can a guest write blog posts to my blog other than giving them admin access?

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  bverona · Member · Jul 7, 2015 at 3:20 pm

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  i want others to contribute blog posts, how do i invite them to do so?

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

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  timethief · Member · Jul 7, 2015 at 3:54 pm

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  Hi there,
  See here please:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/

  The person will have to register a username account which requires an email address only, but does not need to register a blog. That requirement is because the software has to be able to differentiate between hackers and official users and allow access only to those with username accounts and official roles on the blog.

  Upon receipt of the invitation the invitee will need to click the “Accept Invitation” button in the invitation email. If the invitee is logged into their WordPress.com username account, he or she will be taken directly to your blog. If not, he or she will be taken to the log-in screen, where he or she can either log in, or can register a new WordPress.COM user account.

  Note that invitees who do create a new WordPress.com account at that point will still need to return to the invitation email and click the “Accept Invitation” button after doing so.

  Lastly, there is a built-in spammer prevention so send out only 10 invitations at one point in time and then wait and manage those before sending out 10 more.

  If the invitee have registered a username account and cannot access your blog, then post their WordPress.COM username here and type modlook for Staff help into the sidebar tags of this thread. Then subscribe to this thread so you are notified when Staff respond to it. To do that please look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.

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  bverona · Member · Jul 7, 2015 at 3:56 pm

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  Can I then edit and or delete the posts?

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  timethief · Member · Jul 7, 2015 at 3:58 pm

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  Read this please http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/ noting that an Admin can do everything and that’s why only 1 Admin per blog is the recommendation.

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  auxclass · Member · Jul 7, 2015 at 4:18 pm

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  The general good practice suggestion is to make writers Contributors or Authors, depending on how much you trust the person and weather they need to upload images or other media (required to be an Author) – – see the links above for the full description