Collaborative Wordpress!

April 18, 2008 3:15 PM

I've recently moved my blog to a collaborative environment and we're using Wordpress (and I have been for over a year now), but I'm having trouble figuring out a way for us to work that is as seamless as possible with the Wordpress install. I need some help figuring out what tools to use!

We need the following: a way to communicate privately which includes a way to quickly share links and other post ideas. But what I'm wanting is something rather organic and streamlined, not perpetual drafts and such as a way to communicate.

Wordpress has a nice "editing" feature but that's where it ends. Unfortunately, I've not had any luck finding any plugins that can help this process and currently I'm using Ning as a backend to the site. I'd really prefer to keep it all in one place, however.

Thanks!

posted by Gideon to computers & internet (7 comments total)

Whilst I can't think of a way to avoid perpetual drafts, you could all get del.icio.us accounts, and use the tag for:user to share links. You could probably mark the links as private as well, so that they wouldn't show up on your main del.icio.us profile. I'm not sure if ma.gnolia or any others have a similar feature. Or use twitter, and use an @user command.
posted by djgh at 3:29 PM on April 18

Part of the problem is we need it to be open to everyone, so direct lines of communication will be come cumbersome. There's also a need for records that something like a forum allows.

In an ideal world I'd like to see something like Tumblr but with comments in the dashboard of wordpress.
posted by Gideon at 3:31 PM on April 18

[Link to blog removed. List it in your profile if you want people to be able to check it out.]
posted by cortex at 3:38 PM on April 18

So, uh, add the Forums plugin to your blog and limit access to the authors?
posted by DarlingBri at 3:51 PM on April 18

We need the following: a way to communicate privately which includes a way to quickly share links and other post ideas. But what I'm wanting is something rather organic and streamlined, not perpetual drafts and such as a way to communicate.

I'm not sure what you mean by organic and streamlined, but this sounds like a password-protected wiki.
posted by theiconoclast31 at 4:23 PM on April 18

I think the WordPress designers wanted something like what you describe, because they created a theme they called Prologue, which may be what you're looking for.
posted by WCityMike at 6:02 PM on April 18

Ah, that's beautiful!! Not perfect, but very close.... thanks so much!
posted by Gideon at 7:00 PM on April 18