[bbDev] setting admin user

[Thomas Leavitt]

On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 11:36 -0700, Michael D Adams wrote:
> On Aug 21, 2005, at 3:03 AM, Thomas Leavitt wrote:
> > Now, am I still limited to directly editing the database to create new
> > forums? Don't see an interface that will permit this otherwise.
> 
> There was a typo.  The install script made you an "administrator"  
> rather than a "keymaster".  You'll have to edit your DB directly to  
> fix it.  Go to your usermeta table and replace the value that looks  
> like:
> 
> a:1:{s:13:"administrator";b:1;}
> 
> with the following:
> 
> a:1:{s:9:"keymaster";b:1;}

Done. Cool. Works.


> > Also, having upgraded through an ungodly number of WordPress  
> > variations
> > dating back to b2, I'd say a critical architectural issue would be to
> > create some way of cleaning separating content and code, such that she
> > doesn't have to essentially redo all her work every time a new version
> > comes out.
> >
> > Also, it would be nice if you could avoid drastically changing things
> > from version to version such that it takes significant amounts of time
> > and energy to figure out where the user interface/presentation  
> > needs to
> > be altered in order to do it.
> 
> There is no "version" of bbPress at the moment, just revisions and  
> nightlies.  Things WILL change.  Possibly drastically before the  
> first real release.

I'm just trying to make this point early on in the process, as someone
who has deployed a similar product in a wide variety of environments,
and whose wife/business partner gives me annoyed looks every time I
mention that the software has been upgraded. This issue is a real
disincentive to deployment. I'm simply saying that it would be nice if
there was a way to avoid this or minimize the impact on users deploying
the code - once the product reaches production standards. Obviously, a
product that is still in alpha will change drastically, I'm well aware
of that.

> 
> > Also, it would be cool if, again, there was a way to have a single
> > version of the bbPress code that front ends to different user
> > interfaces, and backends to different databases... it is a huge
> > maintenance nightmare to have twenty different pieces of the same  
> > set of
> > code, in varying versions, scattered across as many different sites,
> > some of them under my control, and some of them on our web
> > design/hosting client's sites.
> 
> That... might be possible.  It's a ways off if it is, though.  Not  
> even a 1.0 thing.

Check out b2-evolution:

http://b2evolution.net/

Multiple blogs. 

If you want 2, 3 or 100 different blogs/newsfeeds on your site, no need
to install the software several times. You can display each blog on its
own page, or even display several blogs on the same page. For example,
as a sidebar to a main blog, you could display a sub-blog to act as a
photblog, a moblog, a linkblog or a blogroll.

> 
> Michael
> 
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