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nemoinsula on "Problems Replying to Posts"

nemoinsula — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:37:54 +0000

A) I sent a post without a title. The site refused it and I lost it all.

B) I created a PUBLIC blog, but nobody can post a reply without signing up to a WordPress account. This is unnecessary, surely?

C) I created another, PRIVATE blog and mailed specific people inviting them to join. Once again, they cannot join unless they open an account. However, I specifically invited them through their email address. This should surely be sufficient?

1tess on "One page for a class - all must get a blog?"

1tess — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:02:17 +0000

I'm assuming the blog linked above is not the one you are asking about, and also that your classroom blog will be private.

Each student will need a username but does not need to have a blog. You then invite the students, up to 10 at a time, to become readers of the blog. They will be able to comment on posts you write.

http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

3 I would like my blog to be visible only to users I choose – Select this option to create a private blog. If you want others to be able to view your private blog (and add comments, if you’ve enabled them) you’ll need to invite them to be a viewer.

also this:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/#invite-people-to-view-your-private-blog

sakuratouch on "One page for a class - all must get a blog?"

sakuratouch — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:59:20 +0000

Hello -

I wanted to introduce my class to wordpress.com by creating a class page to increase communication for assignments. However, during a session with one student to create a how-to-guide, I became aware that each student would be forced to create a blog. This will overwhelm some of the students due to age, and others simply don't have time. Is it possible to have people become members and leave comments with out setting up a blog? In addition, I requested to follow the blog with a different e-mail. This blog never showed up and I was pushed to create a blog.

If every person must be a wordpress blog user, this will grossly limit my audience.

pervfageln on "Linking Issues"

pervfageln — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:59:33 +0000

Hi raincoaster, I wasn't aware of that so thanks for your help.

raincoaster on "Linking Issues"

raincoaster — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:13:02 +0000

Well, posting content of this kind is against the terms of service at WordPress.com, so I suggest you abandon the attempt.

The content is provided to you specifically so that they can capture the email addresses of your readers and make them sign up. That is why they do not provide a direct link to read the whole article.

pervfageln on "Linking Issues"

pervfageln — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:45:11 +0000

Hello, In many of my posts I am linking to articles on a website that requires you to long in and be a member in order to view the article. However, it does allow you to post them on WordPress.

My problem is that when you click on the link, it does not take you to the article, it asks if you want to become a member.

How do you make sure the link always goes straight to the post rather than redirecting to a page that asks you to become a member?

Thanks for any help!

timethief on "User management plugin that allows multiple forms"

timethief — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:57:23 +0000

If you require plugins then you will have to hire a web host and set up your own WordPress.org install. There is no FTP access to free hosted WordPress.COM blogs like the one linked to your username and we cannot install individual plugins or third party themes into them. Those found on the internet are for WordPress.ORG installs which run on different software.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/
For clarity read > http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

scotschechner on "User management plugin that allows multiple forms"

scotschechner — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:34:51 +0000

I'm loooking for a plugin (pr multiple plugins that can work together) that will allow me to have multiple forms beyond a simple registration form, with each automatically including member ID (or email address.) The goal is to allow members to come back and provide additional information on various topics.

Example:
My registration form may include basic information, but later on, I may want to ask members to tell me which of several products they would like to know more about. After that, I may want additional demographic information (i.e. age and zip code) and after that, I may go back and ask about several more products. The goal is to create in depth user profiles to allow for increasingly customized email newsletters. I can create the newsletters outside of WordPress - I just need a way to gather all of the information.

Any ideas?

timethief on "Need a theme for a network site."

timethief — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:58:14 +0000

The number of members we have on a WordPress.com blog is not a theme dependent issue. All themes can be viwwed in the Themes Showcase where there are filters for feature searches and live demo sites for each theme.

cursusiceland on "Need a theme for a network site."

cursusiceland — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:26:41 +0000

Hi.
I am organizing a international network, with 50+ members. I need a template free or pro, hosted with wordpress, that contains such an option. Where can I find it or how to create it.?

Greetings.

Gudmundur

timethief on "How can followers add images?"

timethief — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:55:04 +0000

There are four roles that you can assign to people who you want to blog with: Administrator, Editor, Author, and Contributor. Note that Contributors cannot post images. http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/

If you’re a blog Administrator and you’d like to make someone a Contributor, Author, or Editor on your site, please follow the directions on adding contributors.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/#invite-people-to-contribute-to-your-blog

raincoaster on "How can followers add images?"

raincoaster — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:43:26 +0000

They can't upload images to your blog; if they could, it would be very dangerous, as you can put viruses in an image.

If you want people to become contributors, use a Contact Form and ask them to apply.

enjoymyadventure on "How can followers add images?"

enjoymyadventure — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:37:21 +0000

I would like to know how our followers or anyone can add images, not just comments? Is there a way for people to become MEMBERS of a blog?

raincoaster on "New contributors to blog"

raincoaster — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:15:15 +0000

The answer depends on the blog. We need a link, starting with http, before we can answer.

theeducatedbro on "New contributors to blog"

theeducatedbro — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:18:40 +0000

Hello,

I understand that I am able to invite others to my blog, but is there any way I can have an option on my blog that anyone can create an account under my blog, becoming a contributor? I feel as though the only method of inviting certain people will limit the growth of my blog and I would prefer viewers, if they wanted to, to be able to clink a link on my blogs homepage to create a username and post something (with the administrators approval of course).

