misterbrandt

Voodoo – thanks for prodding me in the direction or doing it from scratct, rather than trying to figure out which global variables weren’t available yet, and tracking those dependencies though everything.

In the end, I was able to use get_userdatabylogin() to get a copy of the user object, and then I wrote a custom version of current_user_can() that uses get_option() to pull the roles and capabilities out of the db directly. For anyone else’s future reference, this is how I did it:

function elbe_zp_login( $user_login ) {
$user = get_userdatabylogin($user_login);
if (elbe_current_user_can('publish_posts', $user)) {
elbe_zp_login_user();
} else {
// echo "current user cannot publish posts...";
}
} // end function



function elbe_current_user_can($capability, $current_user) {
//
$roles = get_option('wp_user_roles');
$user_roles = $current_user->wp_capabilities;
$user_roles = array_keys($user_roles, true);
$role = $user_roles[0];
$capabilities = $roles[$role]['capabilities'];
if ( in_array( $capability, array_keys( $capabilities, true) ) ) {
// check array keys of capabilities for match against requested capability
return true;
}
} // end function


I just figured out a fix/hack for showing comments on the front page:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/32818#post-218249

I just figured out a fix/hack for showing comments on the front page in WP 1.5:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/32818#post-218249

Of course, as soon as I post here, I figured out a hack. I am still open to hearing a less hacky soution from someone though.

I used Eric Meyer’s “MW Comments/Trackbacks” plugin [1] to get acces to the mw_comments() function, which I used to populate the $comments global variable that comments.php pulls from.

Example from my theme’s index.php:

<div class="entrytext">
<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this entry »'); ?>
<?php
$comments = mw_comments();
include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/comments.php'); // Display comments
?>
</div>


[1] https://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/wordpress/mw_comments_trackbacks.html

Hopefully this is clear and stops others from tearing their hair out as badly as i have been doing for the last few days.

*bump*.
Me too. All the 1.2 instructions do not seem to work for 1.5.