What type of ‘USER’

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  samdurrant · Member · Nov 8, 2009 at 12:41 pm

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  Hey everyone…

  If I want someone to be able to only edit a PAGE, what status must I give them?
  Thanks for the help…

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 8, 2009 at 3:52 pm

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  You need to look at the descriptions for each level of user very carefully: http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/ . To edit/create a page, they would have to be either an editor or an administrator – neither of which you should make anyone.

  You also need to look at this explanation of the differences between pages and posts. Pages are for static content that seldom if ever changes. http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  It is much better to set them up as either a contributor or an author and then assign them a specific category to use for their posts.

  Using pages for your content has drawbacks you need to be aware of:

  1. Pages will show up lower in search engine results because search engines place lower emphasis on pages. Pages are meant for static content. For some types of sites, this may actually be the best way of presenting the material though.

  2. When you publish a post, wordpress automatically “pings” all the major search engines to let them know you have published a new post so that they can index it. When you publish a page, wordpress does NOT “ping” the search engines. You will have to ping manually at a service such as pingomatic.com.

  3. Only posts show up on an RSS feed, pages do not. That means people cannot subscribe to your blog so that they are alerted when you add something new.

  4. You can assign categories and tags to posts to help the search engines properly place you in search results. Pages cannot have tags or categories as they sit outside the blog structure.