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

macmanx on "Blog members not listed in wp-admin/user.php page"

macmanx — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:21:02 +0000

You're welcome!

dwilad on "Blog members not listed in wp-admin/user.php page"

dwilad — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:58:56 +0000

Understood.
Thank you :)

macmanx on "Blog members not listed in wp-admin/user.php page"

macmanx — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:46:09 +0000

Viewers are not actually considered users and are only listed at Settings -> Privacy.

If you want to bump them up to a higher level, you'll need to re-invite them as a Contributor or higher.

dwilad on "Blog members not listed in wp-admin/user.php page"

dwilad — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:45:06 +0000

Hello,

I have a private blog and I have some issues with the handling of users.

I invited familly members to join the blog and some are simple viewers and others are authors.
I can see that they are members in the privacy page (wp-admin/options-privacy.php)

However, I assume that the page wp-admin/user.php would be to see the same list (all users) as well as check and change their status (viewer to author for instance) but in that page I only have the list of the 2 administrators of the blog (me and the other administrator)

Moreover if i look in the invite page (wp-admin/users.php?page=wpcom-invite-users) most of members who joined are still pending to accept my invitation.

Is this normal ? Did I misunderstood the purpose of the "all users" (wp-admin/user.php) page ?

Kind regards,
Xavier

timethief on "Adding members without worpress"

timethief — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:14:04 +0000

@daeranoth
Cookies are how WordPress.com software recognizes who has legitimate access to your blog. User roles define what kind of access they have. Without an account any scammer or spammer could post whatever they wished to your blog and you would be faced with a mess. You're welcome from me and best wishes with your project. :)

daeranoth on "Adding members without worpress"

daeranoth — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:52:43 +0000

Thank you. That is what I thought and what I don't want. End of discussion.

tandava108 on "Adding members without worpress"

tandava108 — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:23:04 +0000

There are risky ways. You can sign up for "post by email" and give them all the email address. You could register a user, add it as an author and give them all the login details. Both will be a pain if someone decides to post adds, porn, or something that gets your blog suspended.

airodyssey on "Adding members without worpress"

airodyssey — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:53:00 +0000

IS THERE A WAY TO HAVE MEMBERS OF OUR KIN REGISTER ON OUR "BLOG" WITHOUT FORCING THEM TO SIGN UP FOR A WORDPRESS ACCOUNT?

No, there isn't. You should consider a Wiki instead.

And don't you know that all caps means screaming? You don't want to scream at us, right? :-)

daeranoth on "Adding members without worpress"

daeranoth — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:40:54 +0000

Ok, thanks for the attempt. This still does not answer the question.

Point that were missed:

1. We have security, aka user rolls, figured out. Don't need info on that.
2. The point was missed about adding users. Is there way to add users without forcing them to sign up for a wordpress account.
3. In your post "A blog is not a wiki", in your first couple of sentences you point out exactly what we are about

So the question remains: IS THERE A WAY TO HAVE MEMBERS OF OUR KIN REGISTER ON OUR "BLOG" WITHOUT FORCING THEM TO SIGN UP FOR A WORDPRESS ACCOUNT?

timethief on "Adding members without worpress"

timethief — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:31:01 +0000

register, log into and post on our website without having to force them to create a wordpress.com account

This is the support documentation entry on selecting user roles. This is the support documentation entry for adding users to your blog.

Note: A blog is not a wiki, a noticeboard, or a forum.

daeranoth on "Adding members without worpress"

daeranoth — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:47:39 +0000

Greetings,

We have a Kin on the Lord of the Rings Online game. I was wondering if there is a way to allow members of our Kin to register, log into and post on our website without having to force them to create a wordpress.com account.

We have the security aspect figured out. I would just like to allow our Kin members to register and post and we will not be charging for membership to this blog. Also, I would like to create a membership list based upon registration.

What is the answer?

truthwhispers on "Wordpress interactive?"

truthwhispers — Tue, 10 May 2011 18:19:29 +0000

Hello Seglarunt,

I understand that you want to create an interactive wordpress website that is more of a social website than just a singly authored blog. It is unfortunate that wordpress.com does not allow us to edit the PHP files as all of us are using the same theme template.

You might want to adopt wordpress.org which is even more seamless and installs within 5 minutes! And check out a better support community over here: http://wordpress.org/support/

If you still want to stick with WordPress.com, Id recommend you use WordPress,com's inbuilt Users architecture to your benefit. It is excellent and you can control user's privileges too. Check out: http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/

and http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/

Hope it helps, Cheers!

barknpurrblog on "Wordpress interactive?"

barknpurrblog — Tue, 10 May 2011 17:41:15 +0000

I was working on a site a few years ago where I tied the registration and log in parts of my website, wordpress, and bbpress together. It took extensive customization of the PHP files that makeup wordpress, but it was functional. If I remember correctly, whenever a user logged in from either the site, wordpress, or bbpress, the functions to log them into the others were called automatically.

I don't think you can do that with a wordpress.com hosted blog; I think you would need to host it somewhere else so you can customize the backend code.

I don't know anything about the mapping part of your question. Check the google maps API.

supportbot on "Wordpress interactive?"

supportbot — Mon, 09 May 2011 20:05:30 +0000

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seglarunt on "Wordpress interactive?"

seglarunt — Mon, 09 May 2011 20:05:28 +0000

I want to make a website from wordpress where the visitors can register to my website (not thru the regular wordpress register) and login to. I want them to be able to write articles in one category and would also like them to use a map where they can add locations and add comments (like good restaurants).

What do I need?