How to allow non-registered users to post or comment?

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  jonathantanaka · Member · Mar 22, 2007 at 3:16 am

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  How do I allow non-registered users to leave a comment or post?

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  drmike · Member · Mar 22, 2007 at 3:29 am

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  Make sure you don’t have the “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” option checked at Dashboard -> Options -> general -> Membership.

  Hope this helps,
  -drmike

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  chidley · Member · Mar 22, 2007 at 4:25 pm

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  I unchecked that box and then added a friend’s email address to allow them to post and the message I got was that this person is not in the community, which i take to mean that he needs to register first. so now what?

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  jonathantanaka · Member · Mar 22, 2007 at 4:36 pm

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  Thanks, drmike, that solved the problem! :)

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  judyb12 · Member · Mar 22, 2007 at 4:41 pm

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  @chidley:

  If you uncheck the box, then your friend can comment on your posts. You don’t need to add their email address anywhere (that’s for adding other authors to your blog). If you want your friend to be able to write posts, he/she does need a wp account.

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  ryannjenn · Member · Mar 22, 2007 at 4:43 pm

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  @chidley

  That solution drmike gave was to allow unregistered users to comment. If you want to allow them to post you need to have them register on wordpress as described in these instructions:

  How do I add more authors / users to my blog? [screencast]