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Automatic Vip Blog Transformation

Have you a system for automatic vip blog transformation?

Sun, 8 Mar 2009 16:45:55
  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Depends on what you mean by ‘automatic’ and ‘transformation’? What are you judging on? What determines if a blog gets or needs to be raised to VIP status? What do you define as VIP? What benefits do VIP blogs get that regular blogs (or even supporter ones) don’t get?

    Of the few setups that we have that have some sort of ‘high status’ blogs, I believe all of them are manually done. I even think the wp.com ones are as well since they appear to have sales people (ie Matt and Toni) who are making and setting those up.

    Do also remember that setting up VIP blogs can also set you up for backlash from your bloggers who don’t get VIP status and feel that they deserve it. Heck, even Top Blogs will get you such backlash if it’s the same ones over and over again.

  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops

    The trick is that you’d need to come up with a script that moves the blog tables to the VIP database. Unfortunately that’s something we won’t be publicly providing as there’s plenty of room for a simple code bug to cause major issues.

    Also, while placing a blog in in a vip database is a great selling point, it’s really not worth the hassle 90% of the time.

    Thanks,

    Andrew

  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    while placing a blog in in a vip database is a great selling point

    Really? I would think that would only be of interest to other… um, internet specialists who take interest in stuff like that.

    Better support would also be a plus I would think. Give those folks your own email address and/or cell or telephone number. If your support ticket system supports it, flag those accounts for higher level of support. Maybe set up a special subforum in your support forum for them to ask questions in. (Gotta admit that the last one isn’t a good idea to me but it works for some.)

  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops

    Hiya,

    1) Go to the database containing the blog

    2) Go to the ‘export’ tab

    3) Select the blog tables – You can either save it as a file or view it in the browser so you can just copy/paste

    4) Go to the vip database

    5) If you saved the sql as a file then go to the ‘import’ tab

    6) If you just copied the sql from the textbox then go to the ‘sql’ tab

    This is just a really basic overview. There are tons of sites out there offering PHPMyAdmin tutorials.

    Thanks,

    Andrew