multiple post pages?

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    jessahodge · Member ·

    hi,
    I am wanting to start a blog with a few of my friends where we all talk about different topics. I was wondering if it is at all possible to have it so we all have our own page to post on?
    I know that I can’t post more than one post through the ‘pages’ option. But is there any way to have more than one ‘blog’ page where we can each post our own stuff to and it only show up there. rather than having our own category archive and everything showing up on the ‘blog’ page?

    Any help is appreciated.
    Thanks!

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    timethief · Member ·

    No that’s not possible. To do that requires web hosting http://wordpress.org/hosting and setting up a wordpress.org software install. http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

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    timethief · Member ·

    If what you mean is you want to register username accounts and passwords, you cannot do that on any wordpress.com hosted blog. You can password protect only pages and posts. You cannot set up a membership by registration site. For that type of functionality you’d need a self-hosted site running on a paid web hosting service.

    There is no FTP access and no blogger installed plugin capability on any free hosted WordPress.COM blogs and there is no upgrade you can purchase here that changes that reality.
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/

    None of the WordPress.COM plans allow for a fully fledged membership by registration site, including being able to provide usernames and passwords.

    See here for all that can be done on any WordPress.com blog http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/

    Here at WordPress.COM 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.

    To change blog visibility to Private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3. See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings

    The person will have to register a username account which requires an email address only, but does not need to register a blog. That requirement is because the software has to be able to differentiate between hackers and official users and allow access only to those with username accounts and official roles on the 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.

    WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

    If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there. For hosting see https://wordpress.org/hosting/

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    timethief · Member ·

    But is there any way to have more than one ‘blog’ page where we can each post our own stuff to and it only show up there. rather than having our own category archive and everything showing up on the ‘blog’ page?

    There is a single page we can post to in any blog and that’s all there is. We can only create the appearance of posting to more than one page.

    You have two choices on any blog
    (1) All posts on the front page.
    (2) A static front page and posts on a different page.

    By default the front page of your blog displays all published posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. That is for the convenience of your returning visitors who will not be happy to have to click through an About page every time they visit your blog as they come to read your most recently published content. Creating that situation can make some visitors annoyed – so annoyed that they stop following your blog.

    However, if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for all published posts (not pages) to display on in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top.

    To do that create two pages first http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

    After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change for each page and click “save changes”.
    A static page (select below)
    Front page:
    Posts page:

    The guide is here http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

    By default the front page of a blog displays all published posts in reverse chronological order with the most recently published post on top. When we publish a post on WordPress software the software automatically creates the same entry in the Archives, and on the dynamic (automatically updating) Categories and Tags pages in accord with the Categories and Tags we assign to that post.

    So when we create custom menu and add the dynamic (automatically updating) category pages to that custom menu we create the appearance (not the reality) of posting to more than one page.

    You need to be aware that:

    1. There are differences between posts and pages described here
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

    2. There are differences between static pages we bloggers create https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ that will not automatically update, and dynamic category pages created by the software when you publish a post which will automatically update https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/.

    3. We organize posts by category assignment prior to publication. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/ and when we publish posts the dynamic category pages they automatically display on are determined by the categories we assign to them.

    So the process you need to use is:

    1. Assign Categories to your Posts. https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
    2. Create a custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#1-create-a-custom-menu
    3. Add only the dynamic category page links into the custom menu that you want to appear in that menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-category-pages
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