Title: Modify ViewLevel  Plugin
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Modify ViewLevel Plugin

 *  [rocky2889](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rocky2889/)
 * (@rocky2889)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modify-viewlevel-plugin/)
 * How hard is to modify the ViewLevel Plugin to work with WP1.5
    I think the author
   of the pluging is not updating it anymore.
 * Rocky

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 *  [twistedemotions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/twistedemotions/)
 * (@twistedemotions)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modify-viewlevel-plugin/#post-142079)
 * I second that motion. Also for the next version of wordpress(1.6?) I’d like to
   see it integrated in a clean manner (into the user interface, use it on categories
   as well as posts, etc.).
 *  [twistedemotions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/twistedemotions/)
 * (@twistedemotions)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modify-viewlevel-plugin/#post-142081)
 * Tried out just throwing the old viewlevel and wordpress 1.5 together.
 * Sorta works. You have to not be using a calender (as I don’t know how to fix 
   that).
 * For some reason it hides the post but displays the “Sorry, you need to be logged
   in to see this post” message regardless of what I set $private_message variable
   to.
 * The fact it hides the post is encouraging.
 *  [frrtbkr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frrtbkr/)
 * (@frrtbkr)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modify-viewlevel-plugin/#post-142193)
 * I’d love to see this.
 * Has anyone tried contacting the woman that made it?
 *  Thread Starter [rocky2889](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rocky2889/)
 * (@rocky2889)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modify-viewlevel-plugin/#post-142201)
 * There is no news on this subject so far. May be someone can pickup the work.
 *  [theprog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theprog/)
 * (@theprog)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modify-viewlevel-plugin/#post-142204)
 * I’ve gotten the thing working.
    I’d post the updated file somewhere, but I’m 
   not certain of the original license on the plugin. Here’s the changes 1. The ‘
   filter_posts…’ line is no longer needed in wp-blog-header.php 2. Replace the ‘
   wp_head’ filter with ‘the_posts’ 3. Replace the filter_posts function with this
   one: ` function filter_posts($allposts){ global $show_private_message, $feed;
   if (!empty($feed) || !$show_private_message){ if (is_array($allposts)){ foreach(
   $allposts as $post){ $vl=viewlevel($post->ID); if (!should_be_hidden($post)) 
   $goodposts[]=$post; } return $goodposts; } } return $allposts; }
 * The only questionable part of this code is that WP is updating the post caches
   after the posts are filtered. Perhaps the caching should be done afterwards, 
   or perhaps a second filter should be added after caches are generated.
 *  [scottish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottish/)
 * (@scottish)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modify-viewlevel-plugin/#post-142205)
 * When you say “Replace the ‘wp_head’ filter with ‘the_posts’,” do you mean simply
   change this line in viewlevel.php:
 * `add_filter('wp_head','filter_posts');`
 * to
 * `add_filter('the_posts','filter_posts');`
 * ?
 * After making that change and replacing the filter_posts function, the protected
   entries disappear even from people who should be able to see them.
 *  Thread Starter [rocky2889](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rocky2889/)
 * (@rocky2889)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modify-viewlevel-plugin/#post-142209)
 * If would be nice if someone has the experience modify the View Level plug-in 
   and submit the plug-in for the community.
 * Thanks
 *  [theprog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theprog/)
 * (@theprog)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modify-viewlevel-plugin/#post-142212)
 * You got the filter_posts part right. Given that the original author’s site is
   still down, I have no way to contact her with my updates. Furthermore, I no longer
   have the original file, so I might have left a few of the changes out. Specifically,
   I don’t remember if the “get_currentuserinfo();” line (in should_be_hidden())
   was in the original or not, now that I think of it.
 * Since other and I haven’t been able to contact the original author, I’ll post
   the complete file here:
 * viewlevel-1.1.3.php:
    ` <?php /* Plugin Name: View Levels v.1.1.2 Plugin URI:
   http://www.furbona.org/viewlevel.html Description: When posts have a custom field
   called "viewlevel" set, only lets users with that user level or above see the
   post. Author: Kendra Burbank Author URI: http://www.furbona.org */  global $show_private_message,
   $private_message; global $vl_default, $show_viewlevel, $padlock_filename;
 * // Configuration
    $show_private_message=1; // Set this to 1 if you want to show
   a message instead of hiding private posts completely from unauthorized viewers
   $private_message="Sorry, you need to be logged in to see this post."; // The 
   message that unauthorized viewers will see if $show_private_posts is set to 1
 * $vl_default=0; // The userlevel required to see posts that don't have any viewlevel
   specified. If set to 1 or above, unregistered users won't be
    // able to see 
   posts unless you specify vl=0 within the post.
 * $show_viewlevel=0; // Set this to 1 if you want to show the viewlevel you've 
   set next to the padlock icon.
