A preface to this, I don’t actually use WooCommerce so I can’t give anyone a specific answer to that, but Geovanni asks:
Im in a pinch. I have a woocommercesite and i want to make a part where i can have users who already registered can have their your own URL and page where they can make post. I read a post u made on http://wordpress.org/support/topic/allow-users-to-post-events-on-their-own-page?replies=6 ,but u didnt say anything about how u got it to work or if u have. Can you help me?
This was a post from two years ago, where someone asked the following:
I’m working on a WordPress site that will allow artists to post their own events. I can’t find a plugin that will allow these posts to link up to their own pages. Each user that registers has their own URL and this page has all of their information. I’m trying to make sure that the tour dates posted aren’t ending up on every users page!!
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I suggested that one could accomplish this with Custom Post Types, which was a theoretical remark, since I didn’t have the details, but when the OP later said “I need everyone to be able to create an event and post it on their own page…” I agreed it would probably be a better fit for Multisite, since they may have more than one of their own events.
So what did I mean about Custom Post Types? Well sometimes the answer is to think about the problem in different ways. Obviously the easiest thing in the world is to tell people ‘their’ page is http://example.com/author/name, and then have them post in a specific category (say… events). Thus all events are in an event group, and everyone has their own page. But I also know users can be a little confused by WordPress and categories, so you have some options here, when it comes to management.
First of all, there are plugins like Restrict Categories, which let you restrict users to a category. That works, but if you don’t want the URLs to have
/category/
in the slug for just that one thing, you really do need to look at Custom Post Types. That leads us down the road of things like AAM – Advanced Access Manager which will let you make a custom role for ‘Event Manager’ who can perhaps manage all events, and ‘Event Poster’ who can only post.
All this does highlight a flaw/annoyance in WordPress, and that is complex roles. WordPress’s role system is, at once, stupid simple and crazy complex. It’s a total headache to restrict people to specific areas, and in general, I hate having to do it because I find I spend more time messing with that than I do working on the site. At the same time, I dislike giving people more ‘power’ than they need. I can’t make a person a ‘comment moderator’ without giving them access to write/edit posts, for example, which is not a far-fetched wish. You can use plugins, like Disqus, to do that, but that means you’ve offloaded comments, and I don’t like that.
Of course… for the question posited by Geovanni the answer is “Use WordPress Multisite.” Install WordPress, activate Multisite, give the user a site, let them go to town.
That, of course, may not answer all his questions.
