Using wordpress in my company

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  jhonyleroy · Member · Jun 5, 2008 at 9:46 pm

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  Hello there!

  I am a user of wordpress and I would like to understand if wordpress as a company can provide blogs to companies meaning that the blogs are paid to wordpress as a service ad the blogs created by the company are only accesible by other members of the company and not by the whole internet.

  THanks in advance.

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  jamesewelch · Member · Jun 5, 2008 at 10:13 pm

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  So you are basically asking for a extranet?

  The site would be passworded and accessible by only a certain set of users, correct?

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  jhonyleroy · Member · Jun 5, 2008 at 10:53 pm

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  Exactly, being the set of users all the employees of the company. So anyone could create one or more blogs (like a normal user does in wordpress.com) but being these blogs related to the company and only members of the company could see others blogs.

  Make sense?

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  jhonyleroy · Member · Jun 5, 2008 at 11:05 pm

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  Just to be clearer.

  I can take wordpress open source and install the software into my intranet. From there, all the employees of the company could create their accounts and start creating blogs. So this would be a standalone instance of wordpress where only employees in the intranet would have access to.

  This is fine, buy my company has not the resource to maintain neither the infrastructure needed (server) nor the application and database maintenance. So, my question is basically if any company in the world (or wordpress itself) provide this as a service, meaning that they would host our wordpress instance as well as provide support to the same (keeping up to the latest version, user management, database maintenance…).

  Hope this clarify.

  Thanks a ton.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 5, 2008 at 11:23 pm

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  You should contact staff directly about this. My hunch is that it would be possible, but not cheap. You’d probably get better support by dealing with an independent hosting company that offered such services.

  In the first case, the info you need is here:
  http://wordpress.com/contact-support/

  In the second case, you would need to look around at WordPress.ORG, rather than WordPress.com, as they are the main site for independent installs and I understand they keep a list of hosts which offer tech help.