Wordpress

[silverfoxcc]

I have been tasked with the being the' Moderator/overseer/general factotum' of the clubs website as the original chap has departed this mortal coil

The site id mostlry 'public informstion' but i would like to add a members only section ( pw protected) that has a sales/wants section, forum, and back numbers of the newsletters that can onlty be accessed by members

I have been looking on Ebay for Wordpress dummies books and wonder if either 'Wordpress for Dummies','Wordpress Web design for Dummies' or 'Wordpress all in one for dummies' OR even all three would give me enough info to set up this addition 'add on'

Thanks in advance

I have got the Dummies Autocad and found that quite easy to use. so hopefully the Wordpress ones are just as easy

[dapprman]

Wordpress without add-ons will allow you to set a password for a page, but then anyone with that password can get access.
If you are using wordpress.com and have a high enough subscription, else are using a hosting package else where that allows plugins (I used 34sp.com for something I am in, and a more basic wordpress.com subscription for myself) then there are free options though I've not tried any myself.

[Turtle Shed]

Can't you just let all of your members have their own login and then set whichever pages you want to protect to 'private'?

[Captain_Morgan]

For the forum aspect you’d do worse than look at discourse as a platform.

Here’s a overview you might find useful.

https://lawrencesystems.com/review-the-open-source...

[Pistom]

Captain_Morgan said:

For the forum aspect you’d do worse than look at discourse as a platform.

Here’s a overview you might find useful.

https://lawrencesystems.com/review-the-open-source...

Thank you for this - very useful.

[eeLee]

Ensure Wordfence is installed as a plugin and turned on.
Create random usernames and strong passwords for admin accounts; add MFA (Wordfence supports this) if you think you need it.

Edited by eeLee on Wednesday 21st December 10:07