Passwords when adding an administrator to my blog
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I am having trouble adding a user to my blog. As she will be doing a lot of the designing, she needs to be an administrator. I have sent her an invitation to join the blog. Does she need to first set up her own account with her own password, and then she will access my blog through My Blogs when she logs in? Or do I have to give her my password, which I don’t want to do, since I have several blogs.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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No one aside from you needs to have Admin status. Be aware of that and that the recommendation is 1 Admin per blog for good reason.
Editor
An Editor can create, edit, publish, and delete any post or page (not just their own), as well as moderate comments and manage categories, tags, and links.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 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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Thanks, timethief. But, can an editor design the site? She is going to be the designer. I have set it up with a theme, but then she needs to fiddle with the design, add plugins, add and remove buttons, categories, etc.
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Hi again,
No but what’s there to design when referring to a WordPress.COM blog? Have you read this comparison? https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/WordPress.COM is a turnkey operation. We cannot edit templates underlying our themes. We have limited CSS editing capability, provided we purchase the required upgrade.
See here for details on purchasing the annually renewable custom design upgrade and CSS editing:
Custom design – Frequently Asked Questions
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/#frequently-asked-questions
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/editing-css/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/custom-fonts/
Please use this link https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization#postform so you can copy and paste your text into a thread that will appear in the CSS Forum where you will get the help you need. -
I have set it up with a theme, but then she needs to fiddle with the design, add plugins, add and remove buttons, categories, etc.
There is no install plugins tab/button on any WordPress.COM hosted blogs now and there never has been one. 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/If you want FTP access and to install plugins or third party themes into a site then you will have to hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/ and set up your own WordPress.org install. WordPress.org offers free software that you can install on a web server. You can upload and install themes and plugins, run ads, conduct ecommerce and edit the database.
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