General WordPress Questions

  • sifuhall

    (@sifuhall)


    12 years, 9 months ago

    I am looking for a CMS to go with my existing Xenforo forum.

    A WordPress bridge exists and seems to be very popular, but I have never used WordPress and have a few general questions.

    My goal is to have it be a CMS and not a blog site (already off to a bad start, right?).

    I need to be able to create article categories and subcategories.

    I need to be able to allow my users (all registered users) to submit articles, but the articles must be approved by a staff member before the article is visible to the public.

    I have read about why I should not use categories and topic in permalinks, but I’m not sure what else would work for my site. People want to view articles by article topic and not the date the article was published.
    For example, if the url were similar to /weapons/staff it would make more sense to my users (and me) than a date based URL.

    I have used Drupal quite a bit in the past and see that the pods widget seems to be similar. What are some of the more popular widgets I can review to help me setup a CMS?

    Thank you for your time and I really appreciate any help.

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  • stvwlf

    (@stvwlf)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Everything you are looking for is already in WordPress and doesn’t need Pods. What you described is true of WordPress about 3 years ago. Since then its added increasing CMS features. More than half the WordPress sites are now not blogs but websites.

    Not using categories in a URL as nothing to do with making it impossible to access content by category. Categories and access by category are an inherent part of WordPress regardless of URL scheme adopted.

    Some of the CMS features that have been added are Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies. You can set up and arrange your content and classification systems however you like, however you need them.

    I need to be able to create article categories and subcategories.

    built in

    I need to be able to allow my users (all registered users) to submit articles, but the articles must be approved by a staff member before the article is visible to the public.

    This is one of the user roles, called Contributor. Built in

    Do some Google research on Custom Posts and Taxonomies
    Start here:
    http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/04/29/custom-post-types-in-wordpress

    good luck!

    Thread Starter sifuhall

    (@sifuhall)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks for the reply and it sounds like it may exactly what I need.

    I will also research alternative permalinks because a date scheme is not something I want.

    Thanks again.

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