It’s crudely possible by just setting ‘only user accounts can be created’ in site > options. Then everyone is a ‘subscriber’. mu doesn’t have a variable setting for default user roles. subscribers can only comment on posts. Gonna hafta manually change them to something else.
See: https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2292
for a discussion on this topic.
I wanna do something similar. I want to create a blog for each group at group creation time (optionally). All group members to have author/contributor roles.
Groups are the most important component in bp for me. Groups should have a wire, forum, and blog. And a bowling league. Bowling leagues are important too.
@burtadsit Great thread you pointed us to. I came away with the feeling that we can all achieve this objective without a ton of coding but I feel like we should flush out the concept 1st. Conceptually, I am trying to achieve what @feconroses is ….a community with a main central blog that they can post more in-depth pieces than you might find on a forum and then a bunch of groups centered on topics. In a perfect world, I could either give each group a “blog” to post things on or somehow associate tagged main blog posts to a particular group (thru categories maybe?) Bottom line is this: our community is looking for engagement. Not the ability to run their own blog inside a community. BP is clearly well suited but just needs a few tweaks to get there.
Oh, working on the bowling league plugin
I found a plugin done by somebody who needed to allow registered mu users to easily subscribe to a bunch of different blogs. I made it more generic.
See: http://burt.ourcommoninterest.org/2008/11/24/add-registered-users-to-community-blogs-easily-widget/
Maybe this will work for you as a temp fix.
Not a bad temp fix, thank you. I think I will tinker with the reg code though to achieve this:
1. new member signs up
2. they are automatically made an Author of the root blog
3. I’ll use wp-cms-postcontrol plug in to drastically mod the interface for post entry to keep it simple
Then the root blog will feel like just another content part of the site
