Is WordPress the right platform for this website?

  • chopsky

    (@chopsky)


    13 years ago

    Hey guys

    I have been tasked to develop a website for a large gated community made up of about 18 apartment buildings and I’m trying to work out if WordPress is the best platform for the job.

    Besides for the home page with all the info about the estate, they’ve requested that each building, as well as the HOA (home owners association), has its own section (or blog) on the website, where they can easily upload recent news and relevant documents pertaining to each specific building.

    I would need users to be able to sign up on the website, selecting which building(s) they reside in. Their sign up would then be forwarded to us, at which point we would then be able to manually accept it or not (based on them providing correct information in the form).

    Users would then be able to login to the site and be re-directed (have access to) their specific building’s section ONLY.

    I have considered building a static website for all general information, linking to multiple wordpress installations for each building’s private site. This however has its limitations, as individuals who own more than 1 apartment in different buildings and those requiring access to the HOA section as well as their own building would have to have to log in separately each time to view each site (which is a bit of a pain in the a–).

    Any suggestions? Would I be better off using another CMS platform?

    Thanks guys!

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  • Thread Starter chopsky

    (@chopsky)

    13 years ago

    Let me clarify: there are 18 sections for each building and the HOA. Each is restricted to the public. I want people to be able to register and thereafter login in, giving them access to each section (or site) that they have they the rights to access.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years ago

    You can do this with Multisite, the only tricky part would be making sure the right people are added to the right sites.

    How familiar are you with WP?

    Thread Starter chopsky

    (@chopsky)

    13 years ago

    Im quite familiar with WP. Never used Multisite before. Why?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years ago

    Learning curve 🙂 I like to know where I’m starting from. If you were brand new, I’d say use what you already know. Learning Multisite if you know WP isn’t too bad. Starting with it can be brutal.

    So okay! You can use multisite to make 20 sites. 18 buildings, one “overview”, and the HOA. I would make the main site (I.e. the first one) the overview about the whole community. Everything else would be a child site. That part is easy.

    You can also set up each site so only logged in users can see it, just like normal WP, though you’ll also want to check if those users are members of each blog. Remember, multisite makes your users network members. They still need to be added to the blogs, but as network members, you’re considered a ‘subscriber’ (you can comment) of all blogs on the network.

    As for user management, I would use http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bulk-user-management/

    Thread Starter chopsky

    (@chopsky)

    13 years ago

    Thanks Ipstenu. Is it possible to create a login section outside of the typical /wp-admin ? I don’t want logged in users to be able to access the admin section, only to be able to access their respective child sites.
    I’ve never created sign-up and login forms for WP sites…

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years ago

    By default, if you’re not a member of a specific site, you get told you don’t have access to that site.

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-hide-dashboard/ can also help with that, though 🙂

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