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1. ThreeVisual
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Hi All...

   Is there a plugin that will allow me to restrict certain user groups from posting to specific categories?

   Cheers!

2. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Social Access Control will allow you to restrict what category/categories a user can assign to posts. But also causes those categories to not be visible when visiting the blog.

3. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Bind User To Cat does allow you to restrict a user to a category but see other categories on the blog.

   Note that even though the plugin page says "Restricted users won't view the category selection panel in edit screens" at 2.7.1 you can check other categories when writing a post, but only the category 'bound to the user' gets assigned the post.

4. judes74
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   With Social Access Control, does that also hide the comments linked with posts associated with the categories? I currently use User Access manager 7.0.1, but the comments are showing on the dashboard and comment list for all to see. Everything else works great. And I do have checked the Hide comments under settings, but not working????

   Oh, and using 2.7.1 wp

5. ThreeVisual
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Thanks for the links, I'm trying to find something that won't allow users to see restricted categories in the edit screen though. Any other ideas?

6. judes74
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Have you looked into User Access Manager? I like it. To solve my problems from above, I created a new blog just for a private group. Security was very important and I couldn't take ANY chances someone could read a comment.

7. dakranii
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   ThreeVisual: I've been travelling the forums and the net looking for the same solution and I finally came up with a combo that's easy to use and works great.

   First I created a new user role using the Role Manager plugin (you can disable the plugin after you've used it and the roles remain).

   Then I bound individual users within the new role to specific categories made only for them using the Bind User to Category plugin.

   Finally, I hid options and selections (including the category selection option) from those users with the Adminimize plugin. This last plugin was the key that I had been searching for and couldn't find.

   Now, userA can only post to the userA category and it's by default. userB can only post to the userB category by default, etc.

   Hope this helps.

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