Title: surpassing wp content authentication
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# surpassing wp content authentication

 *  [Fantast](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fantast/)
 * (@fantast)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/surpassing-wp-content-authentication/)
 * Hi. Im very new at wordpress yet, but I would like to learn more about its functionalities
   and options. Also Im trying to create a wp plugin for multimedia (photo’s, mp3
   and video). In order to do that I send a $GET variable with the url to determine
   which album or item is requested. However, I have no idea how to stop wp from
   diplaying the home page. I assume that there is a hook which gives me the ability
   to disable futher processing of the main content by wp, however i have no idea
   which hook that is. So if anyone could help me with any kind of a clue or point
   me to where to read more about having my own custom pages showing up in wp instead
   of the usuall wp pages, i would be very grateful.
 * thanks in advance,
    Fantast~

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 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/surpassing-wp-content-authentication/#post-699577)
 * Have you tried `exit;` to stop the PHP processing?
 *  Thread Starter [Fantast](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fantast/)
 * (@fantast)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/surpassing-wp-content-authentication/#post-699595)
 * Hey Otto, thanks for the reply.
 * Putting exit in the source code of wp would mean hacking it. Im looking for a
   way to do this solely through a plugin. Maybe i should rephrase my question also
   a bit: is it at all possible to show a page in a wp blog without having created
   it by the usual admin page procedure or hacking into the source code of wp?
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/surpassing-wp-content-authentication/#post-699712)
 * What about putting exit; into your plugin? Exit causes PHP to exit. If you’re
   in a plugin and you exit, then you exit. WP ceases to run, period. Exiting is
   final. So, once you create your page’s output… you exit. No?
 * No hacking of WP source needed.
 *  Thread Starter [Fantast](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fantast/)
 * (@fantast)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/surpassing-wp-content-authentication/#post-699762)
 * I see. But wouldnt that mean that i can no longer use the wordpress template?
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/surpassing-wp-content-authentication/#post-699768)
 * Well…. that’s what you’re saying that you want to do, no?
 * Let’s try it this way: You tell us what the heck you’re trying to do, and we’ll
   tell you how to do it. Okay?
 *  Thread Starter [Fantast](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fantast/)
 * (@fantast)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/surpassing-wp-content-authentication/#post-699787)
 * Thanks for bearing with me Otto, I will try to be more clear with my question.
 * Since I asked the question I have been reading through the wp source code and
   some plugins. That already gave me a solution to my problem (which i only implemented
   today), but its far from a decent solution as it requires hacking of the template
   index page…
 * What i mean to do is the following: I have a new menu in the sidebar with three
   page links: photo’s, mp3 and video. So its basicly a multimedia menu. clicking
   on a menu-item results in the url request: domain/?mm=1. 1 represents photo’s,
   as 2 and 3 will represent mp3’s and videos respectively. The plugin will read
   the get command and generate the code for displaying the albums or the photo’s
   in the albums.
 * At the moment to make sure wp does not read any posts from the database if the
   GET value mm = 1, 2 or 3, i add a filter for the posts_where hook:
    `" AND NOT`
   post_type`= 'post'"` This however results in the error message “Sorry this post
   has been deleted”, which as far as i can see i can only remove through hacking
   the template. Also the code generated in the plugin for displaying the multimedia
   page is displayed through adding a function call in the template page, and thus
   once again involves hacking. I hoped there was an another way to tell wp it doesn’t
   need to generate the content as my plugin already will (but the wp template and
   menus should stay in place, only replacing the posts by my plugin generated code)
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/surpassing-wp-content-authentication/#post-699798)
 * So, how exactly are you replacing the post’s content with your own content? If
   you want your content to be displayed instead of Posts, then you must be inserting
   your information somewhere so that it will be displayed by [The Loop](http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop),
   yes?
 * Or is that what you’re actually asking here? How to replace the Posts data with
   your own data?
 * If so, then you already kinda know the answer. You’re adding the where clause
   to stop the Posts being loaded, but that’s not enough. See, every template (and
   I’m not kidding when I say “every”) uses The Loop in some fashion. When it has
   no posts to display, then the have_posts() call fails and the template does something
   else.
 * So if you’re not going to load the posts, then you need to have it load something
   else. And it must have an author, content, date, etc. Everything a post does.
   Because you don’t want to “hack” the templates, so you have to be capable of 
   replacing any given template, and *all* templates have The Loop.
 * Honestly, it seems to me like you’re taking this a bit too far. Doing it the 
   hard way. If you want a custom Page, just make a Page Template, stick a call 
   to your plugin in it, then add the pagename to your URLs in the links.
 *  Thread Starter [Fantast](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fantast/)
 * (@fantast)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/surpassing-wp-content-authentication/#post-699803)
 * Hey Otto, thanks for the info. I will start looking at the way the loop works
   and how it is handled.
 * The reason why i didn’t want the custom page to be stored as a page is that i
   dont want it to be displayed in the “pages” menu. I need it to have its own multimedia
   menu from where the albums can be accessed. Also since I only just started with
   this project for now it won’t have too much options yet and I would like to keep
   it real simple. That would mean that just uploading the files to the server should
   be enough to display the multimedia menu and its pages.
 * In the future however I will definitely have a look at adding an option to choose
   whether you like to access the albums from the pages menu or a distinct menu.
   Also more information storing possibilities will be added, which will mean that
   i would need more database interaction. For this reason I think it would be wiser
   to already anticipate on those options and thus the method you suggested (using
   the posts table for the basic storage needs of the multimedia pages) might be
   afterall the way to go.
 * This brings me to a different question: I see that the posts and pages are stored
   in the same table, with only one distinction: the post_type column. Now there
   are two ways i could use this to do what you proposed: store a page under a different
   post_type than post / page or create a new table with the ID’s of the posts which
   should be neglected when displaying the normal posts. To me it seems like both
   would work and I actually consider to use both options at the same time to have
   the advantages of both methods: speed of the different post_type method and storing
   extra information of the new table method. My only question (for now) is whether
   there is something I don’t know which makes it less advisebale to use any of 
   the two methods.
 * Thanks in advance~

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