    //Thanks to Dave Disser! $padlock_filename="padlock.
   gif"; // Name of the padlock icon file (should be stored in wp-images/)
 *  add_filter('the_title','post_padlock');
    add_filter('the_title','error_text');
   add_filter('the_content','hide_text'); add_filter('single_post_title','error_text');
   add_filter('comment_url','hide_text'); add_filter('comment_excerpt','hide_text');
   add_filter('comment_email','hide_text'); add_filter('comment_author','hide_text');
   add_filter('comment_text','hide_text'); add_filter('the_title_rss','error_text');
   add_filter('the_excerpt','hide_text'); add_filter('the_posts','filter_posts');
   add_action('publish_post','find_tag',1);
 *  function filter_posts($allposts){
    global $show_private_message, $feed; if (!
   empty($feed) || !$show_private_message){ if (is_array($allposts)){ foreach ($
   allposts as $post){ $vl=viewlevel($post->ID); if (!should_be_hidden($post)) $
   goodposts[]=$post; } return $goodposts; } } return $allposts; }
 * function post_padlock($text){
    global $show_viewlevel, $padlock_filename; if (
   $show_viewlevel) { $leveltext='<sup>'.intval(viewlevel()).'</sup> '; } else {
   $leveltext=" "; } if (viewlevel()){ $text='<img src=''.$site_root.'/wp-images/'.
   $padlock_filename.'' border='0'/>'.$leveltext.$text; } return $text; }
 *  function hide_text($text){
    if (should_be_hidden()){ $text=''; } return $text;}
 *  function error_text($text){
    global $private_message, $user_level; if (should_be_hidden()){
   $text=$private_message;  } // $text = post_padlock($text); return $text; }
 *  function should_be_hidden($post=0){
    get_currentuserinfo(); if(!$post) global
   $post; global $user_level, $comment; $ul=intval($user_level);
 *  $vl=viewlevel($post->ID);
    if ($ul<$vl) return 1; if($comment->comment_post_ID){
   $vl=viewlevel($comment->comment_post_ID); if ($ul<$vl) return 1; } return 0; }
 *  function viewlevel($id=0){
    global $wpdb, $tablepostmeta,$vl_default; if (!$
   id) global $id; if ($id) $vl= $wpdb->get_var("SELECT meta_value FROM $tablepostmeta
   WHERE post_id = $id AND meta_key = 'viewlevel'"); if ($vl=="") $vl=$vl_default;
   return $vl; }
 * function find_tag($id){
    // This is the function that looks for the vl tag in
   the posts you publish. global $tablepostmeta, $wpdb,$tableposts,$post_meta_cache;
   $content = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT post_content FROM $tableposts WHERE ID = '$
   id'"); if (preg_match('/vl=([d]*)/i',$content,$match)){ $content=addslashes($
   content); $content=format_to_post(balanceTags(preg_replace('/vl=[d]*/i','',$content)));
   $results=$wpdb->query("UPDATE $tableposts SET post_content = '$content' WHERE
   ID = $id"); if($wpdb->get_var("SELECT meta_value FROM $tablepostmeta WHERE post_id
   = $id AND meta_key = 'viewlevel'")){ $results= $wpdb->query("UPDATE $tablepostmeta
   SET meta_value = $match[1] WHERE post_id = '$id' AND meta_key = 'viewlevel'");}
   else { $results = $wpdb->query("INSERT INTO $tablepostmeta (post_id,meta_key,
   meta_value)  VALUES ('$id','viewlevel',$match[1])"); } } return $id; }
 * function get_calendar_vl_safe($daylength = 1) {
 * // Stolen from the main calendar code
 * global $wpdb, $m, $monthnum, $year, $timedifference, $month, $month_abbrev, $
   weekday, $weekday_initial, $weekday_abbrev, $tableposts, $posts;
    global $tablepostmeta,
   $user_level,$vl_default;
 *  $ul=$user_level;
    if(!$ul) $ul=0;
 * if($ul>=$vl_default){
    $addtoquery="AND (meta_key IS NULL OR (meta_key = 'viewlevel'
   AND meta_value <= $ul))"; } else { $addtoquery="AND (meta_key = 'viewlevel' AND
   meta_value <= $ul)"; }
 *  // Quick check. If we have no posts at all, abort!
