[wp-hackers] Shared Users Table

[Aaron Brazell]

I'm hesitant to give intelligence to another blog network. ;-)
That said, what's good for the WP community is good for us too. We have a
different approach than you, as well as WordPRess.com. WP.com takes the MU
approach. You take the CUSTOM_USER_TABLE approach where we have hundreds of
single WP installs - actually I see this being a problem at some point but
it is what it is.

Without any real experience with using CUSTOM_USER_TABLE, I'd say make sure
you are sharing CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE as well - that's where your
capabilities/roles are stored.



On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Eric Marden <wp at xentek.net> wrote:

> I have a new blog network that is preparing to launch, and since the
> number of blogs is relatively low, I decided to go with the shared
> users table approach as opposed to using WP-MU.
>
> My Question is this... what's the best way to get users who register
> to have a default role of 'subscriber' across all blogs. If they
> register on one, they are in the table, seen by the other blogs, but
> have a 'no role on this blog' permission. I'd like them to be set as
> subscriber automatically.
>
> Any help on formulating an approach to this would be great. Any
> solution I come up with will be shared freely with the WP community....
>
> Alternatively, if I can get some idea on how the permissions are
> stored in the usermeta table (particularly the capabilities key) I
> can probably come up with a solution on my own. Again, any insight
> you can give me will be helpful.
>
> I anxiously await your response.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -e
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