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[steve4u]

Can anyone tell me, how new users can submitted yourself without administrators permission?

For example, that user write his username, password and e-mail, and just can start write blogs without.

[garvinhicking]

That's against the "laws" of blogging. The reason of a blog is that you cannot anonymously write. What you want is more some kind of forum like phpBB or even a wiki like cowiki.

Apart from that, it could be easily done as a plugin, but as I said - this does not really make sense. Instead you should create a HTML nugget with a form to let users submit an E-Mail to you to apply for an author account. Then you can create them via the administration panel, and make sure that first you have checked the user.

The other way round you will get spammed and flooded from evil users, I can guarantee you...

Regards,
Garvin.

[steve4u]

Thank you very much for quick answer. I really appreciate that!

And thanx also for appreciate more about "laws" of blogging. I am new here, so I don't know all this stuff. But your answer was help me much.

Btw, do you have similar e-mail form for an author account?

[garvinhicking]

Hi Steve!

You're welcome!

Btw, do you have similar e-mail form for an author account?

You mean, if I offer my readers of my blog a way to send a mail to me? No, I don't, because I only want me to be writing in my blog

But this is easy to do. The most easiest way would be to make:

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<b>Apply for authorship</b><br />
If you want to be an author of my blog, just 
<a href="mailto:steve@host.com">send me a mail</a> and tell me, what you want to contribute. I will then setup an account for you, and you can write entries here!

If you want an automatted email form instead of your readers having to use an email client, you could use a script like FormMail (google for it)...

Regards and hope, that helps,
Garvin.

[garvinhicking]

I also just created a simple plugin for this: http://www.s9y.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=3765#3765