How to create a profile without a login account

  • Resolved Gil Sousa

    (@heckel)


    7 years, 3 months ago

    Hi,

    I have a reader interested in writing a guest post for my blog, but I want to have full control of the format and content of the articles in my blog, therefore I don’t want to just create a contributor profile and let that person write the article there and then later maybe changing something without me being aware of that.

    My goal is to just create a profile, with that person’s information (Instagram, Twitter, etc details) and post the article under that profile. That way I would give full credit to that person, but at the same time I would have full control on how the article looks like.

    Is it possible to create just profiles on wordpress, without having to insert a email or login?

    Thank you

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    You certainly don’t have to use the intended poster’s real email or give them the password to the account. ??

    Thread Starter Gil Sousa

    (@heckel)

    That’s true, but when I tried that, the invitation made me create a WP account, and not one on my blog. Is there a way that I don’t have to create “fake” WP accounts? Or maybe I did something wrong?

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    the invitation made me create a WP account, and not one on my blog

    I don’t understand. What do you mean by “a WP account” vs. “one on my blog”?

    Thread Starter Gil Sousa

    (@heckel)

    The invitation I get it points to the WP.com website, so that I have to create an account there. I would like to create a local account, just on my blog’s database. For example, once I tried to create the account I got a warning that that user already exists, though I am sure I have no user with that username on my blog’s DB.

    Is there a way to create only a local account, without having to create a WP.com profile?

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Do you have Jetpack installed and, if so, have you enabled the single sign on option?

    Thread Starter Gil Sousa

    (@heckel)

    That was it! It worked!

    I disabled that option, I created the user, and then I enabled that option again.

    Thank you!

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