Here's what I was trying to achieve:
A workflow that allowed authors & editors to check the post status as it goes through the writing and review process. BUT I only want reviewers to be able to see the post, not make any changes. Ideally by giving them a URL.
Here's what happened:
By enabling the edit flow post statuses, the post becomes private and therefore the URL only works for people who are logged in with sufficient privileges (author, editor, etc). I didn't want to have to give reviewers that level of power over a post.
I wasn't able to achieve what I had wanted, but I have been able to set up a system that allows me to give time-limited editing access to a user to a specific post, which is not ideal, but better than nothing. To do this I installed 2 plugins:
User Role Editor
Role Scoper
User Role Editor allowed me to create a new Wordpress Role, "Reviewer". This was supposed to let me assign the ability to "read private posts" but this doesn't seem to actually work.
I then was able to use Role Scoper to give anyone with "Reviewer" status the ability to edit a specific post for a certain amount of time.
The workflow is a bit clumsy, but it doesn't seem possible to use Edit Flow with logged-out reviewers. Any thoughts on improving this are much appreciated and I'm happy to dismantle if a better solution is found.
Here's what I was trying to achieve:
A workflow that allowed authors & editors to check the post status as it goes through the writing and review process. BUT I only want reviewers to be able to see the post, not make any changes. Ideally by giving them a URL.
Here's what happened:
By enabling the edit flow post statuses, the post becomes private and therefore the URL only works for people who are logged in with sufficient privileges (author, editor, etc). I didn't want to have to give reviewers that level of power over a post.
I wasn't able to achieve what I had wanted, but I have been able to set up a system that allows me to give time-limited editing access to a user to a specific post, which is not ideal, but better than nothing. To do this I installed 2 plugins:
User Role Editor
Role Scoper
User Role Editor allowed me to create a new Wordpress Role, "Reviewer". This was supposed to let me assign the ability to "read private posts" but this doesn't seem to actually work.
I then was able to use Role Scoper to give anyone with "Reviewer" status the ability to edit a specific post for a certain amount of time.
The workflow is a bit clumsy, but it doesn't seem possible to use Edit Flow with logged-out reviewers. Any thoughts on improving this are much appreciated and I'm happy to dismantle if a better solution is found.