    if (!$posts) { $gotsome 
   = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT ID from $tableposts LEFT JOIN $tablepostmeta on ID=post_id
   WHERE post_status = 'publish' $addtoquery ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 1"); 
   if (!$gotsome) return; }
 *  if (isset($_GET['w'])) {
    $w = ''.intval($_GET['w']); }
 *  $add_hours = intval(get_settings('gmt_offset'));
    $add_minutes = intval(60 *(
   get_settings('gmt_offset') - $add_hours));
 *  // Let's figure out when we are
    if (!empty($monthnum) && !empty($year)) { $
   thismonth = ''.zeroise(intval($monthnum), 2); $thisyear = ''.intval($year); }
   elseif (!empty($w)) { // We need to get the month from MySQL $thisyear = ''.intval(
   substr($m, 0, 4)); $d = (($w - 1) * 7) + 6; //it seems MySQL's weeks disagree
   with PHP's $thismonth = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT DATE_FORMAT((DATE_ADD('${thisyear}
   0101', INTERVAL $d DAY) ), '%m')"); } elseif (!empty($m)) { $calendar = substr(
   $m, 0, 6); $thisyear = ''.intval(substr($m, 0, 4)); if (strlen($m) < 6) { $thismonth
   = '01'; } else { $thismonth = ''.zeroise(intval(substr($m, 4, 2)), 2); } } else{
   $thisyear = gmdate('Y', current_time('timestamp') + get_settings('gmt_offset')*
   3600); $thismonth = gmdate('m', current_time('timestamp') + get_settings('gmt_offset')*
   3600); }
 *  $unixmonth = mktime(0, 0 , 0, $thismonth, 1, $thisyear);
 *  // Get the next and previous month and year with at least one post
    $previous
   = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT DISTINCT MONTH(post_date) AS month, YEAR(post_date) 
   AS year FROM $tableposts LEFT JOIN $tablepostmeta on ID=post_id WHERE post_date
   < '$thisyear-$thismonth-01' AND post_status = 'publish' $addtoquery ORDER BY 
   post_date DESC LIMIT 1"); $next = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT DISTINCT MONTH(post_date)
   AS month, YEAR(post_date) AS year FROM $tableposts LEFT JOIN $tablepostmeta on
   ID=post_id WHERE post_date > '$thisyear-$thismonth-01' AND MONTH( post_date )!
   = MONTH( '$thisyear-$thismonth-01' ) AND post_status = 'publish' $addtoquery 
   ORDER BY post_date ASC LIMIT 1");
 *  echo '<table id="wp-calendar">
    <caption>' . $month[zeroise($thismonth, 2)] .''.
   date('Y', $unixmonth) . '</caption> <thead> <tr>';
 *  $day_abbrev = $weekday_initial;
    if ($daylength > 1) { $day_abbrev = $weekday_abbrev;}
 *  foreach ($weekday as $wd) {
    echo "ntt<th abbr=\"$wd\" scope=\"col\" title=\"
   $wd\">" . $day_abbrev[$wd] . '</th>'; }
 *  echo '
    </tr> </thead>
 *  <tfoot>
    <tr>';
 *  if ($previous) {
    echo "ntt".'<td abbr="' . $month[zeroise($previous->month,
   2)] . '" colspan="3" id="prev"><a href="' . get_month_link($previous->year, $
   previous->month) . '" title="' . sprintf(__('View posts for %1$s %2$s'), $month[
   zeroise($previous->month, 2)], date('Y', mktime(0, 0 , 0, $previous->month, 1,
   $previous->year))) . '">&laquo; ' . $month_abbrev[$month[zeroise($previous->month,
   2)]] . '</a></td>'; } else { echo "ntt".'<td colspan="3" id="prev" class="pad"
   >&nbsp;</td>'; }
 *  echo "ntt".'<td class="pad">&nbsp;</td>';
 *  if ($next) {
    echo "ntt".'<td abbr="' . $month[zeroise($next->month, 2)] . '"
   colspan="3" id="next"><a href="' . get_month_link($next->year, $next->month) .'"
