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  stephensepictrip · Member · Nov 7, 2011 at 11:14 am

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  I am in the process of setting up my first blog in preparation of a long overseas trip with my children. To keep in touch with their classmates, they want to be able to post to this site individually. I can’t invite them to be new users as they are only 10 and 7 and don’t have their own email addresses or word press sites. Is it possible to have a wordpress site with two blog authors which are displayed separately? Any help would be appreciated.

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 7, 2011 at 11:58 am

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  Indeed, any WP.com blog can have more than one author. Officially kids that young aren’t supposed to use WP, but since your’e supervising them it should be okay (esp if you have them post somewhere “BOY IT SURE IS NICE TO BE TEENAGERS” or something).

  You can either get them email addresses or you can set them up yourself, but they will need email addresses. Then you Invite them to be contributors.

  If you don’t want to go that route, you’ll still need to set up at least one other account. Just give them both the password to it and have them sign their posts with their names.

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  auxclass · Member · Nov 7, 2011 at 2:15 pm

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  They could also share an account – then set up a Category for each of them a Category can be sorted and you could put each Category in a Custom Menu entry to sort by each child

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  timethief · Member · Nov 7, 2011 at 4:05 pm

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  I agree with auxclass. Here’s how to set up a custom menu with Category tabs for each child’s name.

  You cannot post to pages. Pages are static and sit outside the blog structure. With WordPress, you use Categories to organize posts into subjects and then you can add those Categories to your navigation using a custom menu.

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

  What’s critical is:
  (1) a clear comprehension of the differences between pages and posts > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
  (2) a clear comprehension of the fact that there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts and we cannot post to more than that one page. But we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.

  We organize our posts by assigning Categories to them. When we publish a post it automatically appears on the running page for posts and also on the Categories pages and Archives pages. Note: There must be one published post in each Category in order for there to be anything to display.

  A custom menu allows you to display Categories with drop-downs to sub-categories in tabs along the horizontal navigation where normally only Pages tabs are displayed. If you wish you can also include Pages with drop-downs to sub-pages and/or custom links in your custom menu as well. You are in charge of what appears in a custom menu. You choose the order in which to display any and/or all the foregoing in your custom menu. You choose which to display and which to hide. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus

  I also believe the article may be helpful > Multi-Author WordPress.com Blogs