manstraw

what are the permissions on your uploads folder?

you can create your own page templates. you can put your form stuff on these custom page templates. I might use one page template, and use some php to tell if there are post values. (use post instead of get, so you don’t conflict with wordpress). Process the post values if true, or write the form if false. So the first time a person comes to the page, they see the form. They enter values, hit submit, and the form takes them to the same page. But this time there are post values, so you instead do whatever it is you want to do with them.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_your_own_Page_Templates

You could custom edit the sidebar.php to manually insert an extra link at the beginning or the end of the list. But I personally wouldn’t recommend doing that. The whole point of that block of navigation links is that it’s to pages on your domain.

If you install widgets, you can easily create extra block of links etc. that will appear in your sidebar.

yep, as I mentioned, contributors instead of authors.

I don’t see the problem do what I think you want. You already have the role manager plugin and limit categories. Just create new roles, and assign priviledges as you need. Or maybe I’m not getting exactly what you want.

Look for the Category Access plugin. It lets you do what you want. You can specify the categories that the public can read (could be none), and then the categories that new signups (subscribers) can read, and then people above subscriber can read everything, except I think you edit that on a user by user basis.

Here’s the page you download it from. Scroll right to the bottom.

http://www.coppit.org/code/

you’re not really supposed to call pages like that directly in your theme. you’re not loading all the functions and such when you try and bypass. What does the summary.php do? How can you view it in your browser? Basically, figure out how to access just by typing a uri in your browser, and use that uri in your php code.

Yes, instead of authors, make people contributors. Everything they write up for a post will need to be approved. They can’t directly publish.

Actually, I’ll go leave some feedback on your site as well. I consider this plugin fairly useful, although I worry slightly about the potential for someone to cockup their database.

It’s dumb question time. Is it only the admin user that can access it? (I would expect so) I’m wondering if access to it could be set in the roles manager plugin.