I'm looking for a wordpress OR drupal plugin with which the users of my site can create a sub discussion to an article by themselves and invite other users to join. This subdiscussion should be invisible to not invited Users. Is there anything similar? Or could I do this some other way?
I didn't decide for wordpress or drupal by now, so which ever cms can do this will be it.
Thanks for your answers!
I don't know of such a module for Drupal but if you'll go for the custom module route here's some pointers to how it could be implemented:
Create a content type called Subarticle, enable comments and add a Node reference field to it. Allow your users to create nodes of that type.
For the widget of the node reference, use the Node Reference URL Widget module which will create a link on each Article, something like Create a Subarticle, automatically making the new subarticle point to the article.
For display, views could be used with a node argument on the node reference field.
For invites and visibility, check out Organic Groups. When a new subarticle is saved you'll have to programmatically create a new organic group, make the current user the owner and add the subarticle to that group. With an organic group he can then invite users.
You could use Vanilla, that can be easily integrated wtih Drupal or Wordpress (or anything). Check out this podcast to see how easy it is to plug into WP. There are plugins for Vanilla that provide the private thread functionality you are looking for.
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Using WordPress is a great way to learn and make progress on web development. Although, I want to make admins for each and one of my classmates to only and only create and publish posts on the web. For example, BuzzFeed has admins that create content and it tells the author name, date and time, comments and responses next to it. That's what I am aiming for. Not all of my classmates use wordpress or have ever used it so I want to find a way to create admins for them simply without creating security holes for the website itself and risking getting hacks or login attempts.
what is the best way to approach a situation like this?
anyone?
Thanks :)
If you want your classmates to be able to add posts you can add them as "Authors." Wordpress has a build in permission system that allows authors to only add, edit and delete posts.
If you want to have more control over the capabilities you can use a plugin like User Role Editor. This will allow you to create a new role and set specific capabilities for the created user role.
I need a plugin that would restrict registered users to only be able to add/edit pages in specific categories. Even though WordPress pages do not have "Categories" like posts do.
Like, if I have a category called "Robot Maintenance", I want to make sure that only specified users or roles can edit and create pages in that category.
I see that the Member plugin lets me create new roles with such capabilities as "edit only pages they own" but I was hoping I could create a role (for say, a department) and configure that role to be able to edit and create pages within the {department} category. Or even limit users to specific categories.
This is a fairly complex task, and you may want to engage a professional wordpress plugin developer to build this for you.
Having said that....
It is possible to add categories to a page. Check out the tutorial at http://shibashake.com/wordpress-theme/add-tags-and-categories-to-your-wordpress-page
Next, you will want to programatically create roles for each page category you have. You will want to hook into the create and remove category to create/remove your special role. Then, you can use the members plugin to grant proper permissions.
Then, you need to hook into the page edit flow to ensure that the current user has the permissions to edit the current page (based on your custom roles and the page's category).
Still a bit of work for you to research...but at least this should give you a fairly good starting point.
I'm building a WP site and at one specific page i want to have a custom field in wich the user can select from existing content to be linked there. (english is not my native lang :)
In my case:
I have a services page where the admin can add new services.
I have a doctors page where the admin can add new doctors.
I want to have the option to link one doctor to one specific service.
Can this be done?
As other said, Advanced Custom Field is the answer to your and most needs regarding the data hierarchy management in wordpress.
In addiction I suggest to you to read this good tutorial about the use of Types, another good plugin that does the same work of ACF.
Considere moreover that both plugins ask money if you want more functionalities.
Here is the plugin url : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/ that makes relationship between custom filed. It will you.
I want to allow members of a Drupal website to upload their own content to the site (something like a blog post or questionnaire), but have it visible only to themselves (hidden from other members with the same role). The idea is to have them store some personal content that other members don't need to see, but that only the author member would need to see (or have access to) when using the site.
What modules would I need to use? Or how could I go about setting that up?
You can do this easily with http://drupal.org/project/content_access
I don't know if you've already solved this problem, but I recently did something similar with a shared blog in Drupal 7. I wanted users to have both private and public blog posts. I used the Save Draft module (http://drupal.org/project/save_draft) to add an extra button to the content editing screen, which I called Save (Unpublished) rather than "Save Draft" -- I used the String Overrides module to make that happen (http://drupal.org/project/stringoverrides). In the admin panel for permissions, Authenticated users were granted to right to view and edit their own unpublished items. Users could thus save their blog posts in a way that others could not see them. Then I used Views (http://drupal.org/project/views) to create a list view that used the criteria content type = blog, state = unpublished, and content author = current user. This gives users a list of their unpublished blog posts.
The https://drupal.org/project/view_own module handles this exactly the way you are looking for.
Can anyone recommend me a good members-only plugin? I want to hide pages (and their tabs) if users aren't signed in.
So far I have found:
'Member Access' which doesn't hide the tabs
'wp-members' which wouldn't work with 2.8.4
'user access manager' which was too complex clunky to be useful.
There should be something basic out there for what I need, but no luck so far.
Justin Tadlock is a WordPress heavy (wrote the popular Hybrid theme framework), recently released a comprehensive user management plugin called Members, which among other things can turn your blog into a login-only venue:
Private Blog: Allows you to create a
private blog that can only be accessed
by users that are logged in (redirects
them to the login page).
But I get the impression that you're looking to keep some part available to the public users and other parts only for registered users.
You can also use this plugin to restrict certain areas of your blog, screenshot example here: based on role
Hiding the tabs from the public user is the challenging part. Themes typically aren't designed with private portions in mind; you'd have to hack it yourself or get someone to do it for you.
If are familiar with php and WP structure, you can add a few lines of code to a few template files to redirect users to login page if they are not signed-in. Let me know if you want to go that way. I can try to provide sample code. Are you using one of the basic themes?
I have a plugin called "LJ Custom Menu Links" that can do what you are asking. However as the name suggests they are custom links, so you would have to hand add the pages you want. But it does/and can only show a link when a user is logged on if that is what you want. Combined with "pagemash" plugin which will hide pages from the menu generated by WP itself leaving only the pages linked to by the LJ Custom Menu Links plugin.
However I was under the impression if you made a Page private then it wouldn't show up unless someone was logged in, or am I wrong on that one?
A good option is to use three difference plugins:
Member Access
Register Plus
AJAX Login Widget++
You can find my post on all these here:
http://sbhosting.com/wordpress-member-area/
Try CMS Members
I know it hide some pages for non-members.
A paid option is this. It's VERY good. I use it on several websites. Called Wishlist Memeber
For me s2member does the job. You don't have to use the paypal option, you can stick with free membership.