I believe that only works for the admins. If you have subscribers, they still wouldn’t be able to see that post unless you gave them all the password.

On the Write Panel, you can password protect any blog post. It’s that easy, which is probably why you haven’t found a way since it’s kinda obvious to people. In WordPress 2.5, look in the sidebar panel on the Write Post Panel under the date and time and check the box that says Make this post private.

I believe there are some listed in this article. There are a few, but they all do a variety of things. You’ll have to try them to see which works best for your needs.

You use Conditional Tags in your WordPress Theme that says “if post is by author X, don’t display”. I don’t understand what you mean by “second page” of your site. You must be using a static front page and have a secondary page, emulating a magazine feel, which is cumbersome, but the above will work.

Using 2.3.1

Tried using a category plugin which allows only certain user levels to post to a specific category and another plugin that only allows a specific category to be posted to the frontpage.

But it seems all the plugins out there cause database errors with my site and don’t work.

Do you have any ideas how I can allow certain authors or certain roles under role manager to post only to the 2nd page of the site?

Thanks for your help.