User Management Question

  • Hello,
    I’ve been asked to set up blogging software for people at my office to use (WordPress). Currently we all (about 15 of us) do weekly reports and turn them into the boss. It was suggested that the reports be done in a blog, that way we could add to it easily enough, it would be ongoing instead of a weekly task, other people in the department could view and/or make comments, and the “higher-ups” could have access to the info without doing a bunch of printing or reporting.

    My question is, what do you think is the best way to make use of WordPress in this situation? Do I install the software separately for each user, or would it make more sense to have one blog installation with multiple useraccounts? Each users information has to be accessible separately and it can’t be modified by anyone else.

    Any ideas appreciated! Thanks.

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  • Each users information has to be accessible separately and it can’t be modified by anyone else.

    I understand the second requirement – not to be allowed to modify. That’s OK.
    However, the “accessible separately” is not entirely clear…
    Say, person A from department #1 writes/posts a report.
    Can (read: is allowed) person B from department #2 to see it?
    Or only a person with the role BOSS can see and read it?

    Thread Starter dbuckley

    (@dbuckley)

    By “accessible separately” I meant that we need to be able to easily differentiate between a user’s posts. All posts by a user must be able to be viewed separately. It’s on an intranet and I don’t think we’ll be concerned about if department #1 reads department #2’s posts. (right now there isn’t a “department 2”) However, everyone in department #1 will need to read from all department # 1 people.

    Hope I’m not confusing the issue more.

    Thread Starter dbuckley

    (@dbuckley)

    I guess part of what I’m asking is, is WordPress designed so that each installation is for one individual’s blog?

    I would make a blog for each dept.

    Then use RSS to pull the feed from each blog into the boss blog. That way he sees all at all times, and each dept sees their dept.
    If other depts want to see other depts blogs, again use RSS.
    Be sure to tell staff to use the Draft facility ??

    that help ?

    Thread Starter dbuckley

    (@dbuckley)

    I’ll need to play around with it a bit, but that certainly sounds reasonable. I especially like the idea of the RSS feeds.

    One thing…If an entire department is in one blog, won’t all of their posts run together? In other words, I make a post, then user 2 makes a post, user 2’s post would show up right after mine. After a dozen or so posts over the course of the day it would make it difficult to identify one users posts… unless (I suppose) each user had their own category…

    “After a dozen or so posts over the course of the day it would make it difficult to identify one users posts“

    That’s where the_author() template tag comes into use. Also see:

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/the_author_posts_link
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_list_authors

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