Multi-user site w/ individual pages?

  • Dan Hannigan

    (@dhannigan)


    12 years, 10 months ago

    Hi all,

    So I’ve been googling around for a solution to this but wound up here. My boss came to me with an idea for a site, and he’s wondering if it’s possible in wordpress.

    – At it’s core the site would be directory of users
    – Each user has their own page they can update/edit
    – People can search for users based off what group their in, location, ect.

    That’s about the most basic way I can put it’s functionality down.

    I looked at BuddyPress, it came fairly close… but I’ve never used it and it seemed more focused on social interaction – which this wont focus on.

    Any ideas/tips would be great.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 10 months ago

    Depends one what you mean by “Each user has their own page they can update/edit”

    A blog or just A page?

    Also, you can disable a lot of the social networking features in BP 🙂

    Thread Starter Dan Hannigan

    (@dhannigan)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    It would be just an individual page that the user can post information / updates on. Say if they were salesmen of some sort… they could put something about themselves, and little blurbs about their current specials.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 10 months ago

    You could do that with built in author pages: http://codex.wordpress.org/Author_Templates

    Thread Starter Dan Hannigan

    (@dhannigan)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    I could do that with author templates, I’ve worked with them before. But I was under the impression those aren’t really something the user can update. As in the example above… I/the company I work for wouldn’t be doing the updates, the individual salesmen would. I just might not know the ins and outs of author templates 😀

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    12 years, 10 months ago

    The author info is handled by the logged in user. They can edit their own bio.

    You make the template page, they fill in the bio/description, and you call it in your template page 🙂

    Thread Starter Dan Hannigan

    (@dhannigan)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    That’s not too bad of a solution – I’ve done something similar to that for a site I build so I know it’s not too hard to develop and implement. I’ll have to fiddle with that.

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