ViewLevel 2.0 – Explanation Required

A link to this plugin would be nice …

https://blog.firetree.net/2005/08/25/viewlevel-20/

What I do is just type vl=X anywhere in the post, where X equals your desired post view level. The plugin then reads your post, sets the view level, and deletes the text.

I’ve had only okay luck with doing the custom field manually.

You also might find this thread useful: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/51926.

Figured it out yet?

Thank you for your input, alsosara!

Further questions:

1) Is there a method of determining the ViewLevel of a post beyond entering “vl=x” into the entry body? Once saved, all (visible) indication seems to vanish along with the command (“vl=x“).

2) How do I set reader levels?

3) Is there no central command/base through which to monitor both the aforementioned categories, post levels as well as reader restrictions, similar to WP’s Authors & Users page?

You’re welcome! I love that plugin.

1) Yes. After typing and publishing with vl=x, I can always look at and edit the custom field. Don’t know why it’s a little buggy like that, but it’s not much to get over. I like the vl=x shortcut.
2) Which WP version? See https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/51926 for 2.0. You can ask here if you have a ? about that. For 1.5ish versions, user level = view level just as you might expect.
3) Nope.

1) Ah, simple enough—for anyone with eyes in their head. ?? Thus, once I

– establish a rank system (e.g. 2 = mildly disturbing content; apathetic readers only, or 3 = incredibly graphic content; blind readers only—I kid, naturally),

– note that system for future reference, and

– figure out how to manage reader levels,

I should be all set, eh?

2) 2.0—and I meant, in the event that clarification is needed, reader levels as relates to this particular plugin. (Does the Role Manager plugin happen to correspond to this issue?)

Okay, you definitely have to approach this differently for 2.0 I’m going to try to explains this clearly. Hope I make sense. Or course, my way isn’t the only way to do this, but it’s the only way I know of that doesn’t require writing code and such. I’m writing it now and posting more in a sec.

I appreciate your industry, and on behalf of a perfect stranger, no less.

To configure the roles so that VL2.0 works with WP 2.0 as if it were WP 1.5:

Get Owen’s Role Manager plugin installed and active. Go to the “Users” section in the admin panel. You should see “Roles” as a third option beside “Your Profile” and “A&U.” Select it. Configure your roles as you want. In my case, non-admins should only read, so for them, everything is disabled but:
– for the subscriber: read, level 0
– contributer: read, level 0, level 1
– author: read, level 0, 1, and 2
– editor: read, level 0, 1, 2, 3
The admin (only you, presumably), is allowed to do everything. This means that you only have 3 different kinds of levels for subscribed people available to you. Much less than in WP 1.5ish versions. But, the good news is, with the above system you can totally block lower level users from messing around in your WP install, which was much harder to do in 1.5.

Remember, though, that the dashboard by default shows “recent posts,” which include public posts of any level. To disable that, install x-Dashboard and configure it. Also, while VL2.0 is supposed to work on feeds, in my case, it didn’t. I ended up disabling all feeds. I like that better for my purposes anyway, since my blog is mostly personal data.

Your point 1) above is right. Hopefully now you’re configured and set. The rank system was pretty funny, btw, and it might end up being surprisingly accurate ;).

Good luck!

Thanks for the thanks. I know so many people have helped me here, and I don’t have a lot of knowledge to give back, so I like to help well whenever I can. The WP community support is really awesome.