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Incredible! That plug-in you made did the trick! Not only that, but it worked flawlessly.

Looking over the code, I don’t I see anything to exclude pages, ect. but I assume it’s not supposed to be there. Those functions would incredibly useful to me, as they would do EXACTLY what I’m looking for.

If it wouldn’t be too much to ask, could you play some more tomorrow or sometime soon?

I can’t really thank you enough for doing this for me. Both of you, Moshu and Kafkaesqui.

*skips off down the sidewalk, new plug-in code in hand*

Moshu:

Oops. Sorry about that. I feel like I’ve been some kind of annoyance now, y’know asking for help and all. (oh jeez, that sounded like an insult… it’s not)

Anyway, I figured out part of the solution I think.

In file “edit-page-form.php”, starting around line 67 the describer for the “Parent Page” drop down menu code is listed there and it looks like…

<fieldset id=”pageparent” class=”dbx-box”>
<h3 class=”dbx-handle”><?php _e(‘Page Parent’) ?></h3>
<div class=”dbx-content”><select name=”parent_id”>
<option value=’0′><?php _e(‘Main Page (no parent)’); ?></option>
<?php parent_dropdown($post->post_parent); ?>
</select>
</div>
</fieldset>

The key line here is:

<option value=’0′><?php _e(‘Main Page (no parent)’);

If you just change the option value to whatever page you want the example:

If I wanted the page whose location is “http://website/wp/?page_id=666&#8221; you would change that line to read

<option value=’666′><?php _e(‘The Satan Page!’);

That last page is just the text that the drop down box lists as default.

Now, this remove the ability to make new pages that have no parents. This isn’t a problem in my case, I have a copy of the original code saved so I can just upload it elsewhere, password protect that page, and just go to whenever I want to make a parent-less page. Not something I really need to do and it’s worth it for this quick fix.

If you have a better solution please list it here, not just for me but also for anyone else who has a similar need. I’ll update this if I think it’s needed.

Ok, I have another idea that would work almost as well. Is there a way that I can edit what pages appear in the drop down box on the right (when someone goes to publish a page), this would be the box where you select a parent.

While that wouldn’t totally eliminate the possibility to post it the wrong place it would severely lessen the chances of someone doing it on accident.

Alright, thanks for the help everyone. That plugin does the trick.

Note for people having the same problem:
The page restriction plugin ads a new permission to all member roles, including Administrator. That means you need to go turn that permission on for any roles you want to be able to edit others pages.

Hmmm. Where do I upload this? I uploaded restrict_pages.php to the role manager plugin folder, but I can’t seem to find any affect.

Those permissions are close to what I need but I don’t want those users to be able to do the following:

Not allowed to:
Write Posts (posts as in the front page posts, not pages)
Edit Pages not created by them

Allowed to:
Create Pages
Edit their own pages

Egh. I seriously cannot tell which one of these (refer to URL to CSS sheet) is for the right sidebar. I’ve never really done anything with CSS and this is from a theme someone made.

It does have labels and notes in it tho. Could someone point me in the right direction here?

http://bomb-omb.com/content/wp-content/themes/bomb-omb1/style.css