We want to have multiple blogs in one wordpress enviroment. Namely different categories like life and health. They should have the same look and a user should be able to switch between blog topics.
Is it recommended that I have multiple installations of wordpress so that I have a seperate cms for each blog? Currently its just a user that handles all the content, however in the future there could be a writer that should only be allowed to write into one topic/blog.
Whats the best way to achieve this?
The best way provided that in the future multiple writers will add content, is to create a multisite wordpress plateform using the same theme.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
If you want to specialize each blog in one theme like live and health you can create one blog for each theme. for instance :
yourdomain.com/life
yourdomain.com/health
But you can also create one blog and use the category system of wordpress in order to create the universe, which is more simpler and faster to setup.
The best choice will depend on the number of content you want to publish, the restrictions for each writer,...
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I've been looking for quite some time to find a Newsletter plugin for multi-author for a WordPress site.
Currently using a Multisite with MailPoet. This way, each author is assigned to a site and can build his newsletter without having access to other authors lists, posts and subscribers.
I'm currently looking to remove the multisite feature as it's causing more problem than it solves.
However, I'm still stuck and I can't find a decent plugin that will allow the author to build a custom newsletter from the WordPress backend - without having access to all other authors subscribers, posts and so on.
Mailpoet does everything I need, but it doesn't allow to associate lists and newsletter per author.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Well, I really have no idea how you might isolate each author all sharing one WordPress site... It's reasonably simple to show an author only their own posts, but assigning specific users to only one author would be a bigger beast to tackle. If multisite is working for you but you don't like the nuances of it (Totally understand by the way, multisite can be a pain to administer), I might suggest installing many instances of wordpress, one for each author, and using something self-hosted like infinitewp to manage it. It'll be a bigger deal to set up initially, but it might work a lot smoother for you.
I'm very new to WP development. I host a website which needs a list of trails (hiking, biking, etc) and I'd like to write a WordPress plugin to do it.
Can someone please tell me if I'm taking the right approach, and if what I'm proposing is possible.
I'd like the site to end up with an auto-generated and filtered index at http://example.com/trail-guide, and the discrete trail info pages at http://example.com/trail-guide/trailname. This data would all be stored in a single database table holding info for each trail, with an admin page for adding, editing, and deleting entries from here.
Is a WP plugin the best way to go about doing this, or should I be looking at something else?
From the way you're describing, your best bet would be to Register A Custom Post Type. This can be done by adding to your existing theme's Functions.php file, or by creating a plugin.
If you don't plan on changing themes, my advice would be to just hardcode everything into your functions.php file. Otherwise, creating a plugin for this particular job would be the safest alternative.
Using this functionality in tandem with Custom Meta Boxes and Custom Taxonomies will allow you to keep everything organized within the Wordpress Framework with your own special data.
This means that these new posts can also be queried at any time through the standard Wordpress Loop or search box.
If you are uncomfortable with writing your own functions to extend your existing framework, you might want to look into some plugins like GD Custom Posts And Taxonomies Tools to manage your own.
Hope this helps.
I am new to Wordpress (using roughly 6 months) and just now getting into development when I decided I would attempt to replicate a project I have going currently and after reading multiple blogs regarding plugin development and custom post types, I am thoroughly confused as to which direction I should go. I am in need of creating a site that has back-end management (admin only) and then end-user management where the end-user should have a page that allows them to manage their items.
With custom post types, I am able to create the objects that I will need to use but that doesn't give me total control when it comes to allowing the end-user to modify them from a front-end interface.
With a plugin, I think I am able to create exactly what I need but not sure how to yet but at the same time, thinking through the structure of Wordpress, everything is basically a post, correct? So, if that's the case, my plugin would need to have the ability to register new custom post types. Does it sound like I am on the right track or am I way off here?
Custom Post Types can add a lot of power, especially if you dress up the Custom Fields with meta boxes. You can always use a role-scoping plugin to limit the access of end-users to only be able to use these Custom Posts and nothing else. CPT are a great way to handle inventory management and not rely on a plugin that will either cost $ or potentially break months down the road.
That said, many plugin you would find would most likely just create a Custom Post Type anyway. Take a look around on the codex for info on creating CPT, and if you're interested, look at jaredatch's work on Github.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types
https://github.com/jaredatch/Custom-Metaboxes-and-Fields-for-WordPress
I am a novice at Wordpress but I am very familiar with PHP and programming.
I have a somewhat complex website that I would like to program in Wordpress. I have ~40 static pages, ~5 different blog pages, a home page that display some static text and lists the newest posts in each of the different blogs.
My question is what is best practice when it comes to setting up multiple blogs? Should I set up different authors and query by author? Should I set up one author and multiple categories or tags and then query by those categories/tags?
I would like things as simple as possible. Right now on the dev site I have everything set up using categories. My worry is that the user might forget to select a category for his post (and then it would never show up).
If I switch to using multiple authors is there a way I can view all of the posts by one author? Similar to categories (/category/%categoryName%/).
You could segment it by author, but the support for that isn't as robust as you'd probably need. I would suggest using WordPress Multisite:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network