people post on my blog
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Hi community support
Im new here and im wanting to help everyone who needs help or advise. i already helped a few people, i’m wondering if i can put something on my blog that when someone needs advise or help he/she can post direct on my blog and i dont mean when i post and then the person gives a comment, i mean like page on my blog where everyone can post on it or something similar.How do i turn off Akismet?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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See here for creating a static page first https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ Then see here for creating a contact form on it for private communication with your visitors https://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/
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where everyone can post on it or something similar
Blogs are not sites where anyone can post anything. That’s simply not what they are designed for at all.
You can have either a public or a private WordPress.COM hosted 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
See here please:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/
and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#authorThe 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.
Upon receipt of the invitation the invitee will need to click the “Accept Invitation” button in the invitation email. If the invitee is logged into their WordPress.com username account, he or she will be taken directly to your blog. If not, he or she will be taken to the log-in screen, where he or she can either log in, or can register a new WordPress.COM user account.
Note that invitees who do 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.
See also:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/author-grid-widget/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/authors-widget/This post may also be helpful http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/03/06/multi-author-wordpress-com-blogs/
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re: Akismet
Over 80% 0f all so-called comments submitted to wordpress.COM hosted blogs every day are spam. That’s not surprising given that the vast and overwhelming majority of all internet communication is spam. We cannot disable Akismet on wordpress.COM hosted blogs and that’s very good thing. The spam we are not sent for review contains malware and viruses and if opened would bring down many sites, not just our own site.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/unwanted-comments/Be aware also that setting up anonymous commenting is akin to throwing down a welcome mat to every spammer and phisher out there. See here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderation
This page > Settings > Discussion is where you set up defaults for comments.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/Discussion Settings
Other comment settings
_Comment author must fill out name and e-mail
_Users must be registered and logged in to commentNote that the prompt to submit and email address and a website URL will still appear, but providing an email address and logging in are not required, and you cannot change this so the prompt does not appear.
You can post instructions for your visitors in a text widget if you wish to set up anonymous commenting. That’s easy to do. You copy and paste this into a text widget: https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/
Readers: Note that the email address and logging in prompts do appear for comments on this blog, but providing an email address and logging in are not required.
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Thanks timethief and i thought that i could do something that everyone can post on my blog but by making my blog private i wont be able to reach out to everyone to help them. I’ll just keep my blog public and thanks for explaining what akismet is.
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