A suitable use of multisite?

  • mtharrison

    (@mtharrison)


    12 years, 8 months ago

    I’m looking for some advice on the suitability of WordPress/multisite for a site I have been asked to develop for a client. It is essentially a Customer relationship/project management tool.

    He has a design agency and wants a web based tool that allows him and his colleagues to upload new visuals and get feedback/comments from clients.

    The site must have a frontend authentication for all visitors which will take them into a control panel showing their company’s details, their current projects with the agency and links to the media ready to evaluate and give feedback on within the interface. Obviously each client sees different information upon login. The clients need no backend login.

    The agency will need to create new clients/projects and add media to them on the backend.

    I tried to convince my client to allow me to build this bespoke in Yii or CakePHP but he thinks WordPress is better. What are your opinions on this? Is WordPress suitable for this job? Thanks a lot, Matt.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 8 months ago

    You can do this in WordPress, with or without MultiSite. I’m fairly sure there are some plugins out there that can handle projects on a per-account basis, though I’ve not used them.

    Front End login isn’t difficult either, that’s just PHP 🙂

    Tim Moore

    (@tmoorewp)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    A simple solution, IMO, would be to set up MultiSite and use the P2 theme. Each subsite is a client’s space (so subsite 1 would be for client 1, and so on). Set each subsite to private and set up a user account for the client with access to that site.

    P2 theme: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/p2

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    What Tim said. Why reinvent the wheel?

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