User Area Content Question

  • Resolved Will White

    (@willpcg)


    15 years, 2 months ago

    I’ve recently started brainstorming with my coworkers about rebuilding our company’s website. I’m pretty familiar with WP and very familiar with CSS but when an idea came up that I wasn’t sure could be accomplished within the WP CMS I came running to the forums.

    The Feature: We’d like to set up a “Client Login” area on our site using the user setup of WP. Once logged in we’d like each client to be directed to a page specifically created for them, that we can add content to for them to download. We’d also like to ensure other clients cannot view each others areas.

    By doing this we could make things available on a client by client basis for them to download. Instead of trying to email or yousendit a 50 megabyte file to a client, we could upload it via ftp, toss a link on their page, and let them download it directly.

    I have no clue how I could even start developing this. Any suggestions, even just concept-wise?

    Thanks in advance!

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  • I’m going to be doing something like this. Here is how I have it planned. When a user logs in they already go to their own special area, with access to a profile page and a truncated dashboard. So the only thing to do really is customize the profile/dashboard to include the extra content you want your clients to see. It should be relatively easy.

    Thread Starter Will White

    (@willpcg)

    You, my friend, just saved the day. I hadn’t thought about altering the current landing page instead of creating a new one. Duh!

    The only thing I still wonder about is how I’m going to make the content different based on the user. I want Client A to be able to see their documents only, and not have access to the documents I upload for Client B, C, D etc.

    Thanks a bunch and best of luck on your site build-out.

    Its very easy to get userdata from within the WP framework– get_currentuserinfo() for example.

    Thread Starter Will White

    (@willpcg)

    That did it. I can set it up now using the functions listed in your link to pull the necessary info. Thank you very much.

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