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Caliburn
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Building the ultimate author website

Post by Caliburn » Sat Nov 09, 2024 6:01 am

Hi there. I'm looking at Joolma! to build an author website. My background is all Wordpress.
Specifically, I'm interested in the following functionality for my dream author website.
  • Blogging, including different topics. Does it have different RSS feeds for different categories or does everyone use the one list?
  • List of books/book template. I'd like to display a list of my books using a template, with a seperate page for each one
  • Potential online store, perhaps merged with each book page.
  • Ability to manage book chapters/serial fiction. So each chapter is in chronological order, with little arrows to the next chapter in the book, as well as to an index page. It would be good if this navigation could be done automatically rather than manually.
  • Membership function with subscribers. Paid subscribers could see certain pages depending on their tier level. Kind of like self-hosted patreon.
  • Newsletter functionality. Ability to send emails to subscribers in different tiers, or to email everyone in a general tier. For bonus points subscribers can pick what sort of categories they want to subscribe to on the website. I have a set up with Amazon SES so far.
Can J5 do this out of the box? Or are there recommended extensions/themes you'd use to cover these use cases? Any example author/bookish/fiction websites?

Thanks.
Last edited by toivo on Sat Nov 09, 2024 6:07 am, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: mod note: typo in subject

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Per Yngve Berg
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Re: Building the ultimate author website

Post by Per Yngve Berg » Sat Nov 09, 2024 10:02 am

All the above can be done with some extensions.

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Re: Building the ultimate author website

Post by Caliburn » Sun Nov 10, 2024 11:03 pm

Thanks, Per. Are there any specific extensions you'd recommend? For example, I've looked around for something that would handle the serial fiction component, but could find anything specific.

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Re: Building the ultimate author website

Post by Webdongle » Mon Nov 11, 2024 12:15 am

Have a look at Phoca https://extensions.joomla.org/instant-s ... y%5D=phoca
They may have some that are not listed on jed yet https://www.phoca.cz/download
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