Adding a register here on page for contributors.
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I am exploring some ideas for my blog and there is this one feature hangup that I am struggling with. I hope someone in this forum can point me in the right direction.
I would like to create a page called “your stories” a page where my readers can post their stories about various topics. The issue that I am faced with is having to go thru the admin side and manually adding people to be contributors. I am dealing with a older crowd.Instead I would like to have on “your stories” page a register here or something to that effect, where they can register to be a contributor for my blog. Can this be possible?
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I’m sorry but this is all that’s available http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/17/how-do-i-add-more-authors-users-to-my-blog/
You may find the contributer additions, which only have to be made once, inconvenient but do consider this please. If you did not have to add them as contributors to your blog, then you would have a “free-for-all” situation – anyone could post anything. I’m sure you do not want spammers, drug pushers and flesh peddlars posting directly to your blog, do you? This is the reality of the blogosphere – it’s crawling with vermin ready to utilize any opportunity they can to do their thing.
HTH and best wishes :)
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That is true but as a Contributor only. Since I run the blog with Admin rights I have the right to publish or delete.
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The issue that I am faced with is having to go thru the admin side and manually adding people to be contributors.
There is no short-cut or other method of which I am aware. You must function as an administrator to add the contributors to the blog using this method http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/17/how-do-i-add-more-authors-users-to-my-blog/
The contributors must register with wordpress (they do not need to take blogs) and they must use that same unique email address they registered with to post to the blog whereupon you can “preview” their submissions and make the choice to publish them or not.
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/12/19/why-must-my-e-mail-address-be-unique/ -
thank you for the quick response. do you by chance know of any other blog software that will allow this feature?
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What you really want, it sounds like, is a wiki. Try http://wikispaces.com who seem very easy to work with. Nobody needs to approve anyone, and if you already have a blog you can link to the wiki so that people can see all the stories.
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