Is WordPress a good fit for me?

  • I run a very large and complex fansite, that is currently using Postnuke (Zikula). I’m having a lot of issues with the site and with Zikula in general, part of which is the fact that the community as a whole appears to be dying out and good plugins and support are difficult to find (never mind how buggy the scripts are).

    So I’m thinking of switching to a different platform. My boss was showing me the WordPress 3 Beta, and I’m intrigued, but I’m not sure it’s the right fit for me. Will I be able to do the following with WP?

    – assign administrative permissions per section of the site? Specifically, if I have a “News Admin”, I want them only editing/adding content related to the News, not mucking around with the Encyclopedia or the Fanfiction.

    – allow subscribed users to submit content to ALL sections of the site, but have it reviewed by an admin before going live? I.e. we allow users to submit news, fanfiction, gallery photos, recipes, encyclopedia entries, and a host of other things. I want them to be able to continue to submit items like that, without having them go into the admin panel itself.

    – are there any really good forum plugins?

    – good gallery plugins? I’m especially interested in something that allows users to submit to individual folders, for example.

    Basically, my site is based on the idea of community built content. Is this something that is possible in WP, or am I better off looking at something like Drupal?

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

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    You might want to take a look at BuddyPress. It would definitely be a VERY different feel from PostNuke (I’ve used both for running fan sites over the years) and I hesitate to say ‘Yes!’ since I think it COULD work, but it comes down to a comfort issue. It would be a big change, a VERY big change, and you may not want to use WP for all of it, but you could for some (most) of it.

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