All members from first registration auto ability to contribute to default blog?
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I have installed WP and BP 1.2.3 for my community site.
I would like all members that register to be able to add a post to my default Blog (News) similar to that explaned in the following plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-community-blogs/
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I just wondered if the above mentioned plugin is now redundant in BP 1.2.3 and there is some way of activating this functionality already that im not currently aware of?
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If not, I would let each member create a blog. If I did that, how would I keep the origional theme\branding and admin navigation so the users ‘sub’ blogs appeared under my default WPMU/BP install? Similar to how Ning does it (this may not be applicable depending on answer to 1.)
Many Thanks.
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If you just want users to be able to submit blog posts, why not use regular WP instead of WPMU? In the WP settings, set the user’s default role to be contributor or something higher than subscriber. Then they can access the backend and write blog posts on the blog.
Note that this functionality doesn’t really have anything to do with BuddyPress.
The only reason to run WPMU is if you want your users to each have their own blog. If you don’t want to offer that, don’t run WPMU.
BuddyPress just provides the social networking functionality (activity streams/updates, forums, groups, etc.).
As for Burt’s plugin, I think it might not longer be necessary in most cases now that BP runs on WP Single and not only on WPMU. I’m probably mistaken though.
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