Re: [Hampshire] Registering on the WordPress website
OK, I've opened up user registration on the WordPress site http://hantslug.org.uk Now all you have to do is click on the 'Register' link in the right-hand Admin section. Registration is protected by a 'captcha' thingy to (hopefully) keep out the bots. Then you'll have to check your email to get the initial password. You can also register via your Google, Yahoo, or WordPress.com id. (And hopefully Twitter later if I can get that bit to work.) Have fun! cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Registering on the WordPress website
I never set a mailman password, and think that the effort of sharing passwords is unlikely to be worth the effort. I'm not sure how to simplify WordPress logins, maybe only giving draft and comments access by default? OpenID helps as you can then just use a Google address or similar. Thanks, Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 3 Feb 2013 18:00, Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com wrote: Hello HantsLUGgers Here's an idea... Since membership of the LUG is defined as being subscribed to this mailing list, it would make sense to link the list with WordPress's users. In other words, subscribers to this mailing list should be able to log in to the WordPress site in order to add and edit content. Does that make sense? A quick search hasn't revealed any obvious ways of doing it, although there is some discussion at http://mail.python.org/** pipermail/mailman-users/2011-**June/071787.htmlhttp://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2011-June/071787.htmlThere is also a 'MailMan Widget' for WordPress that does the reverse: maybe that's the way to go. Perhaps it would need a regular job to extract the current list of subscribers from MailMan and use that to update the WordPress user list. The first problem would be that MailMan just needs an email address, whereas WordPress works in terms of usernames. And the other problem would be to find a way to share passwords between the two systems securely. If anyone thinks that this is a) a good idea, and b) feasible, please let me know. (But I'll be away until Thursday, so don't expect any immediate replies from me.) cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/**mailman/listinfo/hampshirehttps://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --**--**-- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
[Hampshire] Registering on the WordPress website
Hello HantsLUGgers Here's an idea... Since membership of the LUG is defined as being subscribed to this mailing list, it would make sense to link the list with WordPress's users. In other words, subscribers to this mailing list should be able to log in to the WordPress site in order to add and edit content. Does that make sense? A quick search hasn't revealed any obvious ways of doing it, although there is some discussion at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2011-June/071787.html There is also a 'MailMan Widget' for WordPress that does the reverse: maybe that's the way to go. Perhaps it would need a regular job to extract the current list of subscribers from MailMan and use that to update the WordPress user list. The first problem would be that MailMan just needs an email address, whereas WordPress works in terms of usernames. And the other problem would be to find a way to share passwords between the two systems securely. If anyone thinks that this is a) a good idea, and b) feasible, please let me know. (But I'll be away until Thursday, so don't expect any immediate replies from me.) cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
