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1. helen432
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Sorry, did not know where to post this.

   I need to allow 7 supervisors post press releases onto a page that will add the newest release at the top, just above the last press release.

   I don't want them to do anything but type english and then FTP the updated page. Is this possible with WordPress? I do not want any visitors to be able to make comments or make changes.

   Also the entire site is HTML and external CSS. Can I just put the WordPress onto the Press Release page and password protect access to it?

   I don't know PHP, so anything that has minimal coding would be wonderful.

   Thanks,

   Helen

2. Paul Whitener Jr.
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi Helen. Since you already have a "static" site up and running and want to use WordPress for only a specific portion of your site, you could install WordPress into a subdirectory, such as:

   http://yoursite.com/press-releases

   Author accounts can be created once WordPress is installed. You can also control the "privacy" settings within the Dashboard (Settings) as well as requiring a password for specific posts while authoring. Several plugins are available to extended privacy functionality, including password-protecting your entire blog (your "press release" engine in this case).

   As far as styling, to match your existing site you'll need to create a custom theme. Here's some documentation:

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development

   If you're familiar with HTML/CSS you should be fine, everything is well documented and there is ample help/how-tos available here and elsewhere online. You can link to your existing site's CSS file from your WordPress theme, then ensure that your div ids/classes match. You'll be surprised at how fast your WordPress build will shape up.

3. Jonas Grumby
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   If you want to keep the existing web site as-is, you could install WordPress in a sub-folder and use it only for that purpose. You could make the entire WordPress installation password protected (with a plugin), and you could also set it to be hidden from search engines. Then you would just use the main blog page, with each new press release being the newest Post. Users could type or copy & paste their post content directly into WordPress (no FTP). If people are going to use copy & paste you may want to hide the Visual editor (this is a setting in the admin). You may want to give your users Contributor status so they can create content but can't actually post it to the site (would have to be approved by someone w/ a higher admin role).

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