WordPress is a feature-filled blogging platform that even allows you to invite other registered users to write posts or articles as a guest author. However, if you are going to invite many writers or post thousands of articles, it can become inconvenient for you and the individual guest authors to find their own articles. You may also wish to hide posts for privacy or other reasons.
Instead of fiddling around with the actual WordPress code, it is helpful to use a plugin to hide posts in WordPress. The Manage Your Posts Only Reloaded plugin shows only the personal user’s blog entries while hiding the posts written by other authors. When the user goes to the Posts section, he will only see a “Mine” link that shows his own articles.
This plugin is very easy to use and requires no configuration at all. You just upload it to WordPress and install the plugin. Once it is installed, the script will automatically hide the posts made by other guest authors.
However, there is one little problem with this WordPress plugin (based on what I have seen in WordPress 3.3.1). When you install Manage Your Posts Only Reloaded, it only shows the “Add New” page when the guest author goes to the Posts section. Unfortunately, it does not show the guest author’s own articles. To find his own articles, the guest writer needs to click on the “Dashboard” and then click on the number there that corresponds to the site-wide post count. Once on that page, then only the guest author’s articles can be viewed. All other posts are hidden from view to those logging in as a guest writer.
As a site owner or administrator, what this means to you is that you should not hide the dashboard from registered users/guest writers. Otherwise, they will not be able to access their previous articles by using the dashboard. Run a test with a non-admin user account and make sure all of these things are in order before you roll this out to your membership.
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Manage Your Posts Only Reloaded WordPress “Hide Posts” Plugin