General Questions/New to Joomla! 5.x • Building the ultimate author website

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.

Statistics: Posted by Caliburn — Sat Nov 09, 2024 6:01 am

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