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  woozywithcider · Member · Feb 16, 2011 at 1:05 am

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  I want to make a site on which people can share ghost stories by typing in their experiences into some sort of text box on the homepage. These stories would then automatically be posted onto a seperate page for others to read. Does anyone know how this can be done? If so any help is greatly appreciated, I’ve never made a website before. I have done the basic work on the website, which can seen here: http://tellmeaghoststory.wordpress.com/. Other features will come later once the basic functions are up and running.

  Thanks,
  Lawrence

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  timethief · Member · Feb 16, 2011 at 1:46 am

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  WordPress.com software is blogging software. It’s not forum software or wiki software. I want to make a site on which people can share ghost stories by typing in their experiences into some sort of text box on the homepage.

  You can add official users of your blog and provided it’s a public blog then others can use comment boxes to comment on the posts they read.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/

  There is only one dynamic page in a blog and we cannot post to more than that one page. We organize our posts by use of categories. We can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one by setting up a custom menu and displaying Categories in tabs along the horizontal navigation menu.
  Instructions > custom menus > http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

  Staff have provided this support documentation entry for those who want to structure their blog like a website. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/

  Is this suitable for you?

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 16, 2011 at 8:00 am

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  Frankly, in my opinion WordPress.com is not optimized for this. You would need an independent install of WordPress.org software OR VIP hosting like icanhascheezburger has, and they pay hundreds a month for that.

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  auxclass · Member · Feb 16, 2011 at 8:08 am

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  Clumsy workaround – have a contact form and visitors could put their story in the contact form that is emailed to you, then you would need to copy and past into a Post – add a link to a forum – don’t know what the length limit for a contact form is or if it has a limit – no short cuts to glory