Works great

Thanks for the feedback. Hiding entire posts isn’t really a file management scope sorta thing, but there many plugins that do this with great facility.

I’ve been looking high and low for one. What would you recommend? I’m looking for something that will hide a custom post type title based on the user role for specific posts. So, a non-contributor should not be able to view a post related to a new blogging policy. This is a list of plugins I’ve looked at:

• Toolset Access
• WP-Members
• Members
• User Role Editor
• Hide Title
• WordPress Access Control
• Adminimize
• Advanced Access Manager
• Groups

I wrote a plugin a couple years ago and am actually about to publish an update to get it back to working with the most recent WP versions. Right now it doesn’t have any role-based options but that totally makes sense to leverage that (embarrassed I didn’t think of it tbh). Is there a particular timing that you’re needing on this?

This is mine:
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/post-access-controller/

Let me know and maybe I can look into how much work that might be to add role options. Initially it seems like it wouldn’t be super hard.

WordPress Access Control is the plugin I’ve used in several projects.

Sooner is better. Arsdehnel, how long do you think it would take?

The only workaround I’ve figured out to do in the mean time is to remove the title then place an h1 inside eyes only. Not my most elegant solution, but it works as a temp solution. Downside is that sorting by title is pretty much worthless.

I tried Access Control, but I ran into an issue with custom post types showing when it is on the page. The expected behavior would be to hide the post regardless of the page.

It seems to be going really quickly, roles are something wordpress has a fair amount of functionality around already (as opposed to the “groups” concept that I sort of invented on my own and had to implement a fair amount of infrastructure for). I’ve got the UI elements almost done that allow you to select the roles for a given post/page/etc. Then on to the check code handling that but again that should just be able to leverage the existing WP functions so that should be pretty quick. I’d guess it’ll all be ready to go in a 1.1.0 release by like Thursday of this week (May 19). Don’t necessarily bet your financial future on that timeline, but at this time it sure seems pretty straightforward.

drlonniejonespfmp: I’m currently going the route of explicit roles in the listing. Would it make more sense for your use case to have a listing of capabilities instead? Like what’s described on this page: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Roles_and_Capabilities/

I’ll keep moving forward with roles and put capabilities on the list for another option to be considered in the future. Let me know if you’d prefer reversing those priorities.

Before I would manually create different roles but I found the plugin User Role Editor to be better. I haven’t had an opportunity to try User Role Editor with custom actions though. In this case, I have different types of editors like operations editor, marketing editor, or community content author and then different content consumers like employee, manager, and trainer. The content editors are allowed to modify their custom post types. Then the consumers have different levels of access based on their role.

Side note: I have been messing around with the idea with nested groups which hold multiple roles;however, logistically it will get complicated with vertical and horizontal roles.

Sorry for the delay on this but 1.1.0 is out there now and should do what you’re looking for. Please let me know if it’s not quite what you were thinking.