I just downloaded the app for the new Wix blog and have been reading various "help" articles, but find them to be somewhat confusing. So I felt I would go this route and simply pose questions directly to this community for those who are far more experience than I in this. I am the administrator for a website we have developed for our church and seeking to utilize a blog; where two different individuals will serve as primary contributors. So I would welcome any insight regarding how I would name these two individuals (one being myself) and give them both access, customize that information with their names and photos, as well as the two broad categories they we will be posting regularly. Also, I have read where there are various design templates available, but do not see where those can be viewed and accessed. I see the different layouts, but not overall templates. So any help would be most appreciated.
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Simona,
I greatly appreciate you taking the time and offering these remarks.
Hi,
- the members area must be installed on your site: https://support.wix.com/en/article/adding-a-members-area-to-your-site
- your potential writer need to sign-up on your site
- you as site owner have to provide him writer permissions. Please read how to do it: https://support.wix.com/en/article/adding-writers-in-the-new-wix-blog
- your writer can log-in to the live site with the member credentials and create posts from there.
If you need further assistance, please contact Wix customer support by support@wix.com. Thanks!
No need to apologies, the Help explains nothing! If I had not done something similar with different software, I wouild never have figured this out.
Here you are showing Preview mode, that's neither fish nor fowl.
Unfortunately right now I'm away from my desktop and can't test this but I believe to change the image you go back to the WIX editor on the page where you created the blog. Click on the top left corner of the blog and you should have a Settings option. It might be in there.
Once you publish (not Preview mode), on the live site your 2nd contributor would click the Login/Signup that you see here at the top right. It pops up a registration window and she would put in her email address. If you (the administrator) set up the blog requiring registrations be approved, you will get an email saying you have a new person registering. Pending registrations are shown in teh Dashboard (the page you see when you log in to WIX before you start the Editor). When you check the box that approves the registration, she can then login.
FWIW, I created several gmail addresses for myself for testing purposes. I set up the blog, then used my test email addresses to test out what happens when a user tries to register, etc.
Hi! The blog help is very limited indeed. And the blog is very limited, so keep it simple. I will take a stab at answering your questions to get this thread started, hopefully others will chime in if they have found better solutions and we can both learn!
1) There are many templates for normal web pages, but no templates for the blog. The best you can do is change the image that appears at the top.
2) It is easy to have 2 contributors. You both register for your blog. As administrator, you can use your same account for the blog or a different one. Once your other contributor registers, you the administrator can go to the list of people who are registered and make that person a "writer", then that person can create posts.
3) After you have registered for the blog and signed in, in the upper right there is a circle with a silhouette. Click on that to change your profile. You can give yourself a nickname if you want, and upload a profile picture.
4) The blog "categories" are really just filters. When you creat a blog post, you have the option of tagging it with a category. Or not. If a reader clicks on the category name, they will see just the posts tagged with that category name. That's all categories do. All posts still appear if someone clicks All Posts or doesnt select a catagory. And I believe someone who is registered to receive email notices for new blog posts will receive them for all new posts, regardless of catagory.
There you go. Maybe others will give better answers!