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1tess on "Splitting blogs into sections"

1tess — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:32:38 +0000

Use a custom menu so that the categories will appear in your navigation bar.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/

footballcomesfirst on "Splitting blogs into sections"

footballcomesfirst — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:18:32 +0000

Is there a way of having these categories appear on the homepage to make them more accessible?

justjennifer on "Splitting blogs into sections"

justjennifer — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:08:54 +0000

That's what categories and tags do.

See here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/

footballcomesfirst on "Splitting blogs into sections"

footballcomesfirst — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:02:01 +0000

I'd like to create sections so I can separate my blogs into different groups.

Is this possible with a non-premium theme?

Thanks.

permaculturepeople on "Can I have only 10 contributors?"

permaculturepeople — Thu, 24 May 2012 13:14:58 +0000

Yeah just got it auxclass. Sorry for my inane question. My excuse is it's late at night!!!

Thanks again

auxclass on "Can I have only 10 contributors?"

auxclass — Thu, 24 May 2012 13:04:22 +0000

I think the invite form only has room for 10 invites - invite 10 then 10 more again - repeat as required - the limit per invite form is an anti-spam thing

permaculturepeople on "Can I have only 10 contributors?"

permaculturepeople — Thu, 24 May 2012 13:01:40 +0000

So, once I invite 10 then there is some way to keep inviting? Or can people contribute somehow without an invite? Thanks auxclass.

permaculturepeople on "Can I have only 10 contributors?"

permaculturepeople — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:58:34 +0000

Forget to tick notify me of follow ups by email box, so doing that now. Thanks

auxclass on "Can I have only 10 contributors?"

auxclass — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:58:18 +0000

You can only invite 10 people at a time I think - there is no limit to the number of contributors

permaculturepeople on "Can I have only 10 contributors?"

permaculturepeople — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:55:16 +0000

My blog is for a group of maybe 40 - 50 people and as far as I can see only 10 people can be contributors. How can I allow all these people to post they're own content and have me as administrator? Or is a blog not the right option for our group? Any help much appreciated.

dividedskies on "Wordpress Groups"

dividedskies — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:03:51 +0000

yep, im aware of em but theyre pretty far from what i meant with the groups. Imagine in there was a page for groups, where you can search for and make groups.
Lets use your blog for an example. you blog is about boating. you would be able to search for groups like (or used to be able to search for tags) tags, then you join a group you like called "Boating Enthusiasts". On the group page, theres a showcase of freshly pressed posts from members of the group all pertaining to boating because the members' blogs are all boating blogs (you could set rules i suppose per group). then on the bottom theres a discussion panel with threads like in flickr. so people could have boating specific conversations on the site.

itd be a great way to get people who want to be active together. more effective than searching for blogs through tags. also more community.

auxclass on "Wordpress Groups"

auxclass — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:39:16 +0000

There is the Off Topic and Showcase Forums here that you can ask for general feedback or brag about your site.

dividedskies on "Wordpress Groups"

dividedskies — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:21:12 +0000

It'd be helpful in getting people together and creating more community if there were groups on wordpress (I'm thinking something like flickr's groups). That way people can join groups of similar interests and facilitate dialogue. I specifically want it for photo criticism and having a dialogue on ideas on photography i post about. other people may create a "Critique My Poetry" group or something where people join and look at other blogs inthe group and critique each other.

thesacredpath on "Organise users to groups, each group with access on some articles"

thesacredpath — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:52:38 +0000

You are welcome.

grmedsite on "Organise users to groups, each group with access on some articles"

grmedsite — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:50:15 +0000

Thanks. This is OK for me.

thesacredpath on "Organise users to groups, each group with access on some articles"

thesacredpath — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:46:27 +0000

We cannot say for sure without a link to the blog in question. With self-hosted wordpress blogs this would be possible via a membership plugin, but at wordpress.COM, we cannot use plugins, so it is not possible here.

grmedsite on "Organise users to groups, each group with access on some articles"

grmedsite — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:38:23 +0000

Hello,
I have three types of articles: type 1, type 2 and type 3.
My users access one or more of the above article types.
What is the recommended approach to implement this? Using usergroups? How do I enforce that some usergroups access only some articletypes?

Many thanks in advance.

lance on "Which themes work best for a group of users?"

lance — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:58:44 +0000

Hi krisvannest,
We have plans to eventually have a more feature-rich editor on the front end, where you can edit tags and delete the post. Categories from the front-end aren't in the plan, though, nor is editing images. Image editing is too complex at this time to be done from the quick-post area on the front end.

But, don't give up yet—I've seen a lot of activity around this on the WordPress.org forums, you can take a look by search on the P2 "tag": http://wordpress.org/tags/p2. There are companies and individuals who've modified P2 to add category pickers and other features, so you might be able to ask them how they managed it.

