Does this exist ??

  • Hey all, what I’m wanting to do seems really simple. (compared to other hacks) If it already exists I don’t want to get into reinventing the wheel.
    Here’s what I was looking to do ———–
    – I have WP setup with about 30 different users.
    – I setup a category for each user to post to.
    – I dont want anyone to be able to post to categories that aren’t theirs
    I know when you login the admin area, you can just use the checkboxes to select which category to post to, but we all know how end-users can be.
    With 30+ people posting from the backend, I’d like to fool proof it so each user can ONLY post to their assigned category.
    Even having the category list (when posting) checkbox default to their category (based on username) would be cool.
    Otherwise I know there are going to be posts all over the place.
    Any ideas ? Thanks!!

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  • https://www.ads-software.com/support/4/13488
    https://www.partylemon.com/index.php/archives/2004/10/11/wordpress-groups-hack
    I have no idea if the second one is close to what you’re looking for…
    – Bryan

    There could use to be a generalized “ACL” concept added to wordpress that encapsulates who can read, comment, and post, and in what categories. That’d solve a lot of people’s needs.
    However, until that time, look around here — we had a discussion a while back that I commented on about setting up wordpress so that it hid the category block in the post/edit pages, and filled in an invisible field with a particular user’s category (either an array lookup in php, or a new database field in the user record, or a new database table linked to the user).
    Basically, the work is in modifying the edit form to hide the categories and encode just the category for the particular user (should be almost as easy as having that user’s category ‘start out properly’).
    -d

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