Adding user to an existing blog
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I’m very new so maybe I’m missing something obvious, but I’ve created a blog for my pastor. I would like to add him as an author and he currently does not have a wordpress account. Based on the instructions it seems like when I invite him via email, it’s going to prompt him to sign up and create a blog under his name versus being added to the blog that I’ve set up for him. How do I reconcile this? I’ve tried to test it out by sending myself an invite (to a different email account of mine, of course) and it does just that – have me create a blog that does appear under the blogs that my original account manages, but it doesn’t just add me as an author to the blog I had previously set up. What am I missing?
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When you invite him under email, he can sign up and JUST get a user ID. He does not have to create a blog. The “Just give me an account, not a blog” option is below the other one.
Simplest of all is to have him go to WordPress.com homepage and sign up for just a username there. Then you can invite that username directly.
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Next question…So I want this one blog to have 2 bloggers contribute to it with different subjects. So pastor will contribute his thoughts, another author will contribute poems, etc. The tutorial seemed to indicate that you can have contributors be able to, like, segregate their posts somehow…how does that work. If I invite 2 people and they accept using the username only option, how do I make sure that their blog posts don’t just run together when the blog is viewed..does it have something to do with categories?
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All the posts regardless of the author will display on the main page but you can either use categories or authors to view them seperately. If your theme supports custom menus you can add this to the top navigation links. Otherwise there are sidebar widgets for each you can have display on every page.
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If they both use the same log-in then their Posts will show the same Author. They could have a signature at the top or bottom of the Post to separate them. The Post could also be sorted by Category and Tags. A Post can have more than one Category or Tag, so they could also be sorted that way.
To have their own log-in all they need is different email addresses. Setting up an account is quite easy or you could visit each pastor and sit at their computer after they log-in to their email account and set up the account for them, should only take a few minutes. I did something like that for a friend and their blog – sent the invitation to them and they called me on the phone and I walked them through the sign-up process so they have an account and not a second blog.
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