Is my site too complex for WordPress?

  • I maintain an old PHP/MySQL site for my church that I’d love to move to WordPress. Can it do these things?

    1. Allow each church department to maintain their own section of the site separately. For example, let the Youth department edit their pages but not be able to edit the Music department pages.

    2. Allow some departments like Youth and College to use a separate child theme: same basic layout but different colors/bkg images.

    3. Have a custom content type for announcements (such as announcement for the youth Superbowl party), which I’d like to be able to display the on BOTH the individual department pages as well as on the church Home page.

    4. At least two separate blogs, maybe three

    5. Audio and video podcasts

    6. Online donations

    I don’t mind using multisite, and I don’t mind writing PHP/MySQL if needed. My biggest concern is that #1, #2, and #4 would require multisite, but #3 would be impossible with multisite. Is that right?

    Thanks in advance. BTW the current site is https://www.bocacommunity.org.

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  • All of these can be accommodated by a competent WordPress developer to my knowledge except for the first. There’s not the granularity of author permissions to my knowledge, but then I consider myself to be ‘keen’ rather than ‘expert’. Perhaps there’s a plugin out there to enable this?

    You can accomplish this using a multisite install, or possibly with a single install.

    1. You can use the User Permissions plugin to manage permissions on a post by post basis, or based on role. With a multi-site install, this is built in.

    2. You can use separate child themes with a multisite install. But you can do the same with a single install and simply use a different template file for some pages.

    3. You can create a custom post type in either system. With a single install, you can modify what shows up where using the templates. With a multisite install you can use RSS feeds to put content where you like. Or you can use this plugin.

    4. Multisite can do this, or you can have templates that only show certain categories of posts in a single install.

    5+6. You can do this.

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