Access Control by Category

I’m thinking of using WordPress as the basis for a suite of applications to manage a site for Small 2 Medium enterprises and consultancies.

The application will have the following set of functionality:

• user management
• time management: record time spend on projects
• client management: manage the clients that the company has
• project management: manage the projects that we’re doing for a company (e.g. files for a lawyer etc)
• invoice management:
• expense recording:
• bank account reconciliation
• Extranet and intranet Content Management

As a lawyer, I have a reasonable number of clients. Within each client there are a reasonable number of individuals who pass me instructions. It is definitely the case that some matters are confidential within the organisation. So one member of staff would not have access to the information a particular project.

I am hoping to use categories as the method of limiting access to particular posts. To be implemented as a plugin, of course.

For the other functions: i’ll probably write these as core php applets and render the dynamic content through Exec-PHP or a similar plugin via Pages. So everything stays neatly extensible through the WP management interface. And of course fully portable due to the use of SQLITE to handle the data recording!

Timelines: hmmmm….