1,188,828 Edublogs & counting!

Blogging for teachers and students, made easy    ...find out more

User Options

Return: The Campus Site Admin Guide Home

Add New Users

Add new users controls whether blog owners are allowed to create and/or add new users to their blog. The default setting is No.

Image of add users

When changed to Yes your blog administrators will have a Add New Tab added to their menu under Users. This provides the ability for them to create new usernames and add existing users or new users to their blog.

In most circumstances we recommend you keep Add New Users set to Yes.

NB: The Add Users tab provides the ability to batch add 15 users to a blog at a time. To use Add User their username must already be created.

Banned Names

You can ban specific names in WPMU so that no one can register with that username or blog details. By default, WPMU bans www web root admin main invite administrator. Examples of names you might add to banned names include ceo faq support.

Image of banned names

Limited Email Registrations

Image of limited emailSelecting the “Enabled. Blogs and user accounts can be created” option (Site Admin > Options – Allow new registrations) means anyone can create blogs using your signup page (e.g. http://edutags.net/signup/).

There are situations where you’ll want to restrict sign ups to specific email domains to limit who registers on your site. You do this by adding domains to the ‘limit email registrations’ section.

Banned Email Domains

Spammers can be a nuisance when you allow anyone can create usernames and blogs using your signup page (e.g. http://edutags.net/signup/). One way of reducing spammers is to ban email domains that are frequently used by spammers.

Image of banned emails

For example, banned emails domains on Edublogs include: wilemail.com, 21cn.com, pookmail.com, mailinator.com, disposableinbox.com, recclick.com.

See Next: Welcome email & first post