scriptygoddess

1 | Carla

October 7th, 2004 at 12:53 pm

I use Skippy's user level hack on one of my blogs and I am REALLY happy with it. I tried the plugin but I couldn't get it to work. The user level hack is amazing. Why MT doesn't have something like it, I don't know….

2 | skippy

October 7th, 2004 at 1:06 pm

As the author of the mod, I'd like to point out the fundamental difference between the plugin and my mod.

The plugin filters posts to display after they've been pulled from the database, whereas my mod changes the SQL query to prevent restricted posts from even being returned by the database. I've always been told to pull from the database only what you're going to use, so I wrote my mod to make sure that only the posts that the reader ought to see are ever pulled.

The difference is subtle, and probably even negligent for most people. But for a very busy site, or a site with a lot of restricted posts, (and possibly for a site running on less powerful hardware) my mod should provide better long-term performance.