Does anyone know good plugins for these…

I also need to have, on the front page, an editor’s pick, with a link to other editor’s picks. For example, the homepage would display the latest Editor’s pick, and the link would take you to a page with the 10 newest editor’s picks.

Thanks again!

You ll go HERE and you ll find a decent searchbox, type some keywords (like i usually do) and then click on Search plugins. Read, test and decide.
I typed “login to read” and i got these results.
If you have any problems or you wanna ask something specific for a plugin you can always come here.

Regards

I don’t know if that last post was meant to be a sarcastic “You’re a total noob-asshole” kind of post…

I’ve used the search on this site many times. I couldn’t find a plugin that explicitly requires a login to read the full article but allows main pages to be loaded with excerpts. All that link you provided me with shows is custom login plugins and plugins that fully restrict the site from being viewed to anyone who isn’t logged in.

If you meant to honestly be helpful, I’m sorry. I was just posting to see if anyone knew some good plugins perchance. I know how to search, the results just weren’t as fruitful as I hoped so I decided to post a request. I thought my question was pretty specific… I need exactly those functionalities.

Please respond if you’ve run across any plugins that have these abilities or are close and can be modified. Despite my noob-like necessity of asking questions, I know how to work some coding…

Thank you!

Yeah, was sarcastic but, you know, rephrasing a question may lead you to a different answer. In our case it leads to this site. Under POST category search for HideIt or HideThis. One of these two certainly works with WP 251 and hides part of a post with a note “Please Login or Register to read the rest of this content” same way a “read more” does (WP 2.5.1 tested).
There are more but havent tested for user roles etc.
Oh, i almost forgot, there are more in “advertising” category!

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Going further, scrolling a bit more down you ll find PostsByAuthor that displays series links of a certain author posts (editor in our case) everywhere you need to show them. Also tested in WP 251. And searching a bit more you ll find more precious plugins for displaying specific categories and more… more… more…

…think i ll stop searching for today…

And just an hour ago i saw this…

I think u got a lot of choices now~

Amazing, thank you! I didn’t know about wp-plugins.net, so that’s been a huge help.

The HideIt and HideThese and WP-UCanHide plugins work well, but aren’t quite what I’m looking for. These plugins do a good job of hiding the text when you’re not logged in, but they still allow the user to access the post page when they are not logged in. Once you’re on the post page, you just see the excerpt when not logged in.

Ideally, a user would be directed to a login page when they click a “Read more” button or the headline to an article, unless they are already logged in.

If there was a way to even protect certain pages, that would be perfect. For instance, when you go to a post, it loads the single.php file from the theme. If there was some if statement I could put in that checks if the user is logged in and if so, writes the post, else writes a login form.

Would you happen to know of any good excerpt controlling plugins? On the main page I want to have 4 of the latest posts, with the most recent post more prominent, and the next 3 below it. For each, I want an excerpt of the text and an image icon to the left of the text. For the most recent, the icon would be larger, and the headline bigger font.

Thanks again for your help!

Sorry but i cannot clearly understand what you want. These plugins protect your content and require a user to login. You can reach the post page but the content you can see is exactly what you see in the front page. So?

Anyway you are looking for something custom and i m not sure that there’s a plugin for that. But you can always ask any of these authors if they can help more. Or (better) if you can handle php i would suggest to use one of the above plugins and search the CODEX finding a way to change your index page in the title section to make something like if it’s a registered user then display title permalink else just the title and/or a link to login form.

Good luck