Solution to hide Emails and IP’s from “Contributors”

Well, that’s a nice solution. But no, I don’t have an issue with this because I don’t have people posting that I don’t trust to see emails and IPs.

This is very nice little hack. Been looking for how to do this – thanks!

I did wonder about the problem of hacking core files and esp in relation to the headache of maintaining it with upgrades and the long-term

Just tried your code, it seems to be working very fine indeed.

Thank-you for offering such a superior solution

a question concerning ringmaster’s solution. I am sorry but I didn’t quite understand what to do with this code, where I should put these lines?
/*
Plugin Name: Unmanage Posts
Description: Require manage_posts capability to manage posts
Author: Owen Winkler
Version: 1.0
Author URI: asymptomatic.net/
*/
add_action(‘admin_menu’, ‘my_admin_menu’);
add_filter(‘capabilities_list’, ‘my_caps_list’);
// Redefine some menu cap requirements:
function my_admin_menu() {
// Make the menu variables accessable here:
global $menu, $submenu;
$submenu[‘edit.php’][5] = array(__(‘Posts’), ‘manage_posts’, ‘edit.php’);
}
// Define a new capability for the Role Manager to use:
function my_caps_list($caps) {
$caps[] = ‘manage_posts’;
return $caps;
}

could you help me out? thank you

I’ve done citeewurkor’s hack below. It works fine but whenever a change is made to a profile, I receive the following error:

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/d4v/public_html/wp-admin/menu.php:67) in /home/d4v/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable-functions.php on line 272.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

citeewurkor’s hack:
I’ve come up with a slight modification that will solve this problem.

First go get the very excellent plugin “Role Manager”.
Follow the instructions there to install the plugin. Be sure on your plugins page after activation the plugin version is 1.3. I had problems getting earlier versions to work.
Ok, now go to Users/Roles in your dashboard.
Scroll down to the “Contributor” section.
Make sure that “edit posts” is checked with a green check mark. Make sure that “read” also is checked with a green check mark. Now change the userlevel to 0.

Concurrently you will need to slightly modify the menu.php file in your admin folder.

First backup menu.php in case you need to revert back.
In menu.php find the following line:
$submenu[‘edit.php’][5] = array(__(‘Posts’), ‘edit_posts’, ‘edit.php’);
Change it to this:
$submenu[‘edit.php’][5] = array(__(‘Posts’), 1, ‘edit.php’);

Now find the following line:
$submenu[‘edit.php’][20] = array(__(‘Comments’), ‘edit_posts’, ‘edit-comments.php’);
Change it to this:
$submenu[‘edit.php’][20] = array(__(‘Comments’), 1, ‘edit-comments.php’);
Save the file and upload it to your admin folder.

What this does.
Now users you have given the ability to write posts, but NOT post them will be able to do so. The “manage” button in their dashboard will be disabled and will return a page that says “you do not have sufficient privileges to access this page.”
This will protect the email addresses and IP addresses from being shown.
There is probably a better way to accomplish this, but it has worked for me and I hope this helps someone.

By the way, you can use the new plugin Role Manager to create new roles and implement the same capabilities.
As far as I can tell, this doesn’t affect any other roles.

This is my first attempt at a hack, so forgive me if it’s really ugly!