Great Dave! I can work my way through making a plugin to do 1 and 3. Sounds like you have a plan for 2.

Thanks!

I see where to edit engine/lib/access.php

What I can't get is the start.php for the plugin. Not sure what to hook into.

<?php

 

function nopublic_init() {

 

// Extend system CSS with our own styles

 

extend_view('css','nopublic/css');

 

 

register_plugin_hook('access','all','new_access');

 }

 

function new_access() {

 

    if (!@include_once(dirname(dirname(__FILE__))) . "/nopublic/access.php") return false;

    

   return true;

}

 

// Make sure the plugin has been registered

register_elgg_event_handler('init','system','nopublic_init');

?>

Diego pointed to a clever way to do much of this using the views system: http://community.elgg.org/pg/pages/view/4834/

Unfortunately, it is not bulletproof and I need to have it bulletproof as I see access levels being changed by users as the move from private drafts.

I hope to offer a k12 plugin for educators Nov 23, so others can jump into using Elgg for schools.

Well, I just got it to work and have created a plugin that removes "public" as an option when creating content. Next step is to disable rss feeds.

I'll put out the plugin shortly!

Steve

I combined this with the Walled Garden plugin. It removes the public option for access and the RSS/OpenDD options on the owner's block. I called it Higher Walls.