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I've done a search on "register" and taken a look but I didn't see the exact answer so please bear with me if this is a stupid question.

I would like to create a site that present one open page and requires registration to see the rest of the site. This is a site that will offer downloadable files, images etc for trade partners of my prospective customer.

I am wondering if s9y would be a viable choice for this by using static pages, a heavily modified blog and various HTML bloc plugins? In other words, this site is more CMS than blog.

Comments? Thanks in advance

Hi!

Plugin "User Self-Registration", serendipity_event_adduser.

You can use the downloadmanager plugin then on that site.

However, I personally wouldn'T choose s9y as a platform for this, and rather check for a "real" downloadmanaager application. Those have far more features than the basic s9y plugin.

Regards,
Garvin

garvinhicking wrote: However, I personally wouldn'T choose s9y as a platform for this, and rather check for a "real" downloadmanaager application. Those have far more features than the basic s9y plugin.

Garvin, you of all people would know! However, the download part is not the main thing. In fact, I could do that separately and just use the user database table to authenticate, or not even authenticate at all (the downloads are not secret). The main thing is having different pages, news, featured articles, etc. I am always tempted to use serendipity for these kinds of things because I know I can reach someone here for help (ahem) and I know how to hack it once I have the features working.

I forgot to mention that the number of registered users would be between 100-500 or so. Would that overwhelm the plugin?

Thanks for your reply!

Hi!

500 users should be alright. The question is more the amount of articles you have. When using protected categories, the SQL load is quite high and people with more than 10000 articles tend to get performance issues.

Regards,
Garvin