Configuration tip needed

  • Hello,
    I’m relatively new to wp (circa 1 year of using and building simple sites) – therefore I just don’t have enough experience to decide by my own and ask you kindly for comments and suggestions.

    I want to build a multisite (I guess) or BuddyPress based WP solution for local non profit organisation I take part in.

    Within the site we need few main areas

    1. The general part (with all infos, announcements and things) – controlled by few (admins?)
    2. User registration with ability to mark some of them as ‘members’ by admin. Then such ‘member’ gets info about ones payments (we all pay small annual fee for our organisation membership), has possibility to make own blog (subsites?) or make posts as Author (requiring confirmation to show). It would be a great advantage if we could mark our members with 2-3 level membership
    3. Two separate subsite instances with own users and content – for two events we run from time to time (roughly once a year).
    4. On top of that we will need a newsletter (with mailing lists for members/non members and combined option)

    Of course on top of that all comes user comments sitewide, access for some areas for members only, social media integration and so on so on, We’re quite active on facebook to so it all counts.

    I’d much appreciate any sort of tips saying what plugin configuration to use and which way to go (multisite/buddypress). I bet there’s someone around that tried such configuration and can share a tip so I don’t struggle with checking and testing various solutions.

    Thank you all in advance
    cheers
    Adam

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  • Moderator Marius L. J.

    (@clorith)

    Hi,

    I’d drop the notion of multisite for this (you really don’t need it) and instead go with something along these lines:

    For the event sites that are held once or twice, just create separate sites for it, there’s no need to tie this in with everything else.

    Create the users as contributors will let them write articles, but an editor or administrator will have to approve posts before they can go live.

    Using a membership plugin (s2members is a popular choice for this) you can limit pages, posts or whatnot to members only (even members of a given membership level)

    For newsletters, go with MailChimp, they’ve got WordPress plugins for users to sign up easily and they know newsletters (there are a lot of rules and regulations relating to newsletter use, not to mention the work put into making sure they’re not picked up by spamfilters and thus never reaching the recipient).

    Thread Starter Adam

    (@adamderesz)

    Hello Marius,
    Thanks for a tip, really appreciate it.

    So, if I multiple sites (many wp installs) instead of multisite… is this possible to feature same users across these 2-3 separate sites?
    Are you aware of any ‘user integration’ plugin so we could share access rights between two or three wp installs (within same domain)?

    This way we’d keep site specific users (ie for photo biennial or workshops) away from ‘main site’… yet allow our members to use all of them with same login. And if ‘site specific users’ become full time members – could we somehow integrate them to main site/area?

    Just thinking loud… if we set up a blog subsite (multisite install aside of regular ‘main site’ ie subdomain) – with one move we will provide our members their ‘personal’ space ie blog or gallery and be able to use rss feed from ‘blog area’ on our main site… which will replace existing news section… which at the end of a day is a good solution – just to moderate entries instead of putting them all in.

    Maybe that really is a way…

    What about BuddyPress – can someone tell me, please is it any use for such site? I have zero experience with it. Yet I really like to make as much integration of users as possible, so they can socialise using our site and present themselves (they’re mainly passionate amateur photographers)

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