Creating and Adding Users To A Blog

You need to add users to a blog when 1)  You want other people to write posts on the blog or 2) Your blog is private and is only visible to registered subscribers

PLEASE NOTE: If you only want your students to comment on posts you don’t need to create usernames for them or add them as users to the blog unless your blog is private.  They just need to add their name and email address when they write their comments.

There are two main ways to add users to blogs:

1. Users > Add New
2. Users > Add Users – Edublogs supporters and Edublogs Campus blogs only

Please Note:

• If your blog is private, only viewable by logged in users, and you don’t need to add the students as users but need to create student usernames — you can get your students to create their own usernames on the Edublogs signup page i.e. http://edublogs.org/wp-signup.php.
• If you want to create usernames using the Edublogs signup page — you must be logged out of your Edublogs account before going to the signup page.

Using the Add New Screen

The Add New Screen is designed so that you can either:

• Add an existing user on Edublogs.org (or the Edublogs Campus site) to the blog
• Create a username for a person who isn’t already a member of the Edublogs.org (or the Edublogs Campus site) and at the same time add that new user to the blog

1. Go to Users > Add New in your Dashboard
2. For an existing user add their username, the email address attached to that username, select their role and click Add User. Tip: You will see a message saying ‘Sorry, that email address is already used!’  or ‘Sorry, that username already exists!’  if you enter the incorrect combination of username or email address
3. For a new user, add a suitable username, their email address, select their role and click Add User.
   1. Tips:
   • For both existing and new users they will be sent an invitation email and they must click the confirmation link before they’re added as a user to the blog. This email normally arrives within 30 minutes.
   • New users have 48 hours to click on the link in the email to activate  their account otherwise you will need to reset up their account.
   • Spam filters, especially strict ones for institutional email addresses, often block these activation emails. If unsure use free webmail accounts such as gmail, hotmail that don’t block these invitation emails.
   • Use only lowercase letters and numbers, with no spaces, in the username
   • The username is what they use to sign into the blog dashboard and is displayed on posts and comments they write. You can’t change a username,  however you can change what name is displayed.
   • It won’t allow you to create several usernames with the same email address because the system resets password based on email address. But you can trick it using the gmail+ method
4. Existing users are sent a joining confirmation email
5. New users are sent a blog invite email
6. Once a new users clicks the link in the blog invite email they will be sent an email with their username, their password and a login link
7. Once users have confirmed your invite they will be listed as users on your Authors and Users screen and only be able to access features in your blog’s administration panel based on the role you’ve assigned them.

Using the Add Users Screen

The Add Users Screen is designed so that you batch add up to 15 existing users quickly to a blog.

Please Note:

• This feature is available to Edublogs supporters and Edublogs Campus blogs only.
• It can only be used to batch add existing users on Edublogs.org (or the Edublogs Campus site) to the blog using the email address attached to their username.
• You would normally use the Add User screen when adding users to a class blog after you’ve batch created blogs using the Blogs & User Creator.

1.  Go to Users > Add Users in your Dashboard

2.  Add the email address attached to their username, select their role and click Next.