: Using WordPress for large collaborative site I work for a government agency, and we're thinking about creating a new, fairly large site using WordPress as the platform. It would involve allowing

@Kimberly868

Check out the Wordpress page on User Roles it defines what each role can do:


There are four roles for users that you wish to add to your blog: Administrator, Editor, Author, and Contributor.

Important: Please be careful of the roles you give users on your blog. If you add a user as an administrator, you are granting full ownership rights to him/her. This means that if he/she deletes the blog and/or its content, there is no wrongdoing. For this reason, we recommend having only one administrator per blog


For a full description of the roles see the help page.

If possible assign people to the lowest level role possible, don't be tempted to make everyone an editor for example.

The fewer people there are with rights to make large and permanent changes the less chance there is that they'll get in each other's way.

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@Kristi941

There are many large sites running Wordpress.

Setup is a breeze.

Maintenance (bugs and security) is taken care of by the Wordpress community.

Make sure to get a good caching add on. These make a big difference.

Security however is a downside. Lately (last couple months) many sites have been hacked.I am not sure how large of concern this is, but it could be a problem.

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