[wp-hackers] Enhance WP to use page categories

[Chris]

Hi Mark,
thanks for reply!
re category counts - yes, looks like would affect those but they could 
be excluded fairly easily I guess.
I have since looked at a plug-in released recently called 
"wp-group-restriction".
Allows hierarchy etc. for Pages.
Only a beta version, with a few buggy bits but I think has (from looking 
at the db and php code) couple of disadvantages,
namely relies on FKey relationships and sub-queries, so InnoDB and MySQL 
later versions - rest of wp code looks like wpress are trying to keep it 
generic ( i.e for MyISAM and lower versions of MySQL too).

What is the WordPress "view" on versions of (A)MP?

Thanks again
Chris
P.S. for my current site I have simply constructed a page hierarchy to 
suit, plus a bit of php code to check login status and show parts of the 
tree for visitors/members (i.e. logged in or not).

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Mark Jaquith wrote:
> On Jan 21, 2007, at 9:12 AM, Chris wrote:
>
>> However, it does not seem possible to categorize pages so that there 
>> is a "public view" accessible to all, and a "members" view, which 
>> might include the public view, but also show more restricted pages.
>
> The only thing that I can think is that this will mess up the category 
> post counts, although there might be other side effects.  One other 
> way to do this would be via Custom Fields (i.e. the $wpdb->postmeta 
> table).  This would allow you to set flags on the pages that determine 
> private/public status.  You could have this assigned automatically if 
> a page is a child of a "private" ultimate parent page (just use 
> get_page() and crawl up the $page->post_parent ladder until you reach 
> the top and then do an ID comparison).  this might end up being more 
> future proof.
>
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