To make blogs members only, do you have to have each member get a blog?
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I’d like to start about 10 blogs, each with 12 members at the “author” level. I’m a high school teacher, and I want to set these sites up for my 120 students to discuss a book we’re reading.
I see that I can set the site so that only members can post and comment. I don’t care who sees the sites, but I want only my kids publishing and commenting on it.
Two questions: (1) Am I right that this is doable with the wordpress.com service? (2) do my 120 kids need to get individual web sites just to become WordPress members? I couldn’t get the site to let me make them member without going through a very lengthy process that included getting a web site. For various reasons, I must make them members; they cannot do it themselves. Do I have to go through establishing 120 web sites?!
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Awe man! I just typed a whole reply to this and then closed the wrong window! Grr! I’ll try again.
Whilst wp.com will serve the purpose you hope to use, I would think it would be better for you to go down the hosted route. It will allow you then to have total control of your domain and the accounts that you need to create and run the 10 blogs and 120 users. WordPress Mu will handle this no problem.
WP.com will also allow you to do this, but you’ll need to create the 10 blogs with you as the admin, register 120 (!!) users and then add them as authors to the appropriate blogs with the author permission. I very much doubt that the wp.com team will do this for you.
Hope this helps.
Collin
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Thanks, Collin. I actually did the hosted thing with 1.5 for this lesson plan last year, but I’m doing it with all 120 kids instead of 30. I think I’ll use 1.5 again this year since I have it all downloaded and I made a nice web page with illustrated step-by-step directions for blogging on 1.5
I guess I still have to do the famous install for each of the 10 blogs, right? Any other issues that I should be aware of?
Thanks,
Peter -
dear collins,litclass,
i have set up one blog.I want only the users who know the site address to pass comments on it.I see that a lot of comments are coming up the uncategorized option.How can I get rid of that uncategorized option from the blog page.
Can my user members delete the posts that come in this main blog.I want only the administrator to have that option.Please help -
rtiarea1, the blogs here at WordPress are public blogs. You probably want a private one where you can have password protection. For that to occur, you’re going to need your own host to do that and password protect the subdirectory that the blog would sit in.
One option you can use to get something close is to hit Dashboard -> Options -> General -> and make sure “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” is checked. Unfortunely that would mean anyone with a WP account would be able to post a comment. You can also moderate all comments by checking the box at Dashboard -> Options -> Discussion -> “An administrator must approve the comment (regardless of any matches below)”
Not sure what you mean by “uncategorized option.” I don’t see anything like that in my comments. Maybe an example…
Deleting posts depends on teh level you assign users. You can read this thread for a discussion about the different levels within WP.
Hope this helps,
-drmike -
Yes, you’ll need to do the install again, but I would use v2, not 1.5.
Put them in subdomains and you’ll have no problems, it’s just time :)
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litclass wrote:
I’d like to start about 10 blogs, each with 12 members at the “author” level
- Am I right that this is doable with the wordpress.com service?
- do my 120 kids need to get individual web sites just to become WordPress members?
1. yes, it is possible, you may have as many *blogs* (not user accounts) bound to your username as you need;
2. yes, each of them need to get an individual blog just to become WordPress member.if you have got all of your kids e-mail addr. list, you might want to ask admins to give you 120 invites (you’ll have to send out), so students would establish their accounts themselves (but I see they can not).
alternatively, considering you’ve got some experience of setting a self-hosted WP install, you might be interested in giving a try to deploy a multi-user version of WP ( http://mu.wordpress.org ), as Cornell already suggested, instead of single-user WP1.5, cause the latter give you just 1 (one) blog not 10.
if your host has a ‘catch-up all’ e-mail (to the one admin accnt ex.: (email visible only to moderators and staff) ) domain feature, or 120 mailboxes (which is hardly & bothersome) available you’ll be able to set up all your kids accounts yourself from WP.MU home blog page and somewhat easier management of your 10 main blogs in the ‘Site Admin’ section on the Dashboard.
alas, currently, there’s no administrative facility *to add* a user account with an arbitrary password — one need an access to user’s mailbox to retrieve a pass which in its turn needed for blog (read user account) to be created.[This is the house that D^HJack built]
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