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1 Nov 04, 2006 01:17    

I went and made about 20 users accounts today for all the people in the office wanting a blog.

Here's what I don't understand how to do.

I want to be able to create a user called "Joe Blow". I want to make a "Joe Blow" blog that's displayed under the "all blogs" part of the website. I want Joe Blow to be able to log in and edit only his blog.

How do I do this?
EDIT: Couple of things.

I can log into my fake user account, called Marita, from the marita blog page. But it's a pain as "log in or logout" is as the bottom. Where do I go to change that?

I have marita set to admin on the marita blog and I can't see where to post a new post and it won't let me edit a post b/c of permissions.

I'm very confused. (Yes, I looked at the help section of the website. No good.)

2 Nov 04, 2006 02:24

For each user go in and create a blog. After you create it go to the 'user permissions' subtab on that blog and click 'wide' then select all the permissions you want each user to have in that blog. I imagine you'll want to give Joe Blow the permissions in the JoeBlow blog, and no one else, but anyway this is where you set up individual user permissions. http://manual.b2evolution.net/Blogs_tab covers stuff about that. To move a link on the public page somewhere else you'll have to edit your skins/your_skin/_main.php file. http://manual.b2evolution.net/Main.php_file talks about that a bit, but basically look at the file while thinking about how the page looks, read the comments in the code, and it should start to make sense. The specific bit for logging in is the "user_login_link()" function:

	<div class="bSideItem">
		<h3><?php echo T_('Misc') ?></h3>
		<ul>
			<?php
				user_login_link( '<li>', '</li>' );
				user_register_link( '<li>', '</li>' );
				user_admin_link( '<li>', '</li>' );
				user_profile_link( '<li>', '</li>' );
				user_subs_link( '<li>', '</li>' );
				user_logout_link( '<li>', '</li>' );
			?>
		</ul>
	</div>

3 Nov 07, 2006 00:42

If I call that function in my custom template, it will parse the correct HTML code I assume? ;)

Cool if so. Will following the instructions you made bring a user to a "write" your post section.

I want it to work like Xanga and Blogger does. Where the user goes to the blog while not logged in, logs in, then the links for write and edits posts appears only to them.

4 Nov 07, 2006 01:32

I checked the Wide settings, and sure enough, "Marita" can write edit and everything.

Why when I click "Edit" on one of her posts I made as admin is she not able to edit it?

EDIT:
On Marita's blog I don't see anywhere where to make a new post. Where would that be?

5 Nov 09, 2006 21:45

*bumps from a high state of confusion*

7 Nov 12, 2006 19:16

Not really.

I have the Marita user set to the highest level. I can log in on her page to Marita, that's not a problem, but I don't see ANYWHERE for a place to "make a new post".

>:(

9 Nov 13, 2006 17:14

I'll take a screenshot later on today. :)

The blog is going to be a local-only blog. :D At least for now.

10 Nov 14, 2006 00:12

Here's the pic. Am I missing the "Make New Post" section?

11 Nov 14, 2006 08:54

Log in as admin and go to admin > users , click the group name that Marita is in and check that "visible link" is selected for "Access to Admin area" option.

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12 Nov 14, 2006 22:19

Yay! :D Thanks a bunch.

Here's one little problem...

Instead of saying "Make New Post" like I would want, it says "admin".
How can I change this (below) code to say"Make A New Post"?


h4>other:</h4>
<a href="http://140.211.132.209/Blog/admin.php?blog=5" title="Go to the back-office">Admin</a><br />

13 Nov 16, 2006 13:01

You can just change the word admin to whatever you like in the link

<a href="http://140.211.132.209/Blog/admin.php?blog=5" title="Go to the back-office">Admin</a><br />

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