multi user hack

[angryrabbit]

Hi all,

Hoping someone can give me a pointer - I'm looking at setting up my second S9y install but beginning to wonder whether it is the best solution; in other words, I'm perhaps looking for guidance on possible plug-ins / hacks which will allow this.

The end result is to power a blog set-up for a charity; they want to open up a blog platform for their participants. In the past, I've worked on blog systems with multiple users contributing to the same blog, in this case, we want the same backend powering individual blogs (so each user has their own blog and profile page).

Is something like that possible? I'm super rushed for time on this so something quick 'n' dirty may be best! Thanks for reading


Cheers,
Andy

[kleinerChemiker]

It is possible with some hacking. See http://www.s9y.org/41.html

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

I believe what might be more usable is the plugin "Extended properties/templates" for categories" (Serendipity_event_categorytemplates).

With that, each category can have its distinct look. When using the serendipity_event_sidebarhider plugin, you can also manage which sidebar plugins should be shown on which category.

Then you simply create one category for each author, all set up with the read/write privileges only for the specific author, and then you have one large blog with all contents, but also "sub-blogs" for each category, that can even have different templates/styles.

That's actually the closest you can bet by using ONE backend to power multiple sub-sites.

The shared installation that kleinerChemiker mentioned is a cool way to have many STANDALONE blogs, but all using a single installation. But this means, that each blog also has its own database.

Regards,
Garvin