Lock Posts

This plugin allows Super Admin users to lock down posts on any site so that regular ol’ users just can’t edit them – for example, with a school assignment – stop it from being edited after submission.

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Screenshots

Locking and unlocking at post as a site admin user to change whether a blog user can or can't edit a published post
View of Edit Post page where it shows the lock status of a post
Message seen if a normal blog user tries to edit a locked post
Detail

This is a kinda neat plugin that allows super admin users to ‘lock’ or ‘fix’ posts so that they are unable to be edited by the users of that blog – even the administrators!

Purpose is so that regular ol’ users just can’t edit them – for example, with a school assignment – stop it from being edited after submission.

It’s really pretty simple – underneath each post or page Super admin users see a ‘Post Status’ bar – using this they can then change the status of the post to locked, or back to unlocked if it has previously been locked.

In Posts > Edit Locked will be displayed under Lock Status for any posts that have been locked by a super admin.

When user goes to edit a locked post, they are shown a simple message telling them that the post has been locked by a super admin.

Enjoy the power :)

Usage

To install:

  1. Download the plugin file
  2. Unzip the file into a folder on your hard drive
  3. Upload /lock-posts/ folder to /wp-content/plugins/ folder on your site
  4. Visit Network Admin -> Plugins and Network Activate it there.

Note: If you have an older version of the plugin installed in /mu-plugins/ please delete it.

  • That’s it! No configuration necessary!

To use:

    1. Log in as Super admin user.
    2. Go to the post you want to lock and click on ‘Edit’ ( Posts > Edit )
    3. Scroll down to Post Status area and select Locked

  1. Click Update Post

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