WordPress as a Community Portal able to accept content submitted by users

[MWDelaney]

Hello,
I run a small community site for a group of about 300 users in the Northeastern United States. Currently the site is run using an outdated CMS (PostNuke).

I’d like to run the site on something more modern and with better support, like WordPress, but so far I’m unable to find any information on some of the key features I’d need to implement; perhaps someone reading this could help.

The two major features I cannot live without on my site (they’re convenient and my users, who are mostly not computer-savvy, have gotten used to them) are as follows:

• Anonymous submission of “news” stories (blog entries) which could then be approved by an editor and posted
• A calendar which can also be submitted to anonymously by readers that supports categories, locations, repeating events and contact information for events. These, too, would be approved by an editor before they appeared on the calendar.

Any advice or resources anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.

[iridiax]

WordPress can do lots of things, especially with plugins, but have you looked at using something like Drupal?

[MWDelaney]

iridiax,
I have looked at Drupal and its calendar plugins seem lacking as well. Nothing seems to have the same level of features that the PostNuke plugin I’m currently using, PostCalendar, has (and has had for around five years since it was updated last).