Ronny

hey guys.

have you found the “submit for review function” yet?
in wordpress 2.0, its pretty easy when you’re the administrator to see if there are any saved but unpublished posts created by other users.

setting a user role to contributor can also force them to “saved post” only, so the administrator can review them before publishing.

it isn’t the most elegant solution, but it sort of works. to the best of my knowledge however, there is no “alert” to the admin via email. the admin will still have to log in to the wordpress account to see if there are any drafts by other users ready for publishing.

anyone have a better solution for this?
thanks.
Ronny.

hi guys.
i’ve been looking for the exact same thing in this post
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/34080

any progress on this other than the contact form hack?

thanks.
Ronny.

just an update on this topic, almost a year later. for wordpress 2.0, does anybody know if there any plugins to allow any visitor to the site “save post” (but not publish it, for moderation purposes)

on a page similar to what you would see on a contact email form?
i.e
<Space for Post title>
<space for post content>
<send button>

essentially its like anonymous authors, but without having to create a low level user account for the public.

its exactly like what is requested here
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/55767

thanks.
Ronny

hi there.
any progress on this topic? i’m looking for a similar “moderate posts” solution for my conributors/visiors.

anybody else have any solutions to share?

thanks.
Ronny.

probably just include their nick or email in options>discussion spam words.

that’s how i’m doing it. any other ideas?

thanks.

yes hi. i’m trying to do the same thing as the first poster. is there clearer code? i tried the code on that post but couldn’t get it done.

thanks for your time.
Ronny

ok solved. just had to change it to

<style type="text/css" media="screen">
/*<![CDATA[*/
@import url( https://www.yoursite.com/wp-content/themes/themename/page.css);
/*]]>*/
</style>

dave. you should put it between

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

<!-- The following tests if the current post is in category 3. -->
<!-- If it is not, the code within The Loop is executed as normal. -->
<!-- If it is, nothing is done until the next post is processed. -->

and

<div class="post">

go here https://codex.www.ads-software.com/The_Loop
and read the section Exclude Posts From Some Category

for complete coding details.

this does help hide posts on the main page while making them show up in the archives but it also pushes down the posts on the mian page as though the posts were not hidden, which is “a problem for me”

hi w3central
no what i’m looking for is to hide a series of posts from the main page, but making sure they still show up on the archives and their category page (i.e for category 3 https://www.yoursite.com/category/3 all the posts show up here)

“private post” doesn’t get the job done.

thank you.

hi w3central.
if you read the blockquote i helpfully provided just to avoid this kind of further debate, it says towards the end

If this is a problem for you, there is more complicated hack you can employ described in the Layout and Design FAQ.

my references to this being a problem was to this. i meant, in my case, this IS a problem. in that i cannot allow the number of posts in my main page to decrease beacuse of the “invisible” posts i have “hidden” are pushing back all the posts on my main page. the reason i did not say this is because i do not believe this statement simplifies thigns at all, and i i hoped peoploe would notice the block quote i provided.

as for not starting a new topic. i understand how annoying forum posters can be. demanding help NOW. wanting this NOW wanting that NOW. i try to avoid this, and i have been absolutely civil and undemanding in my requests, but there really is no pleasing you.
if i posted a new topic, you would probably just direct me to this thread. hence i have replied to this thread, even though the possibility of someone reading it would be even less than if i hate made its own thread, just in the interests of keeping the board neat.

if i have erred in this too i apologize sincerely. now do you think we can get on with answering the question?

thank you.
Ronny.

hey guys. still no solution for hiding a post on the main page, but making it show up in the Archives and NOT affecting the number of posts on the main page?

as taken from the the loop section of the codex

…
<?php if ( !(in_category(‘3’) && is_home()) ) { ?>
…

This will ensure that posts from Category 3 will only be excluded from the main page. There are other Conditional Tags that can be used to control the output depending on whether or not a particular condition is true with respect to the requested page.

Please note that even though the post is not being displayed it is still being counted by WordPress as having been shown — this means that if you have WordPress set to show at most seven posts and that two of the last seven are from Category 3 then you will only display five posts on your main page. If this is a problem for you, there is more complicated hack you can employ described in the Layout and Design FAQ.

unfortunately this is a problem for me. any ideas?

hi guys.
how do i make the <?php the_author(); ?> a link to all posts by the author?

thanks!
Ronny

hi for anyone looking for this, i’ve found a better, easier to use alternative plugin called category images
https://www.coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/#categoryimages