Tue 8 Jul 2008
WP Sentry: Private Posting Plugin
Posted by peteholiday under Plugins[5] Comments
(23 votes, average: 3.96 out of 5)
Loading ...This is a simple plugin to allow for access-restricted posting, allowing bloggers to discuss sensitive subjects without Google or the world finding the post.
After activation, an administration panel is added to your “Users” tab, allowing you to create user groups. The creation of user groups is completely optional, although it does make things a little easier.
Also upon activation, a section is added to the post creation and editing screen. This section allows you to specify which users or groups have access to the post. Setting any access restrictions here forces the post to be listed as “private” in WordPress, so you don’t have to worry about forgetting to hide a sensitive post.
Users may be members of multiple groups. Multiple groups and multiple individual users may be allowed to view each post. Overlaps are ignored — if the user is a member of any group that is allowed to view the post, that user will be able to view it.
For more information and to download the plugin, check out out the WP Sentry Homepage.
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This is really helpfull if you want to use WordPress as a CMS!
Is is also possible to assign a group as a member of another group? And can you also assign access permissions on category level or only on post level?
This plugin looks really useful!
You can’t add groups as members of other groups yet, and I’m not sure what you mean about category access.
Strike that — I think I know what you mean, I’m not sure how it would work. Feel free to send me an email if you’ve got some ideas on that.
Thanks!
There is a new release of this plugin that adds many more features, cleans up a few bugs and rationalises the admin section. As a plugin it is well focussed to a specific job and is an excellent and well needed addition to the wordpress user permission layer. You can now post exclusive content to a prescribed user group(s) without risk of leaking to the public. In addition there are many nice touches such as ‘previews only’ and redirects to a custom page for non group members.
For anyone needing to set up a private members area or publishing ‘group specific’ content, this is probably the ‘must have’ plugin for simplicity and intuitive use. It has just one file and provides very little overhead to your wordpress site.
Along with Role scoper, which offers a more content specific permission layer, these 2 plugins push wordpress firmly into true CMS capability.
Highly recommended and thanks to Pete Holiday for his continued development on this!
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