Security limitations w/ WordPress

  • My apologies if this has been answere or not… I’m considering WordPress for our small company’s extranet, where we’d be postig files for client review. I like the levels of security for posting, as I undertand them, but I’m looking for something extra and can’t decipher whether or not WP offers this:

    What I’d REALLY like is a front-end that prompts for a login when you first hit the blog and, based on the log in, shows content specific to that login. Obviously, I’m interested in only showing postings relevant to a particular client, based on that client’s login.

    Is WP capable of this, either out of the box or w/ plug-ins? If not, do any of you blog-savvy folks have a suggestion for what might fit that bill? Thanks in advance…

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  • I don’t believe WP will do what you require it to do out of the box. And frankly, I don’t think you should even be looking towards a blogging software. A CMS (content management system) software like PostNuke, PHPNuke, etc., might be more in line with what you need.

    They have greater control over user abilities and visibilties. You can restrict access to sections based specifically on usernames and so on.

    Regards

    You could try putting:
    auth_redirect();
    directly below the line including wp-config.php in the file wp-blog-header.php. That’s an authorization function built in to WordPress. It shoud force people to log in before viewing any content (if they’re already logged in, a cookie will have been set and they won’t have to log in again). You can then figure out their user ID and customize content accordingly.

    It worked for me in a quick test. No guarantees on how robust it is, but I think it will work.

    I am also interested in finding a way to require users to login to the main Blog page before viewing any content. I couldn’t get the auth_redirect(); line to work. Can you please provide me with more information on this. Thx

    Plugins, plugins, plugins!

    Check out:

    https://17thdegree.com/archives/2005/07/01/wordpress-plugin-page-restriction/

    Cheers,
    Oli

    Coupled with that plugin – the thought just hit me that you can use if(user_level>5) or something along those lines. Look it up

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