Protected blog postings?

[rosslaird]

Thanks for creating this. It works nicely. How difficult would it be to extend this to offer protected blog postings as well? That would be very useful indeed (for me).

I already have an app that allows a blog author to specify that login is required to view a given post, but it would be great to extend this to limit viewing to a given group.

[evilchili]

Hi Ross, glad you find it useful! Your own tutorials were helpful in getting up to speed with mezzanine.

Hrm. My current approach is to create a new content type by subclassing Page. I could easily do this for BlogPosts, but I think that would create two streams of posts that wouldn't be integrated. I will need to do some digging into the blog views and templates to see what the impact would be.

A cleaner solution might be to extend the model of the BlogPost class directly, but I would prefer to keep my changes out of the mezzanine core for now.

[rosslaird]

Those tutorials sure have been (unintentionally) popular!

Thanks for considering the blog post option. Let me know if you decide to move forward on this, and if I can help in any way.

[innomadic]

Any more thoughts about this?