how to set up sub-blogs to comment on main blog
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Hi,
I am completely new to wordpress and its capabilities. I am the administrator for my sister’s blog. She wants to post regularly about her second go-’round with cancer for family and friends and the general public. We’ve been able to do that pretty well, until recently. She was in the hospital and unable to blog, so I posted how things were going.
Well, looking at things now, she’d like to separate what she writes from what I, and any other commenters, write -to avoid any confusion about what she says and anyone else. She does not want it like facebook, where she writes something, then someone comments on it, then she writes something else that may not get a comment. She says she’s been told that wordpress has a different format/theme we could use that would still have her stuff & other’s stuff linked, but they’re separate.
I hope someone can help!
Thank you in advance
ElaineThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi @massage2011, there are probably a few different ways to do what you are asking. One way of course is to just get your own blog at WordPress that is separate from your sisters. You can always add a link to her blog from yours.
Another way would be to have multiple authors on her blog and just create categories with each of your names. So every blog post your write, categorize it under “Elaine” and then when visitors click on the “Elaine” category, only your posts come up. You could also have a category for your sister. That way things will be separated a bit more cleanly.
Hope that helps!
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Hi weschyrchel,
Thank you for your quick response! I think we’ll try the different authors … though, after things get going a bit more and (hopefully) we get many people to comment, would we need a category for each person commented?
I don’t mind if a comment is attached/shows up under my postings … however, my sister wants her stuff all hers w/out comments attached/under her postings. Do we just say “no comments” allowed to hers, but direct to a link for them to comment w/out it being on the same page?
Further, if we separate everything, can we have the post that someone is commenting on show up together or be linked? -
Hi @massage2011, you don’t have to have a category for each author, that was just a potential solution I offered to be more obvious that posts were from different authors.
Comments are turned on by default for every post, but you can turn them off for each individual post. You have to open the “Screen Options” tab on the Posts screen and check the “Discussion” checkbox. Here are instructions on how to access the “Screen Options” tab, http://en.support.wordpress.com/screen-options/
Also, here is a link that describes how to turn off comments for a post, http://en.support.wordpress.com/enable-disable-comments/
If you want people to comment only on your post and not your sisters you may want to create a “Sticky Post” that stays at the top of the page at all times, that gives instructions to people who come to the site. You can read about how to create a sticky post here, http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/
Then in your own blog posts you can link to her post and maybe she can link to yours to remind people on where to comment. The only way I could see the posts coming up together is if they were done around the same time, you linked to each other or you assigned them to the same category. This should allow you to separate everything and still be linked in some way.
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Thank you so much!
There is a lot to learn here … time to crack the books, so to speak!
I appreciate your time and help very much. -
My pleasure Elaine, WordPress is the best blogging software on the planet and there are a lot of passionate people here giving support. You are in good hands!
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