On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Malcolm Greene <[email protected]> wrote:
> Any WordPress users out there? ~3,8000 posts at http://blog.tedroche.com and counting. A couple of them pretty good. Founding member of the Seacoast WordPress Developers group, http://www.wordpressdevseacoast.com/ and http://www.meetup.com/WordpressDevSeacoast/ but I'm more of a noobie student than a master. Mostly been a user and admin up until now; a little HTML/CSS design work on templates. Just starting development, in the process of writing my own plugin, more as a hobbyist. > I'm wondering if it is possible to > create login accounts where logged in users only see posts > filtered by a specific collection of categories and/or tags where > the categories and tags specific to an account would not be > visible to other users. (Apologies if I'm not using the proper > WordPress terminology, I'm trying to come up to speed on the > latest version of this product). It's PHP code. Everything is possible, only some things are painful. Out of the box, WP has one flat table of users and a handful of roles. You'll need to reinvent the wheel of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) or find a solution someone else has already written that fits, or can be modified to meet, your needs. On the plus side, WordPress just recently received an award as a top CMS (for what that's worth). There's a huge installed base, dozens of books, tutorials, videocasts and so forth, all adhering to Sturgeon's Law, but there are some amazing add-ons. Watch out for obsolete stuff, though. > If the above is not a native feature, are there plugins that > might do this? http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ lists 13,580+ plugins, and 'document management' lists 359 possible candidates. See also: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/restrict-categories/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ If you are new to WordPress, you'll likely want to restrict yourself to plugins on the official site that have some significant feedback, instead of just installing code you find on a website. The power of reputation in the community, and all that... there have been some pretty bad security flaws over the years, in the core product or in poorly thought-out modifications. > Likewise for a recommended WordPress forum, mailing list, or blog > (there are 1000's to choose from - I'm not even sure where to > start). http://codex.wordpress.org - read that and you'll have a good idea of the architecture and design, the coding standards, and the things to look out for with plugins and other extensions. http://planet.wordpress.org/ aggregates some of the better blogs and news sources. Good luck! -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
