Blogs at Penn State Community

Add Editors and Commentors [BETA]

This version of the blogging tool allows you to add users with Penn State Access Account userids as editors or commenters to your blog.
Note: This tool is still in beta mode and has not been tied in to any Penn State directory or blog-internal searches.

Potential Editors Must Login

In order for you to add a Penn State person as an editor to your blog, you must ask that person to log in to http://blogs.psu.edu and create a blog.

Add an Editor

1. Login and enter your blog.
2. Click Manage in the top links then select Users.
3. Click the link Add a user to this blog.
4. Navigate through the list to add a user (the list may be ordered by when a person created a blog). You will have to click through each page in the list to find the appropriate user. If you do not see the appropriate user, contact that person and ask him or her to log in to http://blogs.psu.edu.
   Note: The search option is not functional at this time.
5. Check the entry for the appropriate user then click Continue.
6. Check the appropriate role name then click Confirm. Names and descriptions of selected roles are given below:
   • Blog Administrator – full rights to edit the blog
   • Editor – Can write and edit entries, change categories and upload files.
   • Author – can write an edit entries and upload files, but change categories
   • Contributor – can write and edit entries, but not upload files
   • Moderator – can approve and edit comments from others
   • Commenter – approved commenter
   • Design – Can edit templates only
   • Webmaster – Can only publish pages and edit templates

Delete an Editor

1. Login and enter your blog.
2. Click Manage in the top links then select Users. You will see a list of users with different access permissions.
3. Place a check for any user you wish to remove, then click the Remove button above the list.

Change Permissions for an Editor

At this time you must delete a user, then add the individual again with the updated permissions.