jpasden

Squish,

Right… but the question is, where exactly?

Step 1: Modify your theme so that whether you are logged in or not, you get the input fields for all users to identify themselves.

Would that be a modification to comments.php?

Step 2: Change comments-post.php so that where it says
// If the user is logged in, it doesn’t populate $comment_author, $comment_author_email and $comment_author_url – best thing to do is just comment out those three lines.

Sounds easy enough.

Thanks again!

squish,

Thanks, that’s one I hadn’t found. It does seem to be closer to what I want than ViewLevel. Categories are not very essential to the blog I’m working on, so I could even use categories exclusively to control who sees what content.

I’m not really clear on what Usermeta does or how it ties in, though.

The one issue I see is that to make this work, I would have to give an account to each of my readers that needs special access, wouldn’t I? Again, I’d like to have just two shared accounts: one for friends, one for family. Seems to me that WordPress could be hacked so that the logged-in user info isn’t passed onto the comment form, allowing logged in users to identify themselves when they leave comments despite being logged in. Any tips on accomplishing that?

I really appreciate the response.

In case anyone is interested, I finally figured out the problem. The import.txt file was too big. No error mesages at all were given, however. The import script just quit.

I managed to import my MT entries by breaking import.txt into chunks. I started with one entry, and imported successively larger chunks. I reached the size limit with the largest chunk the end; it looks like I can’t import files bigger than about 600-800k on my server.

I hope this helps someone.

I am having the exact same problem that JustDee described. Nothing happens in Mozilla, “Page Cannot Be Displayed” in IE. My import.txt is 4.1 MB.

Please help! I have spent hours customizing my new WP templates, only to be thwarted at the import…