Adding Authors

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  duclos · Member · Nov 17, 2010 at 8:14 pm

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  I am making a wordpress for my class to use.
  I would like it so each student has their own “author” account on the site.
  I only want the students to be able to add posts and comments.

  Is there any way to set up these types of accounts?

  Thanks in advance

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  auxclass · Member · Nov 17, 2010 at 8:51 pm

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  Add each student as a new user then set them to “Author” standard feature.

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

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 17, 2010 at 8:51 pm

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  Each student will have to sign up for a wordpress.COM account (they don’t need to get their own blog) and then give you the email addresses they used to set up those accounts. You then go to users > users in your dashboard and you can add theme there by email address and assign the author role to them.

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

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  auxclass · Member · Nov 17, 2010 at 8:55 pm

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  Note: the “Sign-up for a blog” is the default choices – you need to look a bit for just add an account (on the same page) – also if one of your students does sign-up for just an account that name is reserved so they can add a blog with that name any time.

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  mzvetina · Member · Dec 4, 2010 at 7:48 pm

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  You can have your students forward you the activation mail they get from WordPress when they register – then you know when they have registered and you have the e-mail addresses you need to add them to your blog. (This is what I’ve done with my class blogs.)