   title="View posts for ' . $month[zeroise($next->month, 2)] . ' ' . date('Y', 
   mktime(0, 0 , 0, $next->month, 1, $next->year)) . '">' . substr($month[zeroise(
   $next->month, 2)], 0, 3) . ' &raquo;</a></td>'; } else { echo "ntt".'<td colspan
   ="3" id="next" class="pad">&nbsp;</td>'; }
 *  echo '
    </tr> </tfoot>
 *  <tbody>
    <tr>';
 *  // Get days with posts
    $dayswithposts = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT DISTINCT
   DAYOFMONTH(post_date) FROM $tableposts LEFT JOIN $tablepostmeta on ID=post_id
   WHERE MONTH(post_date) = $thismonth AND YEAR(post_date) = $thisyear AND post_status
   = 'publish' $addtoquery AND post_date < '" . current_time('mysql') . ''', ARRAY_N);
   if ($dayswithposts) { foreach ($dayswithposts as $daywith) { $daywithpost[] =
   $daywith[0]; } } else { $daywithpost = array(); }
 *  if (strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'MSIE') ||
    strstr(strtolower($_SERVER['
   HTTP_USER_AGENT']), 'camino') || strstr(strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']),'
   safari')) { $ak_title_separator = "n"; } else { $ak_title_separator = ', '; }
 *  $ak_titles_for_day = array();
    $ak_post_titles = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT 
   post_title, DAYOFMONTH(post_date) as dom " ."FROM $tableposts LEFT JOIN $tablepostmeta
   on ID=post_id " ."WHERE YEAR(post_date) = '$thisyear' " ."AND MONTH(post_date)
   = '$thismonth' " ."AND post_date < '".current_time('mysql')."' " ."AND post_status
   = 'publish' $addtoquery" ); if ($ak_post_titles) { foreach ($ak_post_titles as
   $ak_post_title) { if (empty($ak_titles_for_day['day_'.$ak_post_title->dom])) {
   $ak_titles_for_day['day_'.$ak_post_title->dom] = ''; } if (empty($ak_titles_for_day["
   $ak_post_title->dom"])) { // first one $ak_titles_for_day["$ak_post_title->dom"]
   = htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($ak_post_title->post_title)); } else { $ak_titles_for_day["
   $ak_post_title->dom"] .= $ak_title_separator . htmlspecialchars(stripslashes(
   $ak_post_title->post_title)); } } }
 *  // See how much we should pad in the beginning
    $pad = intval(date('w', $unixmonth));
   if (0 != $pad) echo "ntt".'<td colspan="'.$pad.'" class="pad">&nbsp;</td>';
 *  $daysinmonth = intval(date('t', $unixmonth));
    for ($day = 1; $day <= $daysinmonth;
   ++$day) { if (isset($newrow) && $newrow) echo "nt</tr>nt<tr>ntt"; $newrow = false;
 *  if ($day == gmdate('j', (time() + (get_settings('gmt_offset') * 3600))) && $
   thismonth == gmdate('m', time()+(get_settings('gmt_offset') * 3600)))
    echo '
   <td id="today">'; else echo '<td>';
 *  if (in_array($day, $daywithpost)) { // any posts today?
    echo '<a href="' . 
   get_day_link($thisyear, $thismonth, $day) . "\" title=\"$ak_titles_for_day[$day]\"
   >$day</a>"; } else { echo $day; } echo '</td>';
 *  if (6 == date('w', mktime(0, 0 , 0, $thismonth, $day, $thisyear)))
    $newrow 
   = true; }
 *  $pad = 7 - date('w', mktime(0, 0 , 0, $thismonth, $day, $thisyear));
    if ($pad!
   = 0 && $pad != 7) echo "ntt".'<td class="pad" colspan="'.$pad.'">&nbsp;</td>';
 *  echo "nt</tr>nt</tbody>nt</table>";
    }
 * ?>
 *  [theprog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theprog/)
 * (@theprog)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modify-viewlevel-plugin/#post-142213)
 * Well, that turned out worse than expected. bbPress dropped some character escapes
   and otherwise messed up formating. I’m able to post the file here for a few days
   until somebody else can pick up on development (fix the calender problem and 
   other bugs that I haven’t had to deal with yet.)
    [http://www.andrews.edu/~geoffrey/viewlevel.txt](http://www.andrews.edu/~geoffrey/viewlevel.txt)
 *  [scottish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottish/)
 * (@scottish)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modify-viewlevel-plugin/#post-142216)
 * Thanks for that, theprog, but is there a way to make it so that locked posts 
   are totally hidden? They still show the “You must be logged in to view this post”
   message.
 *  [kiwinessie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kiwinessie/)
 * (@kiwinessie)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modify-viewlevel-plugin/#post-142228)
 * I am amazed I can answer this one for Scottish.
 * Line 13 you need to change “$show_private_message=1” to “$show_private_message
   =0” as instructed in the file. The rest of it is mostly Greek to me 🙂
 *  [iddapidda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iddapidda/)
 * (@iddapidda)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modify-viewlevel-plugin/#post-142230)
 * You could also try looking at a new plugin, which can be found here: [http://fortes.com/projects/wordpress/postlevels](http://fortes.com/projects/wordpress/postlevels)
 *  [kiwinessie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kiwinessie/)
 * (@kiwinessie)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modify-viewlevel-plugin/#post-142240)
 * theprog,
 * I have ViewLevel working and I am thrilled. I have a slightly related question.
   ViewLevel seems to keep my private threads out of my RSS feed via FeedBurner 
   and BlogLines, but it still posts through to my Bloglet email digest because 
   Bloglet accesses [http://www.blognessie.com/xmlrpc.php](http://www.blognessie.com/xmlrpc.php)
   to work because of an invalid date issue Bloglet has with the RSS feed.
 * I probably need to start a new thread, but just thought I would ask here and 
   see if you had a “quick” answer.

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