and that is that I set an article with vl=0 but unregistered users can still see it, I set it with 1 and they can’t see it and nor can anyone else including the administrator (me)

I have the deafult set as *-

I am not sure why this is happening, can you point me in the right direction?

Another thing. People are still able to see how many posts there are in the different categories and archives, even though their contents are not displayed.

I would also like it to hide links according to userlevel (Blogrolls etc):-)

Or would it just be better if the wordpress-people actually made a somewhat working user management?

Am using your plugin. Haven’t used the padlock yet cause my post snippet is different. Might ask help for that later. But my question now is of a different order. I set the viewer level for a post and I can see it when I am logged in. But I tried to change it back so everybody can see it again. If I added vl=* and checked after I logged off it still wasn’t there! How come? Do I need to adjust the post in the database or something?

Thanks for your help.

Cheers,

Jasper

All you have to do is change:

if($vl>0) $result=$locked_text;

to

if($vl>=0) $result=$locked_text;

It’s working for me, so I hope that’s truly all it takes! :)

I’m on WP 1.5.2, was this tested against 1.5.2?

ViewLevel 2.0.0 has been released.

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

I hope Ross’ suggestion of showing users that there is a post and that they don’t have access to it, won’t get incorporated into the plugin, because to me, the whole point of using something like this instead of just password-protecting posts, is to hide the existance of the posts I want protected completely. Only people with high enough level should ever know that the posts are there.

Hopefully something like this will be incorporated into the core of wordpress in the future.

Eric: No, you can’t make it display a special message when there are invisible posts. That’s because it removes the posts at the SQL level, so Wordpress doesn’t even know they are there. Sorry.

Ross: Your approach is very similar to that from the original v1.0 plugin. I didn’t like it because often unregistered visitors would be presented with “Nothing to see here”, when in fact there were posts that they could see, just not in the first 10 (or whatever). If you prefer your approach then go for it. I don’t plan to put that feature into my version.