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Hi there

I’m thinking each blogger should be a member so they can log in to the admin cp and create/edit/delete entries.

But I can’t get my head around how to structure EE so each member would have their own main “page” with profile info, entries, etc. and pages off of that with archived entries.

Although hurts to do so, I’d describe what my client want’s as a MySpace-type site :red:

Would Solspace’s “User” module be a good purchase or can this kind of thing be done out of the box?

Not familiar with Myspace at all :(

Really depends on how many and how strict you want to be. If minimal contributors with fairly relaxed/honour based roles I would think that creating a series of groups/templates could achieve this… my basic thinking is this:

10 Contributors
10 Template Groups
- Profile template, Index template, View-all template & Single View template.
Channels
- Homepage Channel - Hold particular custom fields relevant to a members “homepage”
- Profile Channel - Hold particular custom fields relevant to a members “profile”
- Blog Entry Channel - All entries live here with categories reflection whos profile the entry should be assigned.

Setting up a generic template for each would be simple enough and hard code at the top some global vars
member_id
category_name
whatever_else_you need

Then do a whole bunch of includes passing the corresponding variables to the includes

USER is a handy module and we’ve employed it to good effect and a few recent projects but nothing like your describing.

Be interested to see the feedback for this one 😊

Hi Chief,

Kind of see where you’re going with that, and thanks for your suggestions.

But I eventually need to hand the site off for non-technical people to be able to add/remove new ‘bloggers’ at will — that’s not going to be possible if what (I think) you’re suggesting is an individual template group for each blogger, is it?

I’ve tried a simpler description of my problem here:

http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/186170/

Hi, madebysplendid.

The link Mark posts about in your other thread is the best way to handle multiple authors, and keeps you within the license restrictions. Let’s continue the discussion there.