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 get a list of all viewable […]
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 hack: In wp-content/plugins/role-scoper/hardway/hardway_rs.php, add if ( […]
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 each branch of the parent […]
Recent changes to the inner working of Role Scoper’s Hidden Content Teaser proved to clash with the Page Category Plus plugin. Anyone using this plugin in conjunction with Role Scoper should upgrade to Role Scoper 0.9.26 as soon as possible to avoid exposure of restricted or private content. At the very least, Page Category Plus […]
The recent releases of Role Scoper don’t deal well with categorized pages, especially when the Hidden Content Teaser is enabled. I will post a fix for later tonight. This only affects users of Page Category Plus or other page-categorizing plugins.