Hope that helps, and thanks for your post.

krisvannest on "Which themes work best for a group of users?"

krisvannest — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:17:35 +0000

Hi Lance et al, this is one of the first places I found for P2 support so here goes-- does anyone know if the following will be supported in P2:

(1) adding/selecting "categories" (not just tags) to a front page Blog post (looks like categories can only be added in dashboard?),

(2) editing tags, images, etc once a front-page Blog post is made-- currently, it doesn't seem like I can edit a post from P2 once I submit (I have to go back into the dashboard)

We're also looking to make a collaborative group blog and P2 is *almost* there! But the above the features-- or lack thereof-- makes it almost unsuitable. Problem is that I can't seem to find another theme that does group collab even close without going back to Drupal etc.

thx KV

zebathome on "Which themes work best for a group of users?"

zebathome — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:04:15 +0000

Thanks 1tess! I'll pass this all on and we'll see how it goes, maybe one day someone will fix the bugs and or make a better group blog theme, in the meantime I am grateful as always for wordpress's existence!

1tess on "Which themes work best for a group of users?"

1tess — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:20:23 +0000

Ah, yes, linked images will work in the dashboard. And posting from the dashboard is just the same as it is in any other theme. You can upload or link to as many pictures as you like. In the dashboard.

The workaround and the exceptions only apply to posting directly to the front page.

If members of your group understand that they should post from the dashboard, and not from the front page, then they should not have problems using P2 and adding pictures.

It is the front page which has the bug (and the workaround should work, or perhaps it is as lance suggested: that it is an issue with the browser you are using). It is the front page only where you can't add images to a post via url link.

zebathome on "Which themes work best for a group of users?"

zebathome — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:36:38 +0000

I just went back to the test blog and put a flickr link in to a quick press post and it works ok... came out a bit small but the image is there....

zebathome on "Which themes work best for a group of users?"

zebathome — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:28:16 +0000

The workaround doesn't work on the front page for me, but it's easy to post more than one image into a dashboard generated post in P2. I used a photobucket link for one trial and a direct upload to the library for the other. Worked fine. I didn't need to go into code, and in fact I cut and pasted a whole email with links to You Tube videos into a post and they are all embedded nicely in the post much to my surprise, which is why I thought this had potential!

1tess on "Which themes work best for a group of users?"

1tess — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:11:41 +0000

@zebathome

Just to clarify I was adding to what lance said, not saying the workaround for the bug dosen't work.

1. I was pointing out that you can't use Flkr for your pictures on P2: they must be uploaded to the library.

2. Adding more than one picture to a post is rather complicated, involving pasting html code…

zebathome on "Which themes work best for a group of users?"

zebathome — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:47:47 +0000

I don't know if we are 'linear thinkers sharing typing,' more a bunch of people with a shared hobby, varied backgrounds and levels of education and computer knowledge thinking that this might be useful to us. The live update feature is really neat and I like the democratic way you can have everyone as authors.

I was simply looking for a way for 12 or so folk to communicate quickly, in real time, for a few weeks leading up to a shared event, rather than use round robin emails and so on. This looked on the surface like a plausible solution for our specific needs, a democratic group space, not a forum run by anyone in particular, low admin once up and running, no moderation much required etc etc. This theme, or even wordpress itself may not be it, but it was worth a try and we may use it anyway as time is short. I wouldn't swap my main blog to this, but then that's not what I was looking to do.

timethief on "Which themes work best for a group of users?"

timethief — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:06:14 +0000

I hate it also - yuck!

raincoaster on "Which themes work best for a group of users?"

raincoaster — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:00:50 +0000

You see why I hate P2?

It's terrific for linear thinkers who are sharing typing. It's a decent replacement for a forum. Otherwise? Not so much.

And it's not a good reader experience, either.

zebathome on "Which themes work best for a group of users?"

zebathome — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:31:58 +0000

I'm using Firefox 3.6.8 on an Imac. I have retried several times to use your workaround Lance and it really didn't work. Maybe it's my browser like you say. Sorry :(

I like the idea of the theme too, I like its simplicity. Thanks for trying to sort it out all :)

timethief on "Which themes work best for a group of users?"

timethief — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:20:52 +0000

Is there a faq for this theme anywhere that I can read without bothering you guys?

No I'm sorry there isn't. :(

lance on "Which themes work best for a group of users?"

lance — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:20:22 +0000

@zebathome

The closest thing we have to an FAQ is http://p2theme.com/ -- documentation for themes is area that we know needs work. :)

The Status, Blog Post, Quote, and Link are different types of posts. When you click the various types you'll see how the input fields change; Link is designed to share a link to something interesting. They are also styled a bit differently: Status won't show the post title, whereas Blog Post does. Quote styles the post a bit differently. Now that I look at it, Link acts much like Status.

Here is a site you can play with: http://p2demo.wordpress.com/ if you don't want to set up your own.

I just tried an image upload there (using the steps I detailed earlier), and it worked. If you get a blank page, that could be a browser bug -- could you tell us what browser version you use?

Overall P2 is a great theme, and very nice for quick updates. As with all our themes, we will continue to improve it and make it better... so thanks for the feedback.