Total Newbie question

  • skbohler

    (@skbohler)


    14 years, 4 months ago

    Hello,

    I am a long-time IT person, but have little knowledge about WordPress (everything I’ve worked on was always custom built).

    I’m wondering if I can use WordPress for a new website. Here’s what I need: (Note, a blog is probably the least of my content needs)

    Users have to register to see anything
    Administrator can register somebody else
    Registration has different levels which control content they can see
    Can post own blog, or link to other blog posts
    Votes tied to member and controllable by user level
    Can complete a test and change their level (I assume this isn’t available, but is it possible for a PHP developer to code something like this)
    Discussion forum where users can get immediate or daily digest compilations

    Thanks very much in advance for any advice/info!

    Steve

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  • jacogriesel

    (@jacogriesel)

    14 years, 4 months ago

    As far as my knowledge goes, you can do all this with the right plugins and hard-coding. Start by searching through the plugins available, and then you’ll get a better picture of what you’ll have to develop yourself (or ask somebody else to!).

    Best of luck!

    buddha-trance

    (@buddha-trance)

    14 years, 4 months ago

    When you say “can post own blog”, do you mean the users? In which case you may want to look at WordPress MU (though this will merge with WP for single users in the future).

    If it’s just your blog, you can also build the site by creating “pages” and a front page, and have the blog on a separate tab.

    For the discussion forum, there are plugins for this, but it’s worth looking into bbPress, where you can share the users database tables and integrate it with WP.

    WordPress is very flexible, and as JacoGriesel suggested, you can search the available plugins to get an idea of the potential.

    Thread Starter skbohler

    (@skbohler)

    14 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks for the input!

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