Thanks!

So, what you’re saying is that when they visit my wordpress blog, they’ll be required to login with the account I made [I hope you can set it so that no one can change the password to it]. Then where do they go exactly to make their own account?

I suggest you make a how-to on this, as early as possible. I’m curious to try it out- since I like it, and I think I might as well use this for quite a long time.

That’s a valid point. You were correct in saying that making accounts for all of them would be tedious (but also the most straightforward solution). I hadn’t thought of this problem.

However, after thinking about it for a while, I’ve thought of a somewhat complicated solution. Let me try to explain the theory behind it.

Every user is assigned some “role” (like administrator, editor, contributor, etc). Each role has a specific set of options that they can perform. See http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities for the full list of levels and roles.

Now, my idea was to custom make a role (by editing one of the existing roles that wouldn’t be used much) so that all it can do is create new users. That way, you just give out one account’s information to your readers, tell them to log in and create an account for themselves, and then they’ll have their own account with posting privileges and their names (saving you the hassle of creating their accounts). The only thing is that doing so would require editing some of the PHP Wordpress files (like menu.php). If you’re still interested, I could write a thorough article on how to go about doing this. But then, of course, you come across the problem of users themselves being too lazy to create accounts… but there’s not much you can do about that.

Just tell me if you’re interested in such an article.

Chad is right. All the comments wil appear to come from the same user. Is there a work around to that- like being able to put in a different name everytime you post a comment from the same account ?

Thanks a tonne! (I mean it!!)