How do I enable guest posting?

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  osopardo2013 · Member · Sep 4, 2013 at 9:58 am

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  How do I enable guest posting? I’m in charge of a small HOA site and would like the ability for our homeowners to post a maintenance request without the hassle of creating a WordPress account. Many of our residents wouldn’t be able to figure that out.

  My concept is that the homeowner would go to the Maint Request section of the site. Click on a button “New Maintenance Request” and post the request to the site. The HOA Manager would see the new post, then reply. (We have a problem with the Manager ignoring emails, we think a public post would add accountability.)

  Seems simple to me, but I can’t figure out how to do that.

  Thanks,

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Sep 4, 2013 at 2:35 pm

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  The easiest way to do that would be to set up a page labeled “Maintenance Requests” and then ask residents to leave their request as a comment on the page.

  Aside from that, there is no way for residents to make new posts or pages themselves without having a WordPress.com account.

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  osopardo2013 · Member · Sep 4, 2013 at 2:55 pm

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  Thanks Rootjosh,

  Do you know of any way to change the title “Leave a Reply”. It would be nice if it said “Make a Maintenance Request”

  Thanks,
  Tony

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Sep 4, 2013 at 6:48 pm

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  That is something you should be able to do with the Custom Design upgrade. You might want to ask in the CSS Customization forum:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization

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  osopardo2013 · Member · Sep 4, 2013 at 6:52 pm

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  Thanks

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Sep 5, 2013 at 6:21 pm

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  Happy to help.

  Let me know if there is anything else I can do for you. Otherwise, thanks for using WordPress.