Hi Kevin,

upgraded now to WP2.7 RC2, just a little issue in the backend, the recent comments on the Dashboard seems to reveal a comment excerpt which seems not filtered in any way…all (well the recent 5) excerpts are visible to all my users

Cheers

YikYak

Hi Kevin,

I'm working with the latest (? RC9.9311), I have no idea how long ago this feature might have changed, but I just noticed that the recent comments filtering in the admin back end does not seem to be working

It's fine on the site front.

(ooops, having search for this content, I just noticed this is not a great post title, sorry….I'm working with WP2.7.1)

Hold that thought. I just realized that this RS revision fixes the comment edit links in the Edit Comments listing, but not in the Dasbboard listing.

What WordPress role do those users have, and how are the posts being restricted?

My users are all authors. I think "standard" ones, I do have Role Manager installed, but don't do much with it. I created a Role called "0809 students" which is just a copy of the author role, but allows me to use the blog over a number of (academic) years and keep the content hidden as appropriate.

I have set up my blog so that there are a number of general categories available to all the current users+admin.These categories are completely restricted via RS. The admin is category assigned as post editor and category manager, and the users (they all belong to the same group, and the group is assigned) authors

Non registered users can see nothing in my blog, save for one category with a "you need an account" post in it. A few categories are open to all registered users, the users are authors in these categories.

Each user also has a unique named category into which they are assigned named authors via RS. No one else (save for the admion) can read posts in these named categories, so it's designed to be a 1-to-1 area with the admin. It seems to work as desired.

Is that enough info for you?

it does not seem quite right.

in respect of RC9.9312b

my users cannot now see the comment excerpts on the posts they cannot read, that is in the right direction, but they now appear to blocked out/filtered from too much.

I had a quick test with two accounts - sorry my blog is not full of test data, so it is not easy to make clear deductions - it seems that:

my users can see the comment exceprts in their own named categories in the blog where they are assigned to be authors (good, as expected)

my users cannot now see the comment excepts in the general categories where they have author capabilites assigned via being in an RS group (not as I would intend). 

the blog front recent comments widget remains ok.

The users cannot edit these posts, so I would not expect them to be able to edit the comments. That seems fine, and works as expected. The "comments" dashboard menu item (for managing comments) does not allow any editing. It does not list the comments, but I am ok with that, since that area seems to be about comment editing.

But the users can read these posts in the general categories, and they can read the associated comments in blog front, so I would have expected these comments (exceprts) to appear in the dashboard "recent comments" listing/widget.

Hi Kevin,

I don't want you to do something overly complicated just for me. I think you work hard enouigh on this plugin as it is. I'll advise my users about the dashboard view. Thanks for adding the protection that you did add.