Title: new to CMS functionality
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# new to CMS functionality

 *  [mbarath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbarath/)
 * (@mbarath)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-to-cms-functionality/)
 * Hi. I am very new to WordPress but I have a good handle on PHP and MySQL. I have
   been assigned the responsibility at work to redo our site. We are a large social
   services organization with numerous departments and facets. Each dept is responsible
   for maintaining their own web content. Our old site uses a version of Joomla 
   which I am quite dissatisfied with.
 * I’ve been looking into WP as a CMS to allow specific users to edit their own 
   content. The Transportation Dept, for example, should be able to edit their own
   pages, but no others. How to do this may become much clearer as I set up a dev
   environment, but I’d like to have as much info as possible going into it.
 * Is anyone here familiar with some thorough resources discussing these issues,
   how to accomplish what I’ve described? Books, articles, etc? I’ve done a quick
   search of the forums here, but haven’t yet found what I need. Thanks….. Michael

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 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-to-cms-functionality/#post-1455980)
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/role-scoper/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/role-scoper/)
 * is something to look at….. allows more precise management of who can edit what

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