Comments on: WordPress Plugins for Multiple Blogger Blogs

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:10:33 +0000

You are talking about two different things. If you have a self-hosted WordPress blog, users login through the normal login screen. You can use the Role Manager WordPress Plugin to control what they have access to, or the built-in user controls. Not sure what else you might want.

For WordPress.com, users also login through the login link, or through WordPress.com’s front page, it’s up to you which you provide for them personally as well as on your blog. Many will bookmark that link on their bookmark toolbar so with one click they can open the page and log into the blog. Others, like me, keep the blogs I work on open in my browser’s tabs so I just switch to that tab and I’m already logged in if the login timeout hasn’t happened, or I log in again.

Can you be more specific with what you want to do differently?

By: pokey

pokey — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:04:13 +0000

Is there anyway you can set up a WordPress blog so that the contributors don’t have to log into WordPress.com and go through the Dashboard etc., but instead they login on the blog itself and a Post field comes up all on the actual blog? So that the WordPress mechanics effectively act as a back end?

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By: David Szpunar

David Szpunar — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:32:20 +0000

Thanks Lorelle, I keep running into more and more amazingly useful content on your blog, and this is just the latest. Even when I use Google I tend to find links to your stuff, and that usually gets me more than I would have ever found through Google alone. There’s all sorts of stuff in here I wouldn’t have even thought to look for! My only “complaint” is that there’s so much info I’m not sure where to start and it’s a bit overwhelming. Oh yeah, and I don’t really have a multi-author blog right now But I have a project with two or three authors I’m starting on at work now and I can see how many of these could fit in there. I also have a WordPress-as-Content-Management-System site at work where some of these may be useful.

So thanks for this post, and all the others of yours I’ve used (and will use) without commenting on

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By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:16:20 +0000

Thanks for your site. Fantastic!

I have used so much of your advice!

May I ask a question. Is there any way to give each Author the option whether or not to have their Contact the Author email link displayed or not?

Thanks

By: KAPSCigarBar.com

KAPSCigarBar.com — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:21:27 +0000

@Lorelle-
Thanks, I’ll see if I can figure out how to get that all into place. Shouldnt be too hard. By the time I get it done, the next version will be ready to roll out
Thanks again!

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:18:43 +0000

@ Kaps:

Now it makes sense, but it breaks the blog rules. Change the “Pages” to “Categories” and you get the same thing but better.

Pages are for static content, like About, Contact, and such. Putting content on them makes it complicated. Currently, a WordPress search does not include Pages. The next version is supposed to, but for now, you have to add a Plugin to add Pages to the search. Content on Pages aren’t “expected” therefore you break the trend and familiar structure.

Put your categories up there if you want them to be more important and save yourself all the work of constantly editing and messing with Pages.