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Moving from ColdFusion to CiviCrm
July 31, 2013, 07:58:32 am
Right now I have a database driven site and want to move to Wordpress so that others can update it.  I don't want to lose all my membership programming though.

I want to know if CiviCrm has the possibility to do what I do in Coldfusion

An online database of members by specific type (ie: only Businesses, not Individual members)
Paid members get a more intensive listing than unpaid members
Field to incorporate Latitude and Longitude for Google Maps.
Event listing page (deletes after date is over)
Downloadable file - I print and mail membership renewals
I would like to incorporate this with Wordpress
Ability to restrict admins of the site so they cannot enter membership database.

Just a few of the needs I have - Thanks for your help!

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Re: Moving from ColdFusion to CiviCrm
July 31, 2013, 11:27:23 am
Hi Serval,

Very quickly:


An online database of members by specific type (ie: only Businesses, not Individual members)
Yes.

Paid members get a more intensive listing than unpaid members
99% sure yes - I can definitely do this with Drupal/CiviCRM, I assume there's a way for Wordpress/CiviCRM to do this also.

Field to incorporate Latitude and Longitude for Google Maps.
Yes.  If you enable it, CiviCRM will automatically enter the lat/long based on address.

Event listing page (deletes after date is over)
It won't delete the page automatically, though you can set up Wordpress to not display it publicly after a certain date.

Downloadable file - I print and mail membership renewals
Yes.

I would like to incorporate this with Wordpress
Yes.

Ability to restrict admins of the site so they cannot enter membership database.
It depends on what you mean by "admin".  A full administrator has access to everything - you can create accounts that can edit Wordpress but not CiviCRM though.
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Re: Moving from ColdFusion to CiviCrm
July 31, 2013, 08:36:25 pm
Everything you require is doable, though I'd suggest you go with Drupal instead of Wordpress. The permissioning and feature set is much better in Drupal.

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Re: Moving from ColdFusion to CiviCrm
August 01, 2013, 06:20:56 am

Note that in recent releases from a permissioning perspective, all 3 CMS'es have the exact same CiviCRM permissioning system

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Re: Moving from ColdFusion to CiviCrm
August 05, 2013, 04:40:53 am
Quote from: serval on July 31, 2013, 07:58:32 am
Right now I have a database driven site and want to move to Wordpress so that others can update it.  I don't want to lose all my membership programming though.

You will not lose the functionality you have, and in reality you will gain approximately a thousand fold more features. :)
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