WordPress Hosted Site for my University Students (100 Users)
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Does WordPress supply a Service whereby I can supply 100 full ‘admin’ separate Accounts to my Students?
I do not want to self-host FYI.
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Hi there.
What exactly do you want to do? Do you want each student to have their own site? In that case it would be simplest if each student just registered their own account and blog, and then add you as a second admin once they’ve done this.
Alternately, you can create hundred separate blogs from within your own account (there’s no limit on the number of blogs one account can own), and invite each student as a second admin on their respective blogs, but each student will still need to register their own WordPress.com account with their own unique username and email before you’ll be able to invite them.
Option 1 is by far the simpler one from your perspective.
If you want to add multiple users to a single blog, that’s possible as well. I don’t think there’s a limit to the number of users you can add, though the system will only allow you to invite ten at a time as a spam-prevention measure. But again, each student will need to register their own account before you can add them as users.
You can see this link for more information on inviting users to a blog: https://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/
See here on registering a new account and/or blog: https://en.support.wordpress.com/create-a-blog/
Note that you have to sign out of this account to register a new account, and each account must have a unique email address, i.e. you can’t use the same email address for more than one username.
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Thanks,
They create their own accounts at the moment. But Free Aacounts are rather limited and I want them to have more freedom for Video, eCommerce,
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Hi there.
An administrator has full power over the site, event deleting the entire site. This is why it is recommended to have only one admin per blog. (https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/). I would recommend you to take a look at the different user roles definitions, especially Contributor, Author and Editor to see if it one of them is ok for what you need. You can easily invite people to contribute with one of these roles. (Although there is a 10 people limit per invitation to avoid spam, so you would need to send 10 invitations).
If no one of these roles fulfills your needs, you could invite people to contribute to your blog, following the instructions in this support page: https://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/. Once you have them in your users list you could change the role of your contributors to admin (How to? https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/, Changing User Roles section)
I hope this helps you.
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There is no way to use plugins on WordPress.com, no matter what type of account you have: http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/
Additionally, we can only edit the CSS of existing themes, and only if you have the Premium or Business upgrade bundle. We don’t have the ability to fully customise themes here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/
If you want your students to be able to do those things, you need to use the WordPress.org software, which is completely separate and different from WordPress.com. For WordPress.org you’ll need a separate domain and hosting account for each site, and those aren’t free, I’m afraid. You might get around that by hosting the sites on your own server if your school has such facilities, but you’ll have to ask in the WordPress.org forums how to do that.
For more on WordPress.org you can see here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
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I understand, thanks, I was hoping for a new WordPress service since those more archaic days … Cheers all :-)
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