True registrations or just comments?
True registrations or just comments?
Really, must you ask such loaded questions?!
Seriously, I have an open mind. I’ve read the pros and cons of Intense Debate, Disqus, and Livefyre, as well as a blog entry about the virtues of the core WP comment system.
The only thing I think I’ve decided is that initial registrations gets you subscriber role. Subscribers can then register their own blog. It just seems to me that the double opt-in will reduce spam at least a little bit.
I’d like to have commenter ranking/trust features like the plugins, but can do without while I see if the site is viable as a self-sustaining entity. I’d REALLY like a user rating plugin that would require someone to reach a certain level before they’re invited to create their own site, but I’m likely to have to write that one myself someday.
The operative criteria are that I’m a solitary old Geezer with no budget and no staff. I need to be able to moderate the thing on my own as it grows enough to support a worker bee or two.
Heh. Sorry. Part of being able to help folks is making sure I understand the question…
So… Okay. In GENERAL, if people only need to comment, then Intense Debate, Disqus, and Livefyre AND Jetpack’s comment system are all a really great thing, because it puts the weight of the integration off your hands. They let people comment via social media, and you go to the races. Yay!
But. If people need to register for accounts on a Multisite, then you have to consider what that means. What do they need their accounts for? Are there features only logged in users can use? Or are you just trying to use accounts to ‘maintain’ accountability, as it were? Also who are your users? Will having one more place to have an account be a help or a hinderance?
Now, I’m going to assume you’ve already thought it through and know that for <whatever> reason, users MUST have an account. The best plugin I know of for that is this: http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-social-login/
That said? NO idea if it’s MultiSitable 🙁 But given their standing and work, I bet they’d be the ones who could make it happen.
I’ve looked at this one before. If only it could be piggybacked onto Theme My Login. Does Mr. Farthing know Miled?
As for Multisitable (great term!) the only clue is a diagnostic sent to them with support requests includes the value of is_multisite(). Switch_to_blog is nowhere in the source code.
Really I plan four levels of user:
Readers – No account needed
Subscribers – Must be logged in to rate and comment
Contributors – Authors
Premium Contributors – upgrades like domain mapping, extra storage, etc.
Subscribers are read-only, except for commenting and doing ratings, so social logins would be more than adequate.
Contributors would need a more robust registration obviously both to maintain accountability and to be the platform for premium features.
*headscracth* So … what part of this requires Multisite then?
Just people who get their own sites? Because it you’re making contributors ‘own’ a site where they can only write, it’s gonna be a PITA.
>>> contributors ‘own’ a site where they can only write, it’s gonna be a PITA.
No, ma’am, I suppose a contributor would equate to administrator in the normal WP nomenclature.
They would be able to upgrade to have premium features. Whatever the technical arraingements, those are the folks I called Premium Contributors.
In your WordPress Multisite 110 ebook (I definately owe you a contribution for that one! Mucho worth_it!) you have a chapter about restrictive sites, do’s and don’t’s. I plan to be restrictive even a little above and beyond some of the techniques metioned there.
Perhaps I’m being overcautious and paranoid, but if you’re going to have a baby you should childproof your home. If you’re going to attempt a political blog based on enforcing the basic rules of civil discourse, you should learn to herd cats.
