Today is your lucky day. That feature is already built into b2evolution. When you're posting, set the status to Protected instead of Published and only site members will be able to see it.

Then create accounts for your readers (or enable self-registration). Then go to the premissions sub-tab for your blog and set approved users to be 'Members' of that blog. Don't give them permission to post, just mark them as a member and they'll be able to see protected posts.

personman wrote:

Today is your lucky day. That feature is already built into b2evolution. When you're posting, set the status to Protected instead of Published and only site members will be able to see it.

Then create accounts for your readers (or enable self-registration). Then go to the premissions sub-tab for your blog and set approved users to be 'Members' of that blog. Don't give them permission to post, just mark them as a member and they'll be able to see protected posts.

hey I know this is possible this way ...but infact we are using something which is not made for this job ...it is like drinking beer with bowl ! wink

I meant you may better do some kind of Appereance things...and add that to B2evo's feature list... and do something that ppl who register , dont feel like they are member of the blog...they should feel they are a private reader !
and their name shouldnt be shown as Contribitor of the blog...
(if they register their name will be shown in the contribitor list... thats why i say it is like drinking beer in bowl..)

you better make a glass for this and add it as a new feature of b2 , i am sure it will make a lot of Sound and will make many ppl to use b2.

plus if you add this feature that I said as a seprate thing , you Open the Topic , to develope it more...so other ppl may make new hacks and mods for it .

for example somebody can make a hack that Private posts be only shown for users in North America.

[this can be done by a script that Discovers ppl's IP location]

and many other things...so I stronggly ask you guys to think about it.

thanks
medya

I still don't really see what you're getting at. Protected posts seem like exactly what you're asking for. What contributor list are you talking about? I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to exclude certain users from a list. It might be easier to glue a handle onto the bowl and stretch it a bit, rather than to scrap the bowl and build a glass from scratch.