Allow posting to registered users on one specific page only?

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    18 years, 5 months ago

    Is that possible?
    Also, I am in a foreign country, meaning that I admin my Korean blog in English (I’ve translated the comments menu). However, if I allow Korean users to post on a specific page, I’d like the post interface to be in Korean: can I translate the interface or will that be impossible because the interface is common all users whatever the page of the posting (see what I mean?)?
    Another thing, do you think I can just replace the wp-register.php file with the one in the Korean version of WP?

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  • To answer your first question:

    Yes, it’s possible. There may be restrictions though that you may deem unacceptable. There are several methods to do this.

    You could use query_posts() or get_posts() to retrieve posts by author for a certain page. However, this would require you to exclude these authors from other wordpress loops. Or you could restrict registered users to post in certain categories and then you could use the same two functions above to query specific categories for a page. Again though, you would have to then exclude these categories from other loops.

    I’d encourage you to read more about query_posts() and get_posts() in the codex here:
    get_posts
    query_posts

    As far as your other questions I’m not sure, that’s not my area of expertise.

    I don’t think the solution would be that complicated as stated above.
    First of all we should clarify what do you mean by “specific pages only”. If you meant Pages – the answer is no, you can not!
    However, you can limit where certain user groups can post by using the Limit Categories plugins > see Codex > Plugins > Restriction.

    As for the language question: the Gengo plugin allowes users to set their own language in the admin panel/area (provided the proper .mo files are installed).
    With some tweaking the front-end navigation (menu in the sidebar) can be also changed automatically depending on what language you are reading.

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    Thank you both for your advice.
    I was looking at the limit categories plugins (Category Access 0.6.0). I thought I could use that to restrict user posting to one category and then combine it with a category invisibility plugin to hide this category from the main feed/page. Do you think that would be easy to implement?
    About the language issue, I’m looking at the Genko plugin, it’s great news that you can let users choose Korean as admin language while I go on administering in English, but do you think it would be possible to set the plugin so that Korean is the default language whenever a user posts? If they have to press a button everytime to toggle it would be a hassle.
    Thanks again for your help.

    Now, when I say “Limit Categories” – that means exactly a plugin with that title. It does nothing else but limiting the categories where users can post! Why don’t you read carefully?

    Don’t mix things: limiting users where to post and defining what categories to show on your main page – are two very different issues and they are NOT related. You have to address them in different ways…

    The Gengo plugin has zillion possibilites and settings. You can set the “general” default language to Korean and English for yourself.

    Set up a testblog and expertiment – we can’t answer all the detailed questions. You got the directions, now go and work with them.

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