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Hi there,

First let me apologize as I am sure this topic must have been covered somewhere previously. I have some basic html css and Ruby on Rails experience but have never used word(or buddy for that matter)press before. A friend is trying to get a web page up and running and requested my help and I unfortunately am a bit in over my head. I am trying to figure out if there is a way(plugin perhaps) that I can establish new users in specific roles. A user joins as an Artist, Venue, Business, or Subscriber. I want these roles to determine what information is displayed to them upon visiting the web page, restricting access to some users and expanding it for others.

Final functionality would also include some way of allowing Venues to search for artists based on genre, price range, and if they are “available”. Not sure if these are things I should create user “groups” for etc. I am aware this is a lot of questioning but I am very stretched right now and have been fumbling with this as I have no prior experience.

I would very much appreciate any advice, knowledge, references, suggestions, or even links to tutorials.

Thank you so much for your time and help, and I look forward to learning and expanding my understanding of this software.