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Tweaks for WordPress Subscribers

30th December 2008

I’m currently building a WordPress site where I want people to be able to sign up as Subscribers. They won’t have the option to write anything to the site, so they won’t be Authors or Editors—Subscribers seems appropriate.

I’ve ended up having to tweak WordPress in several ways to make the system work as I want. At the moment I’m erring on the side of coding minor adjustments into my custom themes. Plugins are more flexible, but if you just need to change a small thing, coding it into the theme leaves your site with less overhead from another plugin being loaded.

So, here are a few little plugin-free techniques for tweaking you WP Subscriber system.

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Multi-WordPress: Not as easy as it seemed

14th December 2008

multiple-wordpressI’ve deleted the previous post that I just did about running multiple WordPress installations from the same set of core files. Seems it’s a little trickier to get what I wanted than I first thought.

If you’re still wanting to plug away at solving this, multipleblogsonasinglewordpressinstallation.com is still very useful. But also check out Ryan McDonnell’s post on the same subject, and read the comments.

In my now abandoned post, I did neglect the fact that WordPress was including files based on the ABSPATH constant in my wp-config.php, which I thought I could keep in one place with a switch/case for database settings. Big mistake!

But, there were other issues too for me. So, given that 2.7 has auto-upgrade built-in, I’m making the decision to go and fry bigger fish. I might revisit this; if you’re trying, good luck!

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