How to develop a community feature in the dashboard for multiauthor site

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What I do for almost every site with multiple authors:

  1. Create a separate blog for meta discussions, for example meta.example.com.
  2. Use P2 as theme.
  3. Install Authenticator to allow access for members only.
  4. Install something like Inform about Content, so the members get an email whenever something new was posted. I probably wouldn’t do that for 300 members …

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.

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