Is WordPress the solution for me?
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Hi,
I have zero experience with WP and I need help determining whether WP is the solution I’m looking for. Please help!I’m looking for a platform/environment that would provide the following:
1) Major part of the content should be available to a group of registered users only, with just a few public posts.
2) Registered users should be able to comment on the posts.
3) Admin should be able to define whether registered users can or can not create new posts.
4) User creating new post should be able to define availability of comments for their posts and a group of users who would see the post.
5) Sub-grouping (by admin) of the Registered users must be available.
6) Environment should support sub-categories (sub-areas) which will be available to the defined sub-groups of the registered users only.
7) Posts should allow HTML tags OR environment must provide additional repository for HTML pages.
8) Environment should provide photo gallery functionality with multiple album/folder availability and storage space.
9) Access to the photo gallery albums/folders should be manageable – admin should be able to define which sub-group of registered users has access to which album/folder.
10) Free or cheap (project is non-profit).Nice to have:
11) Posting should be as easy as possible.
12) Multiple admin accounts.So, can WordPress platform provide all of this?
Thanks very much to all who responds!!!
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WordPress.COM isn’t for you. In fact, you had better research the plugins at wordpress.ORG thoroughly as some of what you want may require custom programming. There are some membership plugins that are available, but most of them to get the level of access control you want require you to pay for the “premium” version. I’ve seen prices as high as $450 per year for the subscription to the premium versions.
HTML pages really don’t work in wordpress as it is written with PHP script, not HTML. I suppose you could put the plain HTML pages in a subdirectory or subfolder on the site.
You are heading dangerously close to needing something like Joomla or Drupal it sounds like to me, and although Joomla is reasonably easy to manage, Drupal has a steep learning curve and there are many pitfalls with it.
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http://wordpress.org is where you need to start doing your research and then move up from there.
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I know for a fact that Drupal can do this since I manage a site where something very similar takes place (not active yet, but within a month it will be – tested and works).
I’ve never tried it in Joomla, but I’m sure there are probably enough components and modules around to do it.
With wordpress.ORG, I’ve just never done the research. I did a membership site on WordPress, but it has been so long ago I can’t remember if how much flexibility the “premium” plugin has (they never activated the members only area). WordPress would be ideal if you can round up the plugins since the backend is so friendly compared with Joomla and Drupal (Drupal is the quintessential example of bad UI design).
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It sounds to me that the wordpress based BuddyPress might be more suitable than WordPress.org. see
(I have never used it but it looks like it has rich group features)
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Yes, Buddypress is really quite impressive. I’ve got a BP account, although I never managed to persuade the clients I wanted to get on it to do so.
Drupal can do almost anything, but the user interface is almost C-prompt-level primitive and unwelcoming.
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