CHAPTER 15 STARTING TO BLOG AND BUILDING (Web site domain)
CHAPTER 15 STARTING TO BLOG AND BUILDING YOUR COMMUNITY 423 Table 15-2. User Levels Level Description Level 1 Authors can create only drafts. They can edit their own drafts, of course. They can see comments including unmoderated ones, but cannot change them. They can delete and edit their own posts, too, even published ones. If they edit a published post, it goes back into draft mode and needs to be approved again. Level 2 Authors can publish their own posts, as well as edit and publish the drafts of level 1 authors. Level 3 Brings no extra privileges, other than the ability to edit and publish the posts of authors with levels 2 and 1. Level 4 Authors can additionally manage categories and moderate comments. Level 5 Authors can create pages, create and manage links (topics covered in the next chapter), and see and edit the details of users with lower levels. Level 6 Authors can upload files, though this is configurable in the options. They can also change options at this level. Level 7 By default, brings no extra privileges. Level 8 Authors can manage the themes and plug-ins. Level 9 Authors can manage the posts and links of level 8 users. This level brings no other extra privileges. Level 10 The author has the same privileges as level 9, but WordPress allows only one user to be level 10. As a level 1 author, George can create draft posts only. For some communities, this is a great feature. It allows you to have many contributing authors, but not run the risk of them publishing unacceptable posts on your blog. You can have a number of editors who can edit and approve the contributed posts for publication. If you have a wide and varied roster of contributors, this approach can really build your community. When you have multiple authors, you can provide links to list all the posts by an individual author. Unfortunately, neither of the themes provided with WordPress has this functionality built in. Adding Blog Pages with RSS Feeds The IImage Browser plug-in introduced earlier in this chapter adds some great functionality to the administration interface. Now you ll install another plug-in, WordPress RSS Link List, created by Bill Rawlinson, which gives you something extra for your readers. This plug-in allows you to include RSS feeds on your blog. These aren t the RSS feeds you provide on your blog, but instead incorporate someone else s RSS feed into your blog. This is another great way to get fresh content on your blog. The WordPress RSS Link List plug-in has two ways of working. The first is as a template function you can call in your theme template files. I ll show you how to do that in the next chapter. The other way this plug-in works is to allow you to incorporate an RSS feed in one of your posts. While this sounds like a good idea, I think it makes less sense once a post becomes old and moves off the front page of your blog. However, WordPress allows you to create pages for your blog, and this plug-in also works for pages. These are often described as static pages to distinguish them from
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