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[Fred Stutzman <fred AT metalab.unc.edu>]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, David R. Woolley wrote:

> I would like admins of individual blogs on our Lyceum site to be able to 
> control who can view certain posts and pages in the blog. I've found several 
> WordPress plugins that address this issue in various ways. I'm looking, for 
> example, at "ViewLevel":  http://blog.firetree.net/2005/08/25/viewlevel-20/
>
> But this raises a question about compatibility with Lyceum. In the WordPress 
> docs, I see that the wp_users table has a "user_level" field, which I presume 
> corresponds to the User Level that's described here: 
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#User_Level_to_Role_Conversion 
> But how are user records handled in Lyceum? Since a given user can be an 
> admin in one blog but have no privileges in another blog, does Lyceum create 
> a separate user record for every blog for a given user?

Hi David, and JJB or Jameson can correct me if I am wrong, but I don't 
believe Lyceum creates a separate user record for each blog.  The user 
record is unary and maintains levels and blog_id's.  Therefore, I think 
that a viewlevel plugin would work, as it would be applied on a 
blog-by-blog basis, interacting with the standard user table.

> And will a plugin like ViewLevel work with Lyceum or will it require hacking? 
> For that matter, I'm not even sure if this plugin works with WP2.0, since its 
> documentation refers only to WP1.5.

It may need hacking...I am not sure.


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