18 comments

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  Barbara_NY

  1 month ago

  Your plugin is absolutely amazing, allowing me to provide a rich, management resource to my member site, and I wanted to thank you for sharing it with us all.
  
  You have been completely forthcoming and honest about the fact that this plugin was developed a while ago, and "is currently broken for many people using versions of WordPress 2.3 and above." Frankly, with the level of functionality I've experienced thus far I'd hardly say it is broken... just made for an earlier version of WordPress. I am using WordPress 2.5.1 and all but one feature are working exactly as intended. The one feature that isn't is the POST PREVIEW drop down list under the POST LEVELS CONFIGURATION menu. It is weird... the drop down list displays the options properly, which include these 4 choices; none, title only, title plus excerpt, and teaser, until you choose one and hit UPDATE POST LEVELS. Once you do that and go to the "options saved" page, the drop down lists displays a single option that reads, "none for posts to be completely hidden from people who aren't logged in." And, the result for my "logged in" users is that those with the proper levels attached to them see the posts, while those who have lower level settings than the post was assigned, don't.
  
  I'd be happy to donate to your cause, or pay you to help me troubleshoot this issue, because having the ability to let my junior members see what they are missing will effectively boost sales in membership upgrades. Well, worth the $$. Possible?
  
  Barbara
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  leica

  1 month ago

  Silly question, but if I set someone's level as 2, they can then read posts at levels 1 and 2, right?
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  Barbara_NY

  1 month ago

  Yes, leica, I've tested it, and that is exactly how it works. If the user is at level 6, for example, they can see 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.
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  carl

  1 month ago

  I'm using wordpress 2.5 and this appears to somwhat work...
  
  On the home page and archive pages the post shows up, title and description, even though i shouldn't have access to it. If I click to go directly to the post I get the "Sorry, no posts matched your criteria" message as expected.
  
  The problem is this post shouldn't show up on any page but it is. I've disabled all plugins except for this one and also changed the theme back to the wordpress default with the same result.
  
  In this instance the user level is a 5 and the post level is a 6. I tried with the user as a subscriber and also as a publisher.
  
  Thoughts??
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  carl

  1 month ago

  One thing I forgot to mention from the last post...
  
  In Manage/Posts I do not see this post so that appears to work as well.
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  carl

  1 month ago

  I just found that if I change the user level to a 1, post is 5 or 6, it works as expected but any other level than a 1 shows the post.
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  Barbara_NY

  1 month ago

  Carl,
  
  I found the same thing, and incorporated this work-around. Instead of my blog home page displaying the Most Recen postst, I added this line to the home.php page under my theme directory
  
  <?php query_posts('category_name=main&showposts=10');?>
  
  just below the line that identified the middle "body" section of my page was to begin. For my theme that line reads:
  
  <div id="contentmiddle">
  
  What that does is show the Main Category posts on the home page without disturbing any other WordPress features. I chose Main just because, for me, that seemed like the most logical place to put the posts for all viewers to see. You can make it ANY category you have set up, just change the code above and replace the word main with the "slug" name assigned to your category. You can also set the number of posts that will show on that page. You see above, mine says 10. Of course, the key is to then check off the Category you decided on when creating a new post, for all of the posts you want to be available to the public.
  
  Then, I put a Widget showing the Most Recent list and the Category list in the sidebar, and depending on the user level you set, they will only see the posts in Most Recent that they have access to. Same for the Category list. When they click on one of them, they will only see the posts they have access to under that Category. Not perfect, but definitely viable.
  
  For me, though, I really want to have all the posts show on the main page, or anywhere. Just the title, though, so my user's can see what they are missing and upgrade their membership to gain access to them. That is what my post above addresses. In the meantime, this works.
  
  Barbara
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  Barbara_NY

  1 month ago

  Fortes... Could you spare a moment and take a look at my question above in a post that begins...
  
  "Your plugin is absolutely amazing..."
  
  Would genuinely appreciate a reply. Thanks
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  ZenemiG

  1 month ago

  Hi,
  
  Like Barbara said, absolutely amazing plugin. Im also willing to donate for an update of this plugin, although Im on the poor side, all I can donate is $40 USD. I would really like the author of the plugin to be the one that fiddles with it, since you know it very well.
  
  Thanks again for the plugin.
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  Fortes

  1 month ago

  Hey All,
  
  Apologies, but I've been quite busy. WordPress has gone through some major code changes, which is why the Post Levels plugin has had problems lately. I'll see if I can spare some time this weekend to get it working on WP 2.6.
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  Barbara_NY

  1 month ago

  That would be just great! Am looking forward to it, and am here to support you in any way you think is helpful.
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  grittysweet

  4 weeks ago

  Hello! Add me to the list of people who are desperately hoping for an update to PostLevels that is compatible with the latest version of WP. This is a great plugin, but it only half-works in WP 2.3.1 and doesn't work at all in WP 2.6 (which I'd really love to upgrade to). I can't find anything else like it available, so I really hope you'll have time to update the plugin soon. Thank you for all your work on this so far!
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  x11tech

  3 weeks ago

  I really like this plugin and would love to see a working version for 2.6 and later. I'm familiar with PHP and MySQL and once I learn how to write plugins for WordPress, I'd be happy to help support you in keeping it current.
  
  Great job on the original code and thank you!
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  Katy

  2 weeks ago

  I've been using this plugin for a while now and refuse to upgrade WP because it doesn't work in newer versions. Please fix this for 2.6. If you do, I'll be glad to donate money!!
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  Katy

  2 weeks ago

  Oh and also, I'm glad that you're working on this plugin again! =) I think you stopped supporting this plugin for a while and I was desperately looking for a similar plugin so I can upgrade but never found one.
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  Katy

  2 weeks ago

  Hello.. me again. I actually upgraded to 2.6.1 and Post Levels seems to work perfectly right now!
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  unmarked post level user

  2 weeks ago

  Hello Katy,
  hello all,
  
  How did you make Post Levels work in wordpress 2.6.1?
  
  In my case the following applies to a "private" post regarding its visibility:
  - posts are NOT shown to an user if user level "0" assigned
  - posts ARE shown to any user if its user level is > "0"
  No further options.
  
  So users with user level "2" can read posts marked "7" :o(
  
  Awaiting desperately the next post level update :o)
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  claire

  1 week ago

  I antto change posts enmass and wondered if this could be done via sql. Is the post level stored in a table and if so what is the column name. Ive had a look via phpmyadmin and dont seem to be able to find refernce to levels
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