Hi, I have a question for everyone of you wordpress experts I am thinking about a new site to be developed, and I'd like to know if I can let unregistered users to post on a wordpress blog, and their posts to be moderated before of their effective publication. A form for quick posting should be present in the homepage so people should just post without any other further hassles. Those posts should be queued in the moderator's approval queue, that must discern between legit and spam posts. Is there a way to do this with wordpress? A plugin, or something else? Thank you very much
A plugin will definately allow you to do it. You may need to write it yourself but it wouldn't be hard. I'd create a page template with the form as part of the page and nothing from the actual "write page" section. It would have options or hidden fields to replicate a normal "write a post" form and would get added as a standard guest persona. Sarah
I wrote about this some time ago: To add a team member to a WordPress 2.0 blog: 1. On the control panel select Users. 2. On the sub-tab select Authors and Users. 3. Enter user information under New User. Click Add User to save. WordPress defaults all new users to a Subscriber level which means all they can do at this point is read the blog and posts comments. To change this, go back into Authors and Users and reassign the user’s roll. Rolls basically grants the user permission to do certain things. The Administrator has carte blanche. An Editor is able to publish and manage their and others posts. They can moderate comments, manage categories, links, upload files and edit pages. An Author can publish and edit only their own posts as well as upload files. A Contributor can write and edit posts but the posts must be approved by either the Editor or Administrator before they are published. A Subscriber and only read and comment on the blog. This is only neccessary if you have a closed (read private) blog. WordPress offers you the option to moderate registration of the blog or to allow open registration. To enable this option: 1. From the control panel and select Options. 2. Under the General sub-tab check ‘Anyone Can Register’ under Membership. 3. Select the default role of new members. You will need to add a link somewhere to your WordPress login page where the option to register for the blog will appear.