WP-Flock

WP-Flock

Configuration Screen

WP-Flock is a plugin that provides LiveJournal-like custom security groups for posts and pages. It’s more flexible than Post Levels, and less complicated than Role Scoper. Plus it hooks into JournalPress; what more could you want?

The latest updates about the plug-ins development can be found here. To report a bug or request a feature, please use the tracker (not the comments on this page).

Or just download it already.

Show Your Support

Like WP-Flock? We don’t take donations or anything like that, but if you want to show your support for the plug-in, the absolute best thing you can do is link to this page. Even if it’s just in a blog post. Seriously, it’s a big help.

Note that while this plugin is freely released under the GPL, obtaining official support for it will cost you a link. Cruel, I know.

Current Todo

The current list of tasks for the project is:

• Automatically add posts and users to groups;
• Easier integration with JournalPress; and
• More reliable authenticated RSS support.

Already Done…

Version 0.1

• It’s alive! It’s alive!
• Basic friends-locking group functionality completed.

7 Comments on "WP-Flock"

Juno

1064 days ago

12 comments

Great job. I’m very happy to see this plugin.

I will definitely mention your plugin in my series about my WordPress/LiveJournal=OTP?!?! Adventures. A flocking plugin actively developed to synch with a crossposting plugin is a Godsend, seriously.

Especially if it solves the dratted Comments RSS insecurity-problem…

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Dee

1064 days ago

1,654 comments



Especially if it solves the dratted Comments RSS insecurity-problem…

It actually doesn’t at the moment, but I’m aware of the issue and I’ll need to revisit it for the next version.

It’s essentially gonna be some more regexps intercepting query, and they’re a major pain to write. >_O

Juno

1064 days ago

12 comments



That Comments RSS thing has been driving me crazy… and most writers of privacy plugins don’t even seem to be aware of that problem. So muchos kudos. I *think* WP-Sentry has the problem solved right now by re-writing the locked URLs (I’m not a coder, just an inspired user, so I may be wrong there), but the downside of that is that the previous post/next post buttons don’t work anymore (which is not that bad; I can add a line about that in my archives page…but it made me scratch my head something fierce when I noticed that symptom…).

Anyway, you’re doing splendid work for all of us who live with one foot in ElJay desert and the other in WordPress paradies. May the Code be with you!

Dee

1064 days ago

1,654 comments



From what I’ve seen from the insides of most post security plugins, they rip the actual functional part of their code (the “user can has post” query intercepting) pretty much straight out of Post Levels. It only intercepts queries made against the posts table, not the comments one.

I’ve never quite been able to find out why this is, but I guess I’m going to find out when I try and tackle the problem in Flock. (WP’s comment table schema stores the parent post ID in every comment row, even in threaded comments, so I can’t imagine it would be hard to just add in another nested query against the groups table.)

Next on the list is getting authenticated feeds. WP is supposed to support it natively but it doesn’t, so… >_>

James

348 days ago

2 comments

I’ve been in the process over the last day or so of stumbling through a LiveJounral->WP migration and integration; the idea being that I’ve used (and will continue to use) my LJ for a very long time, but I want to migrate to using WP primarily, with some integration of features.

I’m using JournalPress for crossposting, and have WP-flock installed, and OpenID as well, but it is not at all clear to me how WP-flock enables LiveJournal-style friends-locking.

Ideally, what I’d like to have is the ability to create a WP-post which is “flocked” on my WP install, which is crossposted to LJ and flocked there as well. The ideal then is for the magic to happen with OpenID such that any LJ user can log into my WP – using their LJ-affiliated OpenID – and then they can read those posts which are ‘flocked’ on WP if they are a member of the appropriate user group in WP-flock.

It doesn’t look like WP-flock actually does anything of the sort, instead only setting information about how a post should be flocked on LJ when it gets crossposted. Am I incorrect, here? What am I doing wrong?

–J

Dee

348 days ago

1,654 comments



You are incorrect.

WordPress user groups may be set on the edit user page for each user under “Member Of…”. Once a post has been assigned groups, it will only appear to users who are logged in and members of those groups.

James

347 days ago

2 comments



Ah, okay. It’s handled from the user-configuration side rather than from the group-configuration side. It may simply be that I haven’t played with this enough yet. Thanks very much for the heads-up!