Mi brother start working in an education organization. He and his team will have a proof of concept related to adopt some physical educations methodologies to our country. So, as I see everything as a change to develop something interesting, I said : Do you need a system for your proof of concept?. The answer was : Yes I need a simple page to register, students, teachers and admins to create student records.

Which are my options to do that calling to my experience ?

• Frontend (Simple pages)
  • Develop some java classes with java server pages framework (deprecated)
  • Jquery
  • React & Angular
  • Some CMS
• Backend (Simple CRUD)
  • Java
  • NodeJs
  • Python
  • C++
• Database
  • Mysql of course!!
  • Mongodb
  • Firebase (I only read one post about this)
• Security
  • Login
  • Create users
  • Create roles
  • Create mapping between user and roles
  • Create mapping between pages and roles

In this post I want to show you how to achieve this requirements in a simple way. I hope this could help you in a mockup design, MVP or simple system.

Install wordpress

In my next post I will show you how configurate a wordpress site using one my prefered platforms : openshift

Wordpress plugins

This are the required plugins:

• Page Restrict
  • Set login as requirement to page access
• Remove Dashboard Access
  • Disable dashboard wordpress for users
• Restrict Content by Role
  • Choose who can view a page
• User Role Editor
  • Create roles

Steps

Create a new role using “User Role Editor” plugin

Create some users using wordpress web console (plugin not required) and select a role

Create some pages using wordpress web console (plugin not required) and :

• Set restriction page in order to force login for this page

• Restrict acces by role

For example , in the previous image , only users with my_custom_role and administrator role could access to this page.

• Restrict Access to Content and Sub Content

• Configure a custom error page with a message like : “you don’t have access to this page”

Tests

For this example :

• I have an user with role manager
• I have page called “mantenimiento” with force login and only accessed by role manager.

Test 01 : No logged user try to access to “mantenimiento” page

Result : User is redirected to error page

Test 02 : Logged user without manager role try to access to “mantenimiento” page

Result : User is redirected to error page

Test 03 : Logged user with manager role try to access to “mantenimiento” page

Result : User can access to “mantenimiento” page

Until the next,
JRichardsz