No: non esiste una demo, ma se mi spiegate quello che volete fare vi dico se Simple ACL vi può essere utile o meno.

No: la limitazione è su intere sezioni e non su singoli articoli (ammesso che con “pagine” intendeste dire articoli)

@Anders:

No sorry, I’m not aware of any WP plugin for ACLs.

Vorrei sapere anche se è possibile limitare l’accesso ad alcune pagine in base alla tipologia utente?

Grazie

I bought Simple ALC some years ago, and im very pleased with the product and your support level.

Now im going to build a website in Wordpress, and need the same features as Simple ALC provides for Joomla.

Do you know of such a plugin, or can Simple ALC manage the task?

I know its a bit offtopic, but googling it didn’t help me.

Thanks.

At any rate, I am lost when it comes to making a donation. I’ll just buy one for a stranger and give a hearty “Cheers” to Alessandro Pasotti. Thank you for your work.

Cordially,
John Harper

thank you for your wise words.

I’m surprised: I’m working with and on open source project since 10 years now, and you are the first willing to donate something. But I fully agree with you and I myself make yearly donations of part of my money to other open source projects I use (QGSIs, Docman, JCE… to cite a few).

If you are really willing to offer me a beer you can click on the [Buy now] button at the top of this page, copy the email address of my paypal account and just make a new paypal donation to that address, you choose the amount.

Thanks.

Cordially,
John Harper

However, I do want to make a small donation just because I don’t believe in something for nothing – it always turns into nothing for something right there at the end. You guys have a cold beer on me!

Cordially,
John Harper

good questions!

First, I would say that Simple ACL was not buld with military grade security in mind, nor was Joomla itself.

Restricted sections cannot be “public” (in Joomla level sense), so search engines will not see them.

Knowing the URL will not be sufficient to access a denied sections but knowing the URL of an image or a file attachment will permit access to that image or attachment (this is obvious, since an image or attachment can be attached to many articles or sections or categories).

What about users know the exact URL of the restricted Section? For example, someone who was once allowed but is now unwelcome.

My more general question is how secure is ACL? Can I feel confident putting sensitive material behind it or should I always assume everything on the internet is really public?

Cordially,
John Harper

I would say yes, but it depends on several conditions:

* the menu item must point to a section (or a category or an article belonging to a section) which is not public
* your template does not override menu component/module in strange ways (very unlikely, but must be remarked)
* the user has ACL “access read” granted for that section
* there is an ACL rule that denies access to that section for other users (otherwise everybody will see the menu)

The last is the tricky point: you can choose to deny access to all sections by default and grant individual access rights or you can play with joomla roles (i.e. create and ACL for “Authors” or for “Editors”). Or you can do the other way round: grant all to everybody and deny to selected users/sections.

Simple ACL is simple to use and very flexyble, but ACLs configurations are often a very complicated beast, virtually everybody needs a different configuration.

Also keep in mind that Simple ACL will not be able to hide the menu module (the menu item container) but it will only hide the individual menu items (this is seldom a problem, just use a module with hidden title).