1) in the index.php file, in your “postmetadata” area, you can put in by <?php the_author() ?>
2) Role Manager
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glennk
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My Index.php looks like this ?
<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);
require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);
?>
Is this the wrong one ?
Cheers – Glenn
looks like what? You need to use the ` to post code – otherwise, it’s invisible.
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glennk
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Can you see it now ? also I installed role manager ? but what does it do ? I activated it but do I need to do anything else ? cheers – Glenn
Glenn, no – that’s the index.php in the root directory of WP. Never touch that!
When we are talking about editing files, it is always about files in your theme folder!
Find this line in the index of your theme:
<p class="info">Posted under <?php the_category(); ?></p>
and add the author:
<p class="info">Posted under <?php the_category(); ?> by <?php the_author(); ?></p>
Actually, you don’t really need the Role Manager (sorry, doodlebee) – make the new registrants “contributors” and they can write posts but not publish: an editor or admin has to approve them.
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glennk
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Well I thought it cleared it up. I assigned a made up user the rights of a contributer. I logged in as the contributer and wrote a post. There was no option to publish ???(is this how it should be ?) I saved the post as draft then went into the site as admin. Nothing was flagged up as waiting moderation ? Have I done something wrong or have I misunderstood this ?
I am also experimenting with a plugin called post moderation which hopefully will do what I want. But Im getting the following error
WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘u.user_firstname’ in ‘field list’]
SELECT p.ID, p.post_author, p.post_date, p.post_name AS post_title, p.post_content, u.user_firstname, u.user_lastname, u.user_nickname, u.user_email FROM wp_posts p LEFT JOIN wp_users u ON u.ID=p.post_author WHERE post_status = ‘hold’ AND p.post_author=4
Does anyone know anything about this plugin ?
If you play with the plugin – I am out of the game: have no idea what it does.
I repeat: you do not need any plugin. Log in as admin > Write.
At the top you should see: “your drafts” – if any, and “others drafts”. The article submitted by the contributor should be there.
On the other hand you should decide what you want. here are two statements from your:
1. Also is there a way to stop new posts showing until I moderate them ?
2. …as the contributer and wrote a post. There was no option to publish ?
Now which one do you want? Let them publish or you want to moderate??? Make up your mind.
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glennk
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Hi Moshu,
Im just trying to think in the mind of someone who came to the site and signed up as a member and was hoping to be able to publish news. To see only save and save and continue options would to me signify a problem, I would be thinking where is the post button ?
I think it would be better if they joined up and then posted and were given the message “your post is awaiting admin moderation” This way seems more natural to me and it appears that this is what this plug in does if I can get past the error.
Ill make a post to the plugin section and see if anyone in there can help.
Thanks for your assistance and thanks for the help with the other issue which is now working fine.
Sorry I’m coming back late 🙂
What moshu said is true – you don’t *need* the plugin (I apologize for going overkill on that! LOL) but after further reading, Role Manager could be what you want. Yes, you install it, but then you need to assign the roles and give them custom capabilities. That’s the purpose of the plugin (to add it and then do nothing doesn’t really do anything for you. You gotta use it if you want it to be helpful.) I’ve never used the plugin *myself* (aside form setting it up), but I have several clients who use it and love it. So I can’t tell you if the “Post” button disappears, or if there’s a message saying that the post is awaiting moderation. but you may want to play with it a bit and see if it’s truly what you want.
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glennk
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Hi I installed the Role Manager plugin and got an error
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class rolemanager in /home/glennk/public_html/north-east-fishing-news/wp-content/plugins/rolemanager/role-manager.php on line 21
Can anyone say what the problem is please ?
