Limited access to areas of the site
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I have grasped that you can only limit access to posts, not pages (I want to get other people to put up their own information on our village website). I also believe that all posts created will appear in the posts list, which I am currently using just for events – so for an entry on, say, Council news, to appear in the list would not fit. Is there any sort of work around to enable me to achieve what I want?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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You can limit access to both posts and pages by password protecting them or by making them private. See:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/Please read this summary https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#summary
You can have either a public or a private blog and there is no limitation on the total number of contributors to any blog. If you’d like to invite others to publish posts or help approve comments on your blog, you can invite them to be a Contributor, Editor, or Author. If you want users to receive updates each time you publish new content you can invite them to be a follower/viewer.
See here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/The software needs to know the difference between hackers and your family and friends, who have an account and are logged in, and who do have user roles on the blog in order for them to post to it. Registering an account requires only an email address and agreeing to the Terms of Service.
The person will have to register a username account but does not need to register a blog. They will need to click the “Accept Invitation” button in the invitation email. If they are logged into their WordPress.com account, they will be taken directly to your blog. If not, they will be taken to the log-in screen, where they can either log in or create a new user account.
Note that users who create a new WordPress.com account at that point will still need to return to the invitation email and click the “Accept Invitation” button after doing so.
Lastly, there is a built-in spammer prevention so send out only 10 invitations at one point in time and then wait and manage those before sending out 10 more.
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I see that you have a custom menu. You may want to read this http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/
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Thank you, timethief. I did try password protecting pages but when I went into the site as a member of the public, it wouldn’t show it without the password, which isn’t what I want. Or have I got something wrong there?
Thanks for the link to custom-menus – I hadn’t found this before. I have already read the stuff on user levels: my problem is the level I want only seems to appy to posts, not pages.
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