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Re: Post-Levels WordPress Plugin

bishop — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:50:40 -0000

I have 2.6.3 and it works just fine. I have a weird little issue with using a post prefix and it showing up on my "pages" on the index page but no other pages (and they aren't "private" pages), but I can live with that since it is aesthetic rather than functional and doesn't detract from the whole.

Re: Post-Levels WordPress Plugin

bishop — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:50:32 -0000

Re: Post-Levels WordPress Plugin

Jenny — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:57:20 -0000

So we are at wordpress 2.6.3 and it's still not working. Fortes said he will do something... that was 3 months ago.

Re: Post-Levels WordPress Plugin

Sushil — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:43:53 -0000

Hi, All,

I made the following change to the plugin and it works for me with Wordpress 2.6 and 2.6.2.

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< $sql = preg_replace("/({$wpdb->posts}\.)?post_status[\s]*=[\s]*[\'|\"]publish[\'|\"]/", " ({$wpdb->posts}.post_status = 'publish' OR ({$wpdb->posts}.post_status = 'private' AND (pl_{$wpdb->postmeta}.meta_key = '$postlevels_post_key' AND pl_{$wpdb->postmeta}.meta_value <= $postlevels_current_user_level )))", $sql);
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> $sql = preg_replace("/OR ({$wpdb->posts}\.)?post_status[\s]*=[\s]*[\'|\"]private[\'|\"]/", " OR ({$wpdb->posts}.post_status = 'private' AND (pl_{$wpdb->postmeta}.meta_key = '$postlevels_post_key' AND pl_{$wpdb->postmeta}.meta_value <= $postlevels_current_user_level ))", $sql);

Re: Post-Levels WordPress Plugin

Katy — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:30:23 -0000

Well Post Levels just started working on its own in 2.6.1 .. but there are a lot of bugs with it.
For example, it causes WP Stats not to work, it conflicts with WP Page-Navi plugin and it makes my 'Recent Posts' lists double link each entry....

Re: Post-Levels WordPress Plugin

manysounds — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:45:47 -0000

I'm very sorry about the post spam.
I wanted to clarify more: If I set a post to "make this post private" and set any postlevel at all the post publishes when saved, regardless of whether it is scheduled or not or if I hit the publish button.
That should sum it all up then...

Truly a great plugin, thank you...

Re: Post-Levels WordPress Plugin

manysounds — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:06:13 -0000

I have some additional info on this quirk:
If I write a post and then schedule it for public and publish (now reads 'scheduled') and THEN set the post level it doesn't function properly. The post gets the level tag but remains public and readable by all.
If I write a post and then set the post level, schedule and "make private" and then publish it publishes "right now"

Re: Post-Levels WordPress Plugin

manysounds — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:09:37 -0000

Hello,
The bug I have is when I set a post level I can't schedule the post to publish on a future date.
Instead it publishes immediately and this causes me to manually publish member-only type content daily. Since I can't schedule post-leveled content this sorta ruins my chances of real vacation :)

Re: Post-Levels WordPress Plugin

claire — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:07:43 -0000

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

Re: Post-Levels WordPress Plugin

unmarked post level user — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:47:37 -0000

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)

Re: Post-Levels WordPress Plugin

Katy — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:34:18 -0000

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

Re: Post-Levels WordPress Plugin

Katy — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:41:35 -0000

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.

Re: Post-Levels WordPress Plugin

Katy — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:36:07 -0000

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!!

Re: Post-Levels WordPress Plugin

x11tech — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:12:55 -0000

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!

Re: Post-Levels WordPress Plugin

grittysweet — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:12:52 -0000

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!

Re: Post-Levels WordPress Plugin

karnesb — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:23:38 -0000

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

Re: Post-Levels WordPress Plugin

fortes — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:41:28 -0000

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.

Re: Post-Levels WordPress Plugin

ZenemiG — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:27:46 -0000

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.

Re: Post-Levels WordPress Plugin

karnesb — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:42:04 -0000

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

Re: Post-Levels WordPress Plugin

karnesb — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:40:31 -0000

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

Re: Post-Levels WordPress Plugin

carl — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:05:49 -0000

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.

Re: Post-Levels WordPress Plugin

carl — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:11:36 -0000

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.

Re: Post-Levels WordPress Plugin

carl — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:09:16 -0000

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??

Re: Post-Levels WordPress Plugin

karnesb — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:40:44 -0000

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.

Re: Post-Levels WordPress Plugin

leica — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:32:02 -0000

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