Help in creating community blog :(

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  ceitblogsite · Member · Oct 6, 2011 at 11:03 am

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  I’m really new at this . Please Help Me

  1)I want to make my page home button to link to the site itself .
  2)Does the people who wants to be an author in my blogsite should have a wordpress account?
  if there is another way could somebody help me ?

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  tandava108 · Member · Oct 6, 2011 at 12:25 pm

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  1) Do you want a page home button in a widget area? If so just use the text widget to put in a link button to http://ceitblogsite.wordpress.com/

  2) Yes, for most usages they should sign up to wordpress and you should approve them as authors. They don’t need to actually create a blog though.

  However I have heard that some people enable “post by email” and distribute the posting email address to people who they would like to contribute. This way they don’t need WordPress accounts. I would be worried about doing that myself, all you need is for someone to pass the secret email to others or publish it and you could be inundated by unwantedposts

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 6, 2011 at 1:03 pm

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  Depending on how much work you want to do – some blogs have contributors email the article to one person who then edits the article (Post) and posts it on the blog with a byline for the original author – some blogs will have a Category for each person that contributes so Posts can be sorted by original author (there is an Author Widget but if the editor is putting Posts in for others the editor would be the “author” of record)