[wp-hackers] Creating an "Author Cafe"
William Canino
william.canino at googlemail.com
Thu Oct 1 05:32:10 UTC 2009
In my multi-author blog, I have a couple of editor accounts plus a
dozen author accounts and growing.
To protect the anonymity of everyone, the blog's policy is that only
editors above will ever get to see anybody's email address. To do
this, I redefined wp_notify_postauthor(), and I restricted access to
edit-comments.php with an init hook.
The pain right now is that the authors could not discuss privately or
coordinate amongst each other. Obviously I can't start a YahooGroups
or something for this.
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?
Best regards,
W
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