[NCUC E-team] Wordpress logins & roles

[Joly MacFie]

AFAIK contributor means a post has to be approved, author means it goes up
automatically, editor allows approval and editing of other's posts.

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On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Tapani Tarvainen <ncuc at tapani.tarvainen.info
> wrote:

> All,
>
> Opinions, what kind of login names are we going to use?
>
> Two basic options: full names ("Tapani Tarvainen") or
> nicknames ("tapani").
>
> Suggestion: let's use full names for "regular" use,
> as in writing blog entries &c, and nicknames for
> admin accounts at least for people who want to
> keep the roles separate, like me. I don't know
> if we need to force it though, so if some of you
> prefer to use same login for both, it'd be
> full name (e.g., "Brenden Kuerbis" is now such).
>
> We'd also need to work out who we'll use WP roles
> (administrator, editor, author, contributor, subscriber), cf.
> https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
>
> I've now set my "regular" login ("Tapani Tarvainen")
> as Author to see how it works.
> Editor should be enough for people dealing with
> site content only (allows editing other people's posts).
>
> And we'll need to start writing new blog entries to the
> site soon (should've started already actually).
> Quick entries about the Durban events might do
> for a start (especially for the African school
> and reception, of which there's very little now).
>
> Anyway, anybody who wants a login, just let me know
> (Wilson and Brenden can also add new logins).
> Tell also which login name and role you want
> (if you want to be admin, I've got some tasks
> that need doing...)
>
> --
> Tapani Tarvainen
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