Multi-user blog?

Hello, A client has asked me to build a multi-user blog, each user would be able to create and edit their own posts (not edit each others' posts). They'd be able to upload files to their own private file space, etc. They'd also be able to edit their profile and this would be displayed on the frontend.

I haven't got my head around Revo user management just yet though would such a thing be viable and easily managed from the Manager?

Any thoughts, links or tips would be appreciated.

Thanks.

I guess the first fork in the road is deciding if you want these authors to create content posts from the front end or the back end?

I have gotten the front end option to work with NewsPublisher via logged in users. I also like the Articles suite but that is all backend via the Manager. Articles is a powerful blog system though.

But you will need to wrap your head around Login, User Groups, Users, Document Groups and Access etc...

It's a big job no matter how you do it. I think I'd try to use Articles for that, and put each user's posts in a separate folder. You can limit the user to his or her own folder by making all other resources hidden in the tree.

You'll also want to customize the Manager to limit the user's actions and to provide a simple interface.

NewsPublisher would be simpler to set up, but you'd be missing a lot of the power of Articles for things like creating archives, using tags, and allowing comments.

Here's something else you should probably consider. I've never used it, but you could probably theme it to look like the MODX site and just link to it: http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_MU



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I'm in for the path of least pain on this job and I can knock this together relatively quickly on Wordpress so thanks for the advice as always!