In This Guide

What is a Trusted Poster?
A Trusted Poster is a user who has permission to post articles to all categories of your blog. By adding a user as a Trusted Poster, you do not have to explicitly add permissions for them to post to categories that you might create in the future. It's a convenient way of allowing an author permission to post to all categories of your blog, even ones you have yet to create.

Do not enable a user as a Trusted Poster if you want that user only to have access to post to some areas of your blog, and not other areas. For that you will need give the user custom permissions on a per category basis.

Adding a Trusted Poster
To add a Trusted Poster, follow these steps:

Go to the "Add User" Page of the User Permissions
The first step is to click the Settings & Security tab in your control panel. Then click on User Permissions in the row of Options underneath that tab. The User Permissions page will present you with the options to List Users, Add User, Invite User, or Manage Groups. Click on the link to Add Users. You will be taken to the Add User page, which looks like this:

Select "Trusted Poster" from the "Permission Type" Menu
The Add User page is where you add permissions for a user. The first step to adding a user is specifying the type of user.

In this case, we want to make this user a Trusted Poster, so select Trusted Poster from the Permission Type menu.



Enter the User's Information into the Appropriate Form
The next step is enter the user's information. There are two places where you can enter information, and where you enter it depends on whether the user already has a Blogware account:

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If the user already has a BlogHarbor user account:

Click the Existing User option and enter the user's username into the Username field of the Existing User form.

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If the user does not have a BlogHarbor user account:

In this case you will be doing two things at once: creating a new account for the user and giving that account Trusted Poster privileges.

Click the New User option and enter the fill in the fields of the New User form.

You must fill in these fields:

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Username

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Password and Confirm Password

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Display Name

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Email

Filling in these fields is optional:

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First name

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Last name

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URL

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Timezone

Click the "Add User" Button
Once you have finished filling out the appropriate form, click the Add User button.


You will be taken to the User Permissions page for the user you just added as a Trusted Poster:


If you look at your list of users (do this by clicking on List Users in the User Permissions menu) you'll see the Trusted Poster you just added is now in the list:




Deleting a Trusted Poster
To delete a Trusted Poster, follow these steps:

1. Go to the "List Users" page of the User Permissions

2. Select the Trusted Posters you wish to delete

3. Click the "Delete Selected" button

4. Click "OK" when the "Are you sure?" window appears

Go to the "List Users" Page of the Address Book
Click the Settings & Security tab of the Navigation Bar, then click on User Permissions in the row of Options underneath that tab. The User Permissions page will present you with the options to List Users, Add User, Invite User, or Manage Groups. Click on the link to List Users.

Select the Trusted Posters You Wish to Delete
To select users to delete, check their corresponding Delete checkbox.

In the example below, the user whose username is "anotherexample" is marked for deletion.

Click the "Delete Selected" Button
Once you have finished selecting users to delete, click the Delete Selected button.



Click "OK" When the "Are You Sure?" Window Appears
A window will appear, asking "Are You Sure?".

To continue and delete the users you selected, click OK. To cancel the operation and keep the users, click Cancel.


If you clicked OK, the users will be deleted and the page will reload and display a "Changes saved" message near the top.