[wp-hackers] Creating an "Author Cafe"

[William Canino]

Thanks for the replies!  I've begun using the suggestions.

During testing, I am finding that many "recent comment" widgets and
dashboard widgets, such as the ones built in the core, do not check
whether its associated post or page is actually published and is not
private.

Meanwhile, the comments_array filter hook is only applied inside the
comments_template() function.

Has anybody looked at correcting this?

2009/10/1 Dion Hulse (dd32) <wordpress at dd32.id.au>:
> How about, instead of excluding, you include specifically?
>
> Create a new post, Set its post_status to 'private-author-cafe' or similar
> filter the WHERE clause if the current user is an editor or admin, of
> "($old_where) OR post_status == 'private-author-cafe'
>
> Seems like a possibility..
>
> On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:50:18 +1000, Austin Matzko <if.website at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:32 AM, William Canino
>> <william.canino at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm thinking of creating one post, comments enabled, say post_id =
>>> 100, that is visible only to authors and editors.  This post mustn't
>>> appear in feeds or to non-authors, and its comments mustn't appear in
>>> the comments feed.
>>>
>>> All the plugins I've seen that offer to do this seem to use a WP_Query
>>> filter callback. It seems a big waste for the blog to scan each and
>>> every query post array and take out this one post for 99% of the
>>> world.  Is there a better way?  Do you have a better suggestion?
>>
>> You could use the posts_where filter, and append a WHERE clause to
>> every non-relevant query:
>>
>> " AND {$wpdb->posts}.ID != 100"
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