Subscriber vs. Contributor

  • Resolved lemur

    (@lemur)


    17 years, 5 months ago

    I’m reading the reference book “WordPress Complete.” I was curious – a contributor can both make blog posts and comments, but a subscriber can only read.

    Is there no designation for someone who can read and comment but not post original blog posts?

    Thanks!

    Chris

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  • You could set Allow people to post comments on the article via Administration > Options > Writing so posts you write get set so anyone can comment.

    See also:
    Roles and Capabilities and the Role Manager Plugin listed under Resources there.

    Thread Starter lemur

    (@lemur)

    OK – yes, I have that set already – so that will override the designation?

    Therefore, if I set someone up as subscriber, and have the above checked, they will be able to read and comment, but not post something new?

    If so, then that will work exactly as I want. Thanks!

    Chris

    The “only read” basically means they can comment.
    Actually, who can comment is determined by the settings in Options > General: Membership.
    If nothing is checked – any visitor (not registered) can comment. That’s the ideal, in my opinion, requiring registration for a simple comment is annoyance and most people don’t bother…
    If you set it to “they must be logged in…” then any registered member/user, regardless of their level would be able to comment.

    Well I think one of my subscribers from (mail.ru) domain has managed to hack in but I’m still trying to determine the damage. He managed to be listed on 3-4 of my old posts as him posting them and when I went in to create an entry my post window has no text modifiers (paragraph, bold etc..) so I think they wrote over one or more pieces of code.

    I may do away with the subscriber since I don’t see a benifit from having it.
    Jeff

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