Manipulating posts
<p>I'm beginning to help a new nonprofit create a website. I'd thought that I might use WordPress.com, just to speed things up and to have someone else keep track of maintenance and security. As I look into what the group wants, however, I'm realizing that a lot of doesn't seem to be native to WordPress. </p>

<p>They want to have users sort through posts (no problem with Categories and Tags), but then users should be able to submit their own posts, which after approval would then be sortable and selectable as well. I know that there are user types that would allow this piece, but they're kind of clunky. And of course there are also plugins, if I decide to use downloadable WordPress and worry about updating the thing.</p>

<p>Ideally, users would also select their favorite posts and collect them into some sort of document. I don't know of a way to do this in WordPress.</p>

<p>I can code all of this myself and just have a WordPress site point to it (I think!), but then the maintenance and security advantages fade. </p>

<p>It seems that I might be best off just starting from the ground up (probably using RoR), but I'm wondering if anyone either knows of a good way to manipulate WordPress into doing what I need, or perhaps knows of a CMS that might help me get a quick start and then accommodate some of the extra functionality I'm looking for?</p>

<p>Thanks! </p>