Hi Kevin,

Thanks for a great plugin, or for what I'm sure will be a great plugin once I get it working the way I want to.

I want to have a section of my posts that is only visible to users with editing privileges.  I'm almost sure that this is both possible and easy to do with hidden editing elements, so the problem must be me.  I've made sure that my div with the content I want hidden has the id "authordiv" (which is one of the html ids under "post edit form html ids" by default), but any user, no matter how small their role, can still see the content.  Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

-Thanks

Oh, I see.  the way I was trying to do things didn't make any sense.

But even with the hide post plugin I still can't get things working quite the way I want.  What I'd really like to do is display a link directly to the 'add post' part of the backend when the user is viewing a category to which he can add posts.  I tried:

if (current_user_can('publish_posts')) { // display the link}

but this displays the link for all categories if the user can add posts to any category.  So I tried:

if (current_user_can('publish_posts', $_GET["cat"])) { //display the link}

This, of course, doesn't work either, and seems to have the opposite effect: the user only sees the link for any category if he can add posts to all categories. 

It's very puzzling, because I'm calling edit_post_link in the loop, which seems to be working correctly (it only displays if the user can edit posts in the category).  I checked the code and as far as I can tell edit_post_link just calls current_user_can('manage_categories') to determine whether to display the link.

Anyway, all the help is appreciated muchly.

Thank you so much, that works perfectly.  Would you mind terribly explaining what that code is doing?