[Plugin: Front-end Editor] Only show Front End editor for posts belonging to a particular category?

Well, you could do something like this (not tested):

class frontEd_check_cat extends frontEd_basic {
  function check($post_id) {
    return frontEd_basic::check($post_id)
    && in_category('YOUR-CATEGORY-SLUG');
  }
}

add_action('front_ed_fields', 'front_ed_overwrite');
function front_ed_overwrite() {
  register_fronted_field('the_content',  array(
    'class' => 'frontEd_check_cat'
  ));
}

Just add it to functions.php in your theme directory.

I figured out why it wasn’t working. You need to download the development version (1.4a2) and add this code to functions.php:

add_action('front_ed_fields', 'front_ed_overwrite');
function front_ed_overwrite() {

	class frontEd_check_cat extends frontEd_basic {
		function check($post_id) {
			return parent::check($post_id)
			&& in_category('YOUR-CATEGORY-SLUG');
		}
	}

	register_fronted_field('the_content', array(
		'class' => 'frontEd_check_cat'
	));
}

If you have ‘Edit paragraphs’ enabled, you should replace frontEd_basic with frontEd_chunks in the code above.

Here you go:

add_action('front_ed_fields', 'front_ed_overwrite');
function front_ed_overwrite() {
	class frontEd_check_cat extends frontEd_basic {
		function check($post_id) {
			$page_parent = 123;
			$parents = get_post_ancestors($post_id);

			return parent::check($post_id)
			&& in_array($page_parent, $parents);
		}
	}

	register_fronted_field('the_content', array(
		'class' => 'frontEd_check_cat'
	));
}

Hi Scribu

Is the dev version still available? I tried to download at the link above but could only access 1.3.3 under the Developer Version link. If that’s right, would that explain why, when I tried the code you provided above for limiting the functionality to a certain category, it didn’t work?

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks again for the plugin. It’s superb.

Richard

Hi again Scribu

I’ve installed the version of the plugin you linked to, added the category-related code above to the theme’s functions.php file and replaced ‘YOUR-CATEGORY-SLUG’ with the name of the relevant category, i.e., ‘wikified’.

What happens now is that only posts in the ‘wikified’ category are editable by double-clicking them on the front end of the site (which is good). However, when you double-click, instead of bringing up the text of the post in the edit box, it brings up an empty edit box (not so good).

Any ideas on what is happening here please?

Many thanks in advance for your help. It’s much appreciated.

Richard

P.S. I’ve swapped out themes to see if that’s the problem. It’s not. (I note, by the way, that this testing revealed that the plugin doesn’t seem to work at all with the Thematic theme.)

nzde: On second thought, if you’re having problems specific to a certain theme, please open a new topic.

nzde:

No ideea why that’s happening. However, seeing how several people need to restrict which posts to edit, I’ve made it easier to do that.

Download the latest version (1.4a3) and replace the code above with this:

add_filter('front_ed_allow_post', 'restrict_to_category', 10, 2);
function restrict_to_category($allow, $post_id) {
	return $allow && in_category('Your Category', $post_id);
}

The main advantage of this code is that it restricts access for all post fields, not just the post content.

Hope it fixes your problem.