Single Site needs multi-member blogs
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All, is there a way to have multiple unique blogs on a single instance of WP? I am setting a new site and will have my main blog that I post to but would like to have select members of the site also do their blogging on the site.
Is this possible? I have not used WP in several years so playing catch-up.
TIA, Barry
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Hello Barry,
You can have several different types of users with different abilities on your site. Some can just publish, others can edit. You’ll want to navigate to the People area of your site’s sidebar to find the area for setting this up.
More information on the various roles can be found here.
Sarah
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Hey Barry,
If you want to have more than one site under your account, you can certainly do so. Here’s how: https://en.support.wordpress.com/create-a-blog/#adding-a-new-site-or-blog-to-an-existing-account
Let me know if this is what you were looking for :)
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In case you want to have them all work on ONE blog, you can refer to this guide: https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
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bnoret,
You can certainly have several users contributing to a blog. I’ve provided a link to the supporting documentation: https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
As far as having individual blogs within a single site, or blog within a blog. That is not possible. If you wanted to have different site/blogs all managaged from your WordPress.com account, that is absolutly possible. You can see how it’s done here… https://en.support.wordpress.com/create-a-blog/#adding-a-new-site-or-blog-to-an-existing-account
But in order to do this, you would need individual site/blogs to be registered.
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However, I guess you could also create sub-domains under your one site…
blog1.mainblog.com
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Just adding to @aniellocristo’s point, you’d need a custom domain to redirect sub domains. And custom domains are part of the paid WordPress plans, more information available here: https://wordpress.com/pricing
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@bnoret
Oh no! This thread has all the characteristics of tuning into turned into a multiple response gong show.WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
If I correctly apprehend what your intent is then what you describe cannot be done on a wordpress.COM site. You cannot hand out username account and passwords. That can only be done on a wordpress.ORG multi-site installation. Moving to self hosted wordpress http://move.wordpress.com
You cannot create a network ie. a wordpress.ORG multi site at wordpress.COM. Please read this https://wordpress.org/search/multisite
Here at wordpress.COM the closest you can come to that is to build a Membership website: https://en.support.wordpress.com/tutorials/build-a-membership-website-tutorial/
If you wish to make some people official users of your WordPress.COM site with limited user roles read on.
What I post below applies only to sites hosted by wordpress.COM.
You cannot password protect a whole wordpress.COM site. You can password protect posts and/ or pages on a site.
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. Contributors cannot upload images. If you want users to receive updates each time you publish new content you can invite them to be a follower/viewer.
Provided you are logged in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the site, 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. If you select option 1 then the blog will be a public one, available to all with internet access to read.
If you wish to add official users see these support docs:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#adding-users-to-your-site
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#adding-viewers-to-a-private-siteUsername accounts are required but registering blogs under them is not required. The invitees will have to register a WordPress.COM username account which requires an email address only, but they do 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.
If the person being invited to contribute to your blog does not already have one, he or she will have to register a WordPress.COM username account. He or she does not need to register a blog. There is a just a username please option. The invitees who lack username accounts select the “username only” option here: https://signup.wordpress.com/signup/?user=1
NOTE that as you have an account you would have to log out and clear your browser cache https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-your-browser-cache and cookies https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-wordpress-com-cookies to witness the process as the invitees without accounts would experience it.
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.
The invitees need to be logged into their WordPress.com account prior to clicking the “Accept Invitation” link.
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.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#changing-user-rolesNote:
The number 10 is the number of outstanding invitations you can have at any point in time. That limitation is a spammer prevention measure. Wait until the invitees have registered and send out 10 more.
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