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  • Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: WordPress as a CMS

    Hm. Pages is cute and simple but its too cute and simple. A flat file DB isn’t a dealbreaker, but I like relational DBs. And it’s only single user. Which is fine for a personal website, but not quite for an archive.
    When I was looking for a replacement for Automated Archive the features most important to me were multiple users who can self register. I tried looking at CMS systems at Opensource CMS but I couldn’t find one that supported multiple categories/subcategories.
    So far WP is the closest to what I need. I wish there were pages that listed all authors and profiled each individual author and an advanced search. But those aren’t impossible hacks.

    I don’t really care about the CSS since I can change it to whatever I want. I hacked out the li tags from wp-includes/template-functions-category.php however, they do make sense.
    But I would like to put a voice in for less javascript. So far as I’ve used it, the site works without javascript but, it is in WP. On a given month, about around 5% (give or take a few points) of my visitors don’t have javascript. Only a handful of people are using PDAs and cell phones, but more people are turning javascript off in their web browsers.

    Thread Starter cra

    (@cra)

    Something I started planning but haven’t started mucking around with (I wish I didn’t have midterms coming up) but I wondered if a BB and WP could use the same login table. phpBB and WP already have a few columns in common — some columns share the same data and name, others share the same data but have different names.
    So then (specific to phpBB): phpBB’s login table could be modified to have WP specific columns added and WP could be modded to use phpBB’s login table and also to reflect the new data column name changes. Is possible, I hope?

    Forum: Plugins
    In reply to: AutoUpdate LiveJournal Hack

    I haven’t looked at the code for the hack yet but from LJ: https://www.livejournal.com/manage/emailpost.bml?mode=help
    —-
    Journal entry security
    Security options are set via the lj-header “lj-security”. If the security type specified is unknown, the journal entry defaults to private. If no security is specified, the entry is posted according to your default journal security.
    lj-security: public
    lj-security: private
    lj-security: friends
    lj-security: friendgroup
    —-
    As for formatting, I found this url: https://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_userdoc/337025.html and it suggests to use <lj-raw>your post here</lj-raw>

    Thread Starter cra

    (@cra)

    Oooh. This fits my needs. Thanks.

    I was about to ask for multiple time zones for blogs with many registered users — each user being able to specify their time zone. But I don’t think I will.
    Or, I suppose I could set the blog’s to reflect GMT and leave it at that and erase confusion that way (because really, some people don’t bother to look at the three letter time zone acronym that comes with a time post).
    Plus, wouldn’t coding for daylight savings time get tricky?

    Hey, rob? Can you post the source to the multiple blog hack? It’s something I’d be interested in.

    Thread Starter cra

    (@cra)

    I don’t think so. Even if a cookie had someone’s login info for the WP portion of the site, what if they don’t have an account to the phpBB side?
    What I’d like to do is add code so that if new visitors register or edit their profile in one section of the site, the other section will be updated — a change in the WP user table would also mean a change in the phpBB user table, and vice versa.
    As I see it, they can’t share the same login table since they use data structures. Anyways, I think it’d be easy to add code to WP’s wp-register.php and profile page so that the phpBB user table would be updated. Or if this can be done through the my-hacks.php file, let me know. I’m a little unclear on how to use this file.
    Changing phpBB’s profile.php page though looks a bit more complicated but I should go to the phpBB’s boards for that. Or I could look at Invision board code.

    Thread Starter cra

    (@cra)

    Oh cool! Thanks. ??

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