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Can Textpattern power a multiple-blog site?
I’m very familiar with building sites for Textpattern, but I have a site to build that has some requirements I’m not sure I can pull off in Textpattern. If I can, please let me know; I’d rather not have to learn WordPress to do this…
- Site content will mostly come from blog authors – posting to their own blog pages on the site
- These blogs need to be in subdomains: i.e. www.site.com/john or www.site.com/david
- Authors need to only have access to their section – I don’t want to have to rely on the authors’ memory to select the proper section to post their latest article to.
Can this be done in TXP? Currently it doesn’t seem so; I can’t find a way to restrict an author to a certain section only. I can’t find a way to pull in content from separate Textpattern installs, either.
Any ideas?
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Re: Can Textpattern power a multiple-blog site?
I have tried to separate sections into different subdomains with ied_if_domain
Sadly, I wasn’t able to make the plugin work. I’m currently changing host, I will try again.
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Re: Can Textpattern power a multiple-blog site?
The blogs in separate sections is easy – but the access I am not sure about. I am pretty certain that there is a plugin that can do this, but can’t remember the name – its either sed_section_fields or perhaps a plugin by Ami Variaas (variaas). Sorry not to be more helpful – perhaps someone can chime in with a name or an idea.
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#4 2009-09-22 08:16:44
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Re: Can Textpattern power a multiple-blog site?
jstubbs wrote:
…I am pretty certain that there is a plugin that can do this, but can’t remember the name – its either sed_section_fields or perhaps a plugin by Ami Variaas (variaas).
asv_auth_articles
This plugin is very useful but while it hides articles written by other authors you are still able to write in every section so I don’t know if it is the right tool in your case.
Last edited by redbot (2009-09-22 08:22:22)
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Re: Can Textpattern power a multiple-blog site?
With subdomains I guess you mean sub-directories: ie www.site.com/john/ and not john.site.com.
In either case did you try the multi-site capability of the latest txp?
Advantages to this would be the
- Clear separation of authors
- No plugins
- Single textpattern source code
disadvantages would include
- multiple dbs (1 for each author)
- Harder to administer ALL content.
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Re: Can Textpattern power a multiple-blog site?
asv_auth_articles will get you part of the way there but isn’t foolproof.
I’ve done this before much as you describe it from a single installation with sub-directories for users. Each user sees only their own articles and image and files, the admin can see everything. Each author has a section and can post only to a defined set of sections. Internal organisation is done with categories enabling one to combine information from different authors.
I used a private paid plugin written by Mary which includes sign-up and author bios (and required a minimal hack to the core). She’s never released it (probably because it requires quite a bit of manual setup to tailor it to a specific situation) and it may now need updating for the most recent version of txp 4.2 (which also now provides proper author-specific image and file permissions and code insertion mechanism that may obviate the need for a hack). You might want to contact Mary and ask her about it (she originally made it for the artiswork artist collaboration site). Mail me if you want to see how I’m using it.
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