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  • I set up my first wordpress blog today, and it was a breeze. Kudos to the makers and contributors. I have a doubt though.

    We are going to have 2 contributors to the blog (say bruce and clark). My blog is hosted on the domain blog.companywebsite.com. Is it possible to set things up in such a way that the posts by bruce will be listed at blog.companywebsite.com/bruce and the posts by clark will be listed at blog.companywebsite.com/clark.

    I don’t know whether this matters, but the theme i’m using currently is Carrington Blog (which looks really great btw.)

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  • Not by default. You’d need to set up 2 categories – “bruce” and “clark” – and each of your authors would then need to ensure that they post only to those categories.

    Thread Starter karkaremtg

    (@karkaremtg)

    I created a category call “bruce” and posted a message with that category. When i go to blog.companywebsite.com/bruce, it gives me a 404. If i click on the category “bruce” hyperlink, i get redirected to blog.companywebsite.com/?cat=3.

    If you just want an author page for each author that lists their posts, this functionality is basically built-in to WordPress. I describe how to create a simple author page on my site. You can also download the author.php file I use for that article. The URL of the author pages is http://mysite.com/author/authorname.php. Additional reading on author templates.

    Thread Starter karkaremtg

    (@karkaremtg)

    asechrest, esmi, thanks… i’ll try this and get back

    If you want to go the category route, you’d have to do it like so:

    • Create the two categories and have each author post to the respective category
    • Create two new pages called Bruce and Clark
    • List only posts of category “Bruce” on the Bruce page. You do this by assigning a template to the page and then coding a custom query, or you could use a plugin but you’ll have less control over how the posts display than if you code it yourself. You’d do the same for the Clark page.

    I don’t know what your further goals would be but you may also want to hide those categories from the front page (plugin or hard-code).

    It seems to me, though, you maybe could just use the author template and link to it in your navigation.

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