I run a WordPress site that has more than 300 authors. Is it possible to create some type of community in the backend (dashboard)? Ideally, a space where the authors can discuss with each other in a thread type of system, with admin news and so on. The closest thing I could find was the Admin Microblog but by reading the description, it appears very limited.
I am quite surprised that there is not much backend community type of plugins, I would have imagined that the demand for such would be rather high. Anyone knows?
What I do for almost every site with multiple authors:
meta.example.com
.You could write a dashboard widget with the newsfeed for the meta blog like the Incoming Links and make it a MU Plugin to set it active on every new blog.
This works rather good; it requires almost no configuration, and even people with low technical skills understand it fast.
Not sure of the implications, but I use a custom menu and an
iframe
to have an external web app in the dashboard.