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Posted: Thursday Aug 30th, 2012 at 11:37 pm #23631 | |
Hi there, I’ve been reading some of your documentation and watching videos but there’s something I’m still unclear about regarding a multisite setup. I’m not sure if I should do a regular or a blog farm install. What I need to do: This site/network will offer customers monthly paid subscriptions where each customer would get one site of their own. Customers will never need the ability to create more blogs/sites themselves (and we don’t want them to) but, after registration, a new site needs to be created for them. Ideally, new sites would be created automatically after a successful payment. There will not be multiple levels of access, just one level which gives them acces to their own site, the main site (blog 1) and another “Support” site which will be accessible to all paying customers. The main site will have some documentation on the service my client offers and other protected content. Besides the front page which will have some introductory text and a login form, the main site will contain only protected/non-public pages only accessible to paying users (and network admins of course). On the “Support” site, customers will be able to post tickets and access a knowledgebase (I’ll be using WooThemes’ SupportPress app theme on that site). Both the main site’s content and the Support site will be accessible to all paying customers. The support site will be entirely protected too with no public content besides a login form if users access it directly without being connected. On either the main or support site, users will not be able to create any content other than posting tickets on the support site (Supportpress needs users to be part of a specific role to do so but I assume I can modify roles with s2Members or Justin Tadlock’s Members plugin to do that?) On their own site, customers will be able to create pages and posts (and some custom post types) but, other than that, their access will be quite limited (they shouldn’t be real admins on their own site and should not be able to install or modify plugins, themes of modify the site in any way other than adding content (media, pages, posts, custom posts). So I think that’s the gist of it. I’d appreciate any pointers about how to go with this but, most importantly for now, I need to know if I should setup s2Member as a blog farm in the Multisite Configuration page or not (I’m leaning on no but would like a solid answer ;). After that I’ll probably be able to figure a lot on my own but may have to ask your help again :) Thank you!
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