gspark

It’s all good :), you are right adv users don’t care about funkyness, they like things complicated, makes them feel geeky, you go right along thinking that it wouldn’t make a difference and while the end users are struggling through the file system, beating their heads on the walls then eventually leaving wp to find another friendly solution, you keep on thinking everything is peachy, this is not just about files, – end discussion

Also, phpbb3 is about as weak a forum software package as can be found. It is feature deficient and is riddled with security breaches.

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Surely, you must be joking, phpbb3 is far better forum then smf, both in features, functions, security and easy to use, i hate smf and all its proprietary funky code in the pages,
The latest phpbb3 may lack some things only because the phpbb2 features have not yet been updated, but out of the box phbb3 is the baddest forum around (barnone). I guess that’s the reason it’s the most used forum on the internet, you think ? ??

get yourself A CMS, it have multiple logins

wordpress has very limited capability confined to only personal blogging

If you want something that can do the job you want a CMS

is_user_logged_in()

is not very specfic how about an example on how to use it ??

I’ll be damned, since i switched back to php4 it works, i was using php5 seems a few things flake when using php5, thought most people are using php5 these days

ha ha you serious ? just kidding :))

some will tell you wp is a personal blogging software and it sure acts that way, it’s no where near a CMS, however you can fake it to some degree.

Some of the items you mentioned WP can not do unfortunately, but search through the forum you’ll find creative ways to hack the job done.

hidethis plugin download link doesn’t work goes to an error page

and plugin restriction doesn’t work with the lastest wp version

slapping some code like this

if ( $user_ID ) {
// user is logged in
}
else {
// user is not logged in
}

into a post doesn’t tell anything on how to use it, keep in mind wp end users are for the most part non-programmers

to assume everyone knows what that code is and how to use it is nothing short of an insult

This meta tag is not in the theme directory header, that’s why I was asking it’s the one WP produces when you choose to open/close blog to search engines

wow i didn’t understand a word you said :))

what’s a hook ? and what’s a conditional ?

your’re speaking to a non-programer who only understands apples and oranges

Yep I agree this should be part of the core, there’s only one plugin that is suppose to restrict pages but it doesn’t work with the latest WP when i remember the url i’ll paste it here

how about phpbb3 ?

well there wouldn’t be any problems if everyone had a clean set of normal looking files, forget about developers they should be creating for the end user (non-developer) the novices will one day inherit the earth didn’t you know that ? :))

let’s just say for the sake of it, that some might find wp- on every file useful for whatever purpose it may be, they would not represent the majority of end users therefore it would not be justified to have the files that way.

It might be true that some end users don’t care, that is until their plugin breaks and it will and they have to go through a boat load of wp-files, personally i don’t like the extensions so i purge all folders and files of it and now I can wiz through my search more easily. We all know the real reason wp- is added (so lets not kid anyone ??

If WP took a vote, i’m betting many would prefer just standarized file naming

One huge disadvantage with WP is you don’t have absolute control over your site without the user of many plugins and if you do then you are a programmer who understands how to code, from a design perspective it’s not friendly at all.

Some things that come to mine – user-based permissions, login setup, usergroups, protected areas, templatels, static pages, as many have stated here WP is blogging software not content management (CMS), you can only go so far as to create a very basic website using WP, however if you wanted to customize it further, you’ll run into many roadblocks as I am finding. simple things that are often default in CMS are not part of WP core so you’ll need to search for alternative plugins that can do the job.

I am still working on getting WP to behave as a CMS, faking it isn’t too hard but like i said if you want to have more than just a basic site it may take some hair pulling.

I like the way phpbb does it, they have tags you can use to make so only admins or logged on users can see things, I don’t think WP has such a thing

couldn’t you just change the get-header to get-header2 ? i remember doing this before and it seemed to work was along time ago