A quick review of some recent changes.
- Better user administration. Admins can now promote/demote/delete users.
- Better topic and post adminstration. Moderators can now move topics from one forum to another, browse deleted topics and posts, and undelete.
- Views. The fully pluggable views functionality allows users with specified capabilities (see below) to browse customizable content. Native views allow anyone to browse by topics with no replies, unresolved topics, or untagged topics. There is also a view that allows moderators to browse all deleted topics (see above).
- Capabilities. bbPress has shifted from the hierarchical user_type permissions system to a generic role/capability model. The new system is much more flexible and makes it much easier to keep track of who can do what.
Is there a place to leave feature requests?
Can someone *PLEASE* tell me how to actually get a functioning administrator account working?!? And what page to invoke in order to administer anything… as far as I can tell, the instructions bug_id 95, which is the only thing that mentions that the install instructions are wrong, are obsolete, due to the introduction of bb_capabilities… or maybe not.
It is unclear what modifications to the string in bb_capabilities need to be made. … at the least, I would assume you would change the default “member” to “administrator”, but I have no idea what to change the numbers to.
According to bug_id 95, adding a “user_type” entry to the bb_metadata table for your userid with a meta_value of 5 should magically make you an administrator, and I assume (based on what I see in the code as being restricted by “current_user_can”) cause all sorts of features to suddenly appear or become accessible… but that doesn’t work.
Reading through upgrade.php and the bug reports, I also see that somehow user_type is supposed to be deleted… but since it didn’t exist, and I didn’t “upgrade”, that didn’t happen.
Let me know how to make all the good stuff mentioned on this blog happen, please?