dss

I think it’s really a matter of wanting some separation.

A method of requiring loginin/registration to comment
[though it’s true, having the ability to change your password is important]
and a manual promotion to allow access to even see that there is a wp-admin area open WP up for further and future use as cms, magazine and group type sites.

I’ve been thinking outside the blog a lot lately and looking at CMS applications and kinda tasting the mayonaise. Just not into them. WordPress can do everything I want to do, until I need the users to register (for legal, privacy or preference reasons) and then I feel that showing the back end, in any way, to stangers, outsiders, people who are customers, or just participants is in some way degrading to the integrity of a site.

So I still think that a different approach to level 0 registration/ login purely for the purposes of commenting should not allow any access to the wp-admin area, or only allow a visible profile page, and nothing else.

I wonder if it’s possible to show different content (menu and page data) based on user level:

if user_level(0); {
get_header
get_footer
}

elseif user_level(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10); {
display wp-admin pages
}

something like that?