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05.15.09 Controlling Your User Generated Blog Content  By
Thomas McMahon
When thinking about a blog, one big thing that a lot of companies are concerned with is control. They are worried about what may get posted on their blog, and are concerned with people saying negative things about them in their comments. Companies get scared that it's going to be mass chaos. The good news is content can be easily controlled by properly setting up user rolls and comment moderation. When a WordPress blog is stet up properly, some users can be free to create content, but not able to push it live. Other users can be given the power to publish, but only after they approve the post. When it comes to comments, turning on the moderation feature will ensure that no comment makes it on the site without internal approval. This allows a company to weed out comments that are not appropriate, or formulate responses to negative comments so the comment and company response both go live at the same time. So how do you set this up? Lets start with users.  Within WordPress, there are five different user rolls and each roll has different capabilities.Subscriber A user setup as a subscriber doesn't have the ability to do anything. It's just like any other visitor to your site except they have a login and password. This is useful when creating a community around your blog where you can invite people to sign-up for an account and capture names and emails. You can then leverage other plug-ins to expand community features.
Contributor A user setup as a contributor has the ability to create posts along with editing and deleting their own posts, however they don't have edit access to any other users posts. This user level is good for controlling what goes live and when. A contributor can create all the posts they want, and the posts wait for someone else to approve them and push them live. Author At the author level, the user starts getting a lot more capabilities. They can create, edit and delete their own posts, upload media and publish their own posts. This is a good roll for users that have been posting to the blog for a while and the company is confident in what kind of posts they will create and don't feel they need to be approved anymore. Editor The next user step up is editor. Editors can do anything the previous user rolls can do but they also get to manage the blog by creating, editing and deleting any content. Editors can do things like approving or editing comments, managing posts, managing categories, managing pages, adding or removing users, and managing links. They have full access to all posts created by any user and can control any content that displays on the blog. This is the highest user level for an average user. Editors have the power to control every aspect of content on a blog, without having to worry about any blog settings, themes or plug-ins. Continue reading this article.
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