[wp-hackers] Add a Filter or use new PRIVATE status (WP2.1)

[Chris]

Filipe,
Thanks, i will look at your code. I thought this might be the way to go.
I was hoping to "automate" it so that authors did not have to set 
"private", so I have arranged my categories so that all the member-only" 
categories are all children of a root level category. With pages I can 
then easily hide them from menus etc using this structure :)
I expect that after the latest release of WP has stabilised the plugin 
folks will start taking account of the full range of post status!

Do the default theme core files not respect "private" in archives etc? I 
shall find out by digging around I guess.

I think WP now allows a good combination of features, and fortunately I 
am happy with php, sql, html coding.. but the majority of course are not!
I'm still reluctant to hack core code tho, so will have to investigate 
plugin API once I have got the site actually launched!
Thanks again
Chris


Filipe Fortes wrote:
> You've got two options:
>
>   1. Change the post_status of the posts in your private category to
>   "private" and then use the filters to display them only to members with
>   privileges. This stops most other plugins from displaying your posts.
>   The biggest drawback is the lack of filters for archive / category / 
> etc
>   listings which will keep your posts out of that view. For my
> plugin<http://fortes.com/projects/wordpress/postlevels>,
>   I ended up using the query filter, which can be tricky to keep 
> compatible
>   with the many plugins out there.
>   2. Do the reverse of #1, and try to make sure that other plugins hide
>   your special (but public) posts ... this would involve changing the sql
>   calls through the query filter
>
> Best of luck! Feel free to look at my source ...
>
>
>
> On 3/14/07, Chris <chris.hearn01 at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have tried that on the index page, that works, adding (cat=-4), but
>> the calendar plugin, recent events etc listed in my sidebar are
>> unaffected..
>>
>> > Chris wrote:
>> >> b) adding some sort of filter that filters out everything in
>> >> cat=members if user not logged in
>> >> But where to attach this filter to have global impact and work with
>> >> the plugins? assuming I can make the filter in the first place!
>> >
>> > use the the_posts filter, it is ran before the loop and receives all
>> > posts as an array.
>> >
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