Web domain - CHAPTER 15 STARTING TO BLOG AND BUILDING
CHAPTER 15 STARTING TO BLOG AND BUILDING YOUR COMMUNITY 421 Figure 15-18. The self-registration process Assigning User Permissions Continuing with the new author George, when George registered, an e-mail message was also sent to you, as the administrator, informing you of the new registration. You need to log in to your blog and promote the new user George to allow him to post stories. Click Users along the top of the administration page, and then click Authors & Users. You will see the lists of authors and registered users, as shown in Figure 15-19. Authors are registered users who have permission to create posts. Registered users are registered but not able to create any posts. Note If you have the Users must be registered and logged in to comment option turned on, those users who are registered can log in and comment, even if they haven t been promoted. You can find this setting on the General Options page in the Membership section. Click the Promote button to promote George to level 1. He will then become an author and be listed in the Authors section (at the top of Figure 15-19). From there, you can promote him further to enable different capabilities, as listed in Table 15-2. For example, a level 2 author sees a different list of drafts than authors at other levels, as shown in Figure 15-20. Note When authors have edit and manage privileges, they can manage the posts and links of only users with lower levels.
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