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1. scotchegg78
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   HI guys

   I am using WP as a CMS, and on one page i have a list of artists performing at an event. What i would like is to give each artist a page and allow them to login and edit this themselves. nothing more than a little bio and a few images if they wish.

   I experimented with creating the artist as an author and can see you can assign the page i created for them to an author, but unless they are an editor the pages icon does not appear in their admin dashboard to edit the page?!

   Whats the best way , using standard install if possible or plugin to acheive what i am trying to do to just create a page and have only one other person other than admin have access to it to edit it?

   thanks for any help,

2. asechrest
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   If you've created each of them as an author, you can utilize WordPress author templates. Then each of them can edit their own personal WordPress profile (which includes a "description" section where they could put their bio), and you could then display this info on their author page.

   I wrote an example up.

   For example on each author page you could display their Avatar/Gravatar, their display name, when they became members of your site, their email, and their description. (If they artists make "posts" on your site, you can also display a list of their posts like in the example I linked to.)

   However, this wouldn't let them add their own photos. If you truly need to create a page for each artist and give them editing rights for the page, I don't have a good idea of the best way to go about that. If you could find a way to simply give each artist editing rights on a page, this would mean they could do whatever they wanted inside that page -- I don't know how you'd constrain them to only a short bio and a few photos. They could add text, links, photos, spam, advertizements, etc.

   Maybe someone else has some different ideas.

3. scotchegg78
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   many thanks asechrest!

   funyn i was just working thought your site example!
   I am not 100% sure it will suffice but it may do.

   Teh original issue of having authors edit pages assigned to them only is still the goal i think, and i was about to try and get my hands dirty with the admin code and see if i can figure out the permissions and db calls and alter it to

   1 add the pages tab to the admin dashboard for authors to get to pages section
   2 when it loops for all pages, make it check they are either admin or editor or assigned as author. this way only the actual page would come up. thats the plan anyway :)

   As for contrains its not an issue, they would have to be trusted to keep content suitable and admin can always edit it if not.

   I am sure they must be an easy way doing this, see what the next few hours of work bring up. I will keep you posted on progress if your interested.

   thanks again
   scotch

4. hellocatfood
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi Scotchegg78

   Did you manage to achieve this?

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