[wp-hackers] Shared Users Table

[Eric Marden]

All the blogs are new and up to date. I'm using the CUSTOM_USER_TABLE  
&& CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE constants to point to the right tables. So  
that much is working. However when users register to comment... I  
have to manually give them subscriber role on all the other blogs.  
Its this last part I'd like to 'fix'. Giving everyone subscriber role  
on all blogs.... and do it in a way that doesn't keep me from  
upgrading wordpress when updates arrive.

-e


On Mar 1, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Charles E. Frees-Melvin wrote:

> For this to work all the blogs need to be wp 2.3.2 or earlier. for  
> 2.5 you
> will need the secret key the same on all of them and all blogs  
> would need to
> be update simultaniusly or passwords will be messed up after the  
> first user
> uses a 2.5 site, then tries to enter a 2.3 site.
>
> On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Aaron Brazell  
> <emmensetech at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
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