I have a company listing page for an association website. Each company will have 2 members as part of association. Is it possible to give both of them edit rights of their company (custom post type) ? If yes how do I do that? I see there is am option to show if they are post author but unable to figure out how can more then one be able to edit same post.
Hi, I have a few questions:
- Is "Members" a post type, or are members just WordPress Users?
- How are Members connected to Companies - post relationship? taxonomy? custom fields? custom role?
- Will Members have access to wp-admin, or will they be editing the Company posts with Forms on the front-end of the site?
- Member are normal WordPress Users
- They would be made author of that particular post
- No, I do not want to give WP-admin access to members. Want to do it through frontend form.
The site is still under development so if any change is needed to member for this feature can do it.
Your made me wonder, If I create a CPT for members, how will the have login etc like normal wordpress users? Is there are article or tutorial I can go through to create user using toolset plugin?
Your made me wonder, If I create a CPT for members, how will the have login etc like normal wordpress users
Login would still work the same way for Users, there will be an additional custom post type called "Members" that acts as a proxy for WordPress Users. Each Member post is linked to one User because the User is the author of that Member post.
Toolset post relationships and custom search Views are not available for Users. This proxy technique can be useful if you plan to connect Users and posts in many-to-many style relationships, or if you want to use parametric search to find Users. More information about it here: https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/how-to-create-custom-searches-and-relationships-for-users/
Proxies are easier to manage in the back-end of the site, but a repeating custom field that stores an ID reference is easier to use in Views filters and conditionals.
- They would be made author of that particular post
Unfortunately this is not possible because standard WordPress does not allow multiple post authors for the same post. Some other method of connecting Users and posts is necessary, like a proxy post, or a repeating custom field that stores an ID reference.
Thanks for explaining Christian. Will give the proxy method a try. Will I be able to have 2 authors if I do the proxy method mention above?
What ID reference needs to be stored in repeating custom field?
Is there any reference site for such membership by any chance?
Will I be able to have 2 authors if I do the proxy method mention above?
No, you still can't have 2 authors for a single post, but you can connect multiple Member posts to the same Company using a one-to-many or many-to-many post relationship.
What ID reference needs to be stored in repeating custom field?
You can create a repeating custom field on the Company post that holds User IDs. Store the numeric ID of each User who should have access to that Company.
Is there any reference site for such membership by any chance?
No, we have a reference site for membership based on custom User Role. On your site that approach would require custom roles for each Company. That can be quite difficult to manage as content grows on your site.
Thanks for clarifying Christian.
I guess I will have to drop the option and limit the edit right to just one user for now.
