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October 31, 2012, 12:08:05 am
Hi - I'm considering civi and concerned that  any users of civi on our WordPress instance also have write access to our website. Is there some way to give somebody access to civi without sharing write access to our website?

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Re: wordpress access control
October 31, 2012, 06:01:38 am
See http://civicrm.org/blogs/rajesh/wordpress-access-control
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Re: wordpress access control
October 31, 2012, 07:56:07 am
Hello fpthomas,

This issue is normally solved using permissions and ACLs (which allow you to set permissions based on the groups you assign your users to in CiviCRM). Drupal and Joomla both have this functionality, however, WordPress will not recieve it until CiviCRM version 4.3. I would suggest that you read up on ACLs, and play around with them on either the Joomla or Drupal demo sites.

This IMO is one of the coolest features of CiviCRM, because it gives you such fine tuned control ovr your contacts.

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Re: wordpress access control
October 31, 2012, 09:42:43 am

would also help a lot if your org can help contribute a few $$ towards completing and maintaining the wordpress ACL integration. the make it happen is here:

http://civicrm.org/content/make-it-happen#wpacl

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Re: wordpress access control
November 11, 2012, 12:20:39 am
Lobo -

 I am happy to contribute and would feel obligated to once I'm convinced that this is the solution for our school. That would mean we are up and running, students and families are imported, mail functionality is working, SMS functionality is working, forms are integrated into the site etc.  at that point, I'd feel like we were really using the system and should contribute. But I'm not there yet.  Right now, I'm stuck importing students Because it does not seem to have a grade field.

I look forward to getting to that point. And I appreciate your help.

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Re: wordpress access control
November 11, 2012, 09:19:17 am

A few comments:

1. You should definitely spend some time reading the book @ http://book.civicrm.org/user/ Has a lot of core concepts etc

2. CiviCRM does not have ALL the fields that all organizations need. There is a concept of custom groups and fields. The book has a lot more details on your data and data management

3. There is a training and developer camp in San Francisco of Tues, Nov 13. Definitely worth for someone from your school/parent to attend. Will save a lot of hours for you down the road. There is a fee associated with it but there are discounts available. So please ping us if needed

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