[wp-edu] Restricting authors to specific category posting

[Chuck Wyatt]

Hi Jim,

Currently we have a relational database that handles linking between faculty records, course records and they live under a "master" department.  Editors for that master department can edit and link their own faculty/courses.  So that's quite a bit of specific relational functionality that may not easily fit in something so fluid as WP.  I'll check out role manager, though!

Thanks!

-Chuck

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Chuck Wyatt | Web Technical Services Manager

Clark University | 950 Main Street

Worcester | MA | 01610 | USA

Tel: +1-508-793-7535

www.clarku.edu

cwyatt at clarku.edu






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Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 12:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [wp-edu] Restricting authors to specific category posting

Chuck,

Not sure if you want a blog for each department, and then syndicate
them into an overall catalog blog with appropriate category for each
discipline, but the role manager plugin may be useful, or even the add
user sidebr widget with will allow users to add themselves to a blog,
and have specific permissions.

It's a cool idea, let me know how it works out.

Jim

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Chuck Wyatt <CWyatt at clarku.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I've been thinking about how using Wordpress to host our academic catalog
> may be a good next step.  Clark's catalog (www.clarku.edu/academiccatalog/ )
>  is a custom system that was coded from scratch in ColdFusion/MSSQL.  The
> administrative back end lets specific authors access/edit content only for
> their particular academic department.  So, in order for me to even consider
> doing something similar with WP, I'd need to have the capability to restrict
> authors to certain "areas" or categories which would correspond to their
> academic programs.  I've been looking for a plugin that would apply such a
> restriction, but so far haven't come across anything like it - and I haven't
> seen this as the default functionality in Wordpress 2.7.
>
>
>
> Thanks for any suggestions!
>
>
>
> Chuck Wyatt
>
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> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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> Chuck Wyatt | Web Technical Services Manager
>
> Clark University | 950 Main Street
>
> Worcester | MA | 01610 | USA
>
> Tel: +1-508-793-7535
>
> www.clarku.edu
>
> cwyatt at clarku.edu
>
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