you allow me to post from your site to debug it? Also, try the latest version and see if you still have the problem.

David

Ill install this plugin anyway just to try it out.

I don’t know if category access will work in Wordpress 2.3, but I think it’s a very handy Plugin and would appreciate it, if you could fix this Pingback Bug.

Thank you for your work anyways

The only thing I am really missing would be access rules based on roles (such as anonymous, subscriber, author, administrator and possibly custom roles generated by Role Manager).

I had the same problem as hauke and I do use the german wordpress version too. I did search for more than one hour in the code, to find the flaw and I found none. The only way to solve the problem is to delete the german translation files, because everything works perfect, if the english words are shown.
The only difference seems to be, that the english version calls the submit-button ‘value=”Update Options”‘ and in german it says ‘value=”Einstellungen übernehmen”‘. I guess the “ü” in “übernehmen” might be the problem. Most other Plugins call it “aktualisieren” to avoid the Umlaut.

By the way, thank you for the plugin