How to handle numerous authors?

  • Resolved Drover

    (@drover)


    14 years, 6 months ago

    I’m working on a site that will have numerous authors, as anyone registering will be added as an author and be able to post.

    1) I want them to be able to post, but I don’t want them able to wander around the admin area/dashboard.

    2) Is there an easy way to skin the backend so when they;re posting it doesn’t look like a WordPress site?

    I’m looking for a good way to handle this. Ideas? Plugin recommendations?

    Thanks.

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  • Thread Starter Drover

    (@drover)

    Anyone?

    well….if they are authors (can post) or contributors (posts need approval) they only have access to so much of the dashboard. They can’t mess things up on ya.

    But if you want to not do that, there’s a combination of plugins you can use.
    First I think, use aplugin like post from page, or tdo mini forms. Both of those allow posting from the wordpress front-end, rather than the backend.

    That gets posting but you still need to handle permission, etc…so not just anyone can post from that page. Maybe some sort of role manager plugin, that allows only authors to see the posting page, or something.
    There are a few plugins like that you could probably use, maybe something liek role scoper

    And finally, when users log in, they automatically go to the dash. You may want to redirect them to the post page or something. I forget the exact name of the plugin, but its something like login redirect

    Hopefully that gets ya started

    Thread Starter Drover

    (@drover)

    Thanks a lot! That gives me some good options to look at. Much appreciated!

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