Blog Commenting Permissions - Unregistered / Not Logged

[Mondy]

Hi all - trust you're well --

Just took a closer look at my B15 install by playing around with Blogs. I became stuck in trying to figure out how to allow the Unregistered / Not Logged In usergroup to comment on blog posts. Within admincp > Usergroups > Unregistered/Not Logged In settings I cannot seem to find the setting I must change to allow this to change - my installation doesn't allow this usergroup to comment presently.

Although not sure whether I'd like to allow this usergroup to comment in the long-run, it would be handy if I could grant it such permissions for now while we're merely playing around with vB5.

Could you point me in the direction of the right settings here please?

Thanks heaps..

[Wayne Luke]

In the Admin CP go to Channels -> Channel Permissions. Set the permissions for the Blog channel. However when users create their own blogs, they can restrict access to unregistered users if they wish.

[Mondy]

Blistering fast response Wayne - thanks for that!

Bit more of your wisdom needed here mate. Within the Channel Permission page for this usergroup I find two settings that seem to confuse me:

• Can Publish
• Can Create Channel

In context of my question, not sure what each means, and whether each/both of them should be changed here.

Can you enlighten me please?

[Wayne Luke]

Can Publish will probably be related to the CMS when it is added but could apply to blogs as well. I would guess it would move something from a draft to a published state. I actually haven't worked with the permission though. For guests you can probably turn this off.

Can Create Channel will allow users to create their own blogs in the system. So again you would probably want to turn this off for guests.