Grade level blog>each teacher has page>

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  graydonohoe · Member · Jul 29, 2014 at 2:22 pm

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  Teacher wanting to create a blog for my entire grade level. Want to create a page per teacher. Is there a way that each teacher can enter their specific contacts to receive notice when they update just their page?

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  lizthefair · Member · Jul 29, 2014 at 5:51 pm

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  I think to achieve the goal you are going for, you’ll need each teacher to have their own separate blog. Then you could create an “umbrella” site with links to each of the individual blogs.

  If you create a separate blog with just the main page where the posts go (no extra pages–like “about”) and the same links and menu structure you could make the set of blogs look like they were all part of the same site.

  Here’s a rough outline of the steps you could take:

  1) Set up the “main” blog. Call it something like NameofSchool3rdgrade.wordpress.com. That site will have links in the menu to all the teachers individual blogs. If there is any info that pertains to all 3rd grade classes, you could also create pages on the main site (like you’ve done on your current blog) for that info.

  2) If you want all of the individual blogs to be accessible from your WordPress account, go to http://wordpress.com/sites/ and click the “create another wordpress” button in the left column. register a new blog with a name something like Nameof School3rdGradeteachername.wordpress.com. Set the new site up with a barebones theme (like this one: http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/manifest/). Go to Pages>all pages on the dashboard and delete any pages you see there. Now the “site” is really just the blog page you requested in your original question.

  3) Follow the same process until you have separate blogs for each teacher.

  4) Next, using the custom menu feature (http://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=custom+menu) set up the menus on each site to have identical menus by using the “links” option. Now you will be able to click between the different sites via the menu. If you use the same theme for each site, it should appear as if you are always on the same site.

  5) Invite each teacher to be an “Author” on their site. This way they will be able to write and publish their own posts, but will not be able to muck with how the sites are linked together.

  6) Once that’s all done each teacher can send a link to their individual site to parents or whomever should get updates an ask them to click the “follow” link in the lower right corner of the screen. This will opt them in for e-mail updates everytime the teacher posts.

  I’m afraid that might seem a little overwhelming all laid out like that, but if you do it step by step, I think you should be ok. Let me know if you have additional questions, get stuck somewhere in the process, or if I’ve made a faulty assumption along the way somewhere.

  Good luck!