http://agapetry.net Carefully calculated acts of unselfish love. Wordpress-powered website development with grit and flair. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:13:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Talk about a positive spin.  A support forum user (blacklotus) reported a bug with the display and linking of the Roles and Restrictions menus.  This problem only affects non-admin users, and only appeared in 1.0.0 Beta 6.  Since "Beta 7" sounds too unprofessional, I'm focusing on the positive and calling ... http://agapetry.net/news/role-scoper-100-release-candidate-1/ Thanks to an observant user (Rob) for flagging me on an important bug whose fix now forces the release of Role Scoper 1.0.0 Beta 6. The bug only pertains to previous 1.0.0 Beta releases.  The new bulk administration form for setting Post/Page restrictions did not correctly store the restriction data ... http://agapetry.net/news/role-scoper-100-beta-6-fixes-postpage-restriction-bug/ Now that the version 1.0.0 bug reports have stopped trickling in, I'm activating Role Scoper 1.0.0 Beta 5 as the current stable release, with update notification in the Role Scoper Options panel of installed copies.  Beta 5 also adds xhtml validation fixes, an updated language file and a revised Usage ... http://agapetry.net/news/role-scoper-100-beta-5/ Those anxious to try the upcoming WordPress 2.7 beta release can give Role Scoper 1.0.0 beta 4 a test run with it.  This WP 2.7 support is preliminary and subject to further testing. A few bugs and plugin compatibility issues are also fixed: doc: added RoleScoper_PluginCompat.html to document plugin incompatibilities.  Includes code ... http://agapetry.net/news/role-scoper-100-beta-4-supports-wp-27/ Well, in my haste to rush out a responsive fix to several beta issues, I overlooked the creation of a new one.  An easy fix, but sorry to those who wasted their time trying Beta 2.  The other fixes and features mentioned in the Beta 2 post still apply in ... http://agapetry.net/news/role-scoper-100-beta-3/ Here's a beta bug fix revision almost completely driven by user feedback: Role Scoper 1.0.0 Beta 2.  Although we're now closer to a stable release, this version still needs more testing before being trusted to a production site.  Changes are as follows: feature: Filter Recent Comments list (built-in widget) according to ... http://agapetry.net/news/role-scoper-100-beta-2/ Role Scoper 1.0.0 Beta 1.  It won't stabilize your currency, but it might inspire you to create a sacrificial act out of thin air - and give it away.  This may be my last month-of-labor RS offering, but I can tell you there's freedom in the occasional practice of cutting ... http://agapetry.net/news/role-scoper-100-beta-1/ Here's a code patch for anyone bothered by Role Scoper's disobedience of the child_of parameter.  Human translation: When you are viewing a page on the front end of your site, if your theme normally narrows the sidebar pages listing down to subpages of the current page, you will instead ... http://agapetry.net/news/code-patch-for-listing-child-pages/ Due to a bug I introduced a few versions ago, private pages can only be listed in your site's sidebar / topbar if Role Scoper's hidden content teaser is enabled. To make private pages listable for users with a sufficient role, please perform the following officially sanctioned Role Scoper ... http://agapetry.net/news/code-patch-for-listing-private-pages/ Starting around Role Scoper 0.9.15, a new Page Parent filtering scheme for non-administrators allowed pages to be displayed with correct hierarchy even if the user lacks association rights on one or more ancestors.  I must repent in sackcloth and ashes for the means used to accomplish this: re-querying pages at ... http://agapetry.net/news/fixing-the-page-edit-slowdown/