I want to have posts that are private to specific logged in users. My preference would be for an administrator to allow access to these posts via an option on the users' profile pages.
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 07:50:50PM +1100, Michael C. Harris wrote: > I want to have posts that are private to specific logged in users. My > preference would be for an administrator to allow access to these > posts via an option on the users' profile pages.
Okay, that obviously got everyone pretty excited.
A plugin to define a new private status is simple. All that does, however, is act like a draft - if you're logged in, you can see it.* This should be really easy with the ACL, but am I right in saying that's a work in progress? If not, how do I add permissions and test them in a plugin?
cheers, Michael
* Which brings up another issue that I think is probably already on the radar: if I have a draft I don't want other logged in users to be able to see it. The issues are related.
On 1/22/08, Michael C. Harris <michael.twof...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A plugin to define a new private status is simple. All that does, > however, is act like a draft - if you're logged in, you can see it.* > This should be really easy with the ACL, but am I right in saying > that's a work in progress? If not, how do I add permissions and test > them in a plugin?
The ACL system is in an embryonic state. It's something I keep meaning to work on, but fail utterly to follow through with. :(
> * Which brings up another issue that I think is probably already > on the radar: if I have a draft I don't want other logged in users to > be able to see it. The issues are related.
Yes, that's a known weakness. Currently, all users are equal. I do want to fix that, sooner rather than later.
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 12:24:20PM -0500, Scott Merrill wrote:
> On 1/22/08, Michael C. Harris <michael.twof...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A plugin to define a new private status is simple. All that does, > > however, is act like a draft - if you're logged in, you can see it.* > > This should be really easy with the ACL, but am I right in saying > > that's a work in progress? If not, how do I add permissions and test > > them in a plugin?
> The ACL system is in an embryonic state. It's something I keep > meaning to work on, but fail utterly to follow through with. :(
> > * Which brings up another issue that I think is probably already > > on the radar: if I have a draft I don't want other logged in users to > > be able to see it. The issues are related.
> Yes, that's a known weakness. Currently, all users are equal. I do > want to fix that, sooner rather than later.
Thanks, Skippy. Given that this is my itch at the moment, I'll try to put some work into the ACL/groups over the next week or so and attach it to issue #50.
