[Chris Higgins]

Hi there,

I'm hoping someone here may have had some experience with this kind of project.

I've been asked to add a "members area" to an existing Wordpress website. My client runs a private education organisation (for children with learning difficulties), and is looking to create an area for her staff and clients (the childrens parents) to interact.

She has given me a brief outline of the main functionality that she requires. There is no cost to join the site, but it's only for clients and teachers/trainers (her staff), so access will be restricted to those people and managed by my client.

This is a rough overview of the required functionality:

ADMINISTRATOR

- Administrator access to all content, both from teachers/trainers and parents.
- Ability to approve/deny registrations.
- Ability to edit/manage/delete profiles when necessary.

TEACHERS/TRAINERS

- Can easily create a personal profile that can be accessed (from the front end) by parents group.
- Ability to update this profile easily.
- Ability to post schedule/times available (calendar functionality, preferably).
- Ability to browse parent profile listings.

PARENTS

- Can easily create a personal profile that can be accessed (from the front end) by teachers/trainers, but not visible to others in the parents group.
- Ability to update this profile easily.
- Ability to browse teacher/trainer profile listings.


So far I've downloaded BuddyPress and WP Member (http://www.wp-member.com/), but finding both of them confusing. If someone can give me an indication of which one I should be focusing my efforts on, that would be a massive help. Alternatively, if there's another plugin that would be better suited to my needs, I'd love to hear about that too.

Thanks so much, in advance.

Cheers,

Chris

[brightonmike]

Buddypress should be fine.

[mantis]

You could try User Access Manager but I don't know how easy it is to use. Anyway it seems to fit your criteria.