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I would like my vendors to be able to write posts with their usernames in the store. How can I do this??
@mjmdesigns
If you use buddypress on your site, there is a plugin called: “Social Articles” that will allow users to write posts from their profile page (buddypress profile).
Also, I know BuddyBoss makes a plugin for this too.. User Blogs, I think.Social Articles is free, and so is BuddyPress. 🙂
Excuse my ignorance. Buddypress would integrate with the woo store site? They would be able to write posts in the woo store site where they are Registered Vendors ? Or it would be another separate site (buddypress Blog) and would post in this other site? What I want to achieve is as a group work SEO of our store and products. Do you think that by us sharing our products posts in social media with good written sharing info would be good enough so as to use nothing else?
@mjmdesigns
Hello Manuel,
Rich written content such as blog posts is a great way to build awareness of your site, attract visitors and improve SEO, yes. 🙂 sharing those posts on Social Media is good- a lot of people may come upon the articles and then be led to your site.
This is a possible combination to allow your vendors the ability to post blog posts for your site without you needing to alter the vendor role at all. As is, only the admin or editor roles have the ability to post blog posts on your site. This does not involve a separate site– all blog posts from the vendors/users would remain on your site.Try these– they are free. If they do not work how you wish, you can deactivate and delete them:
1. Install buddypress. Your users, including vendors, will then have a “profile” or member page, and also the ability to message and other functions if you enable them.
2. Install the plugin Social Articles. This plugin then allows users including vendors to create and post blog articles from the front-end in their buddypress profile.I suggest these plugins because in the past, I believe there were some security issues with giving the vendor role editor/blog publishing capabilities. I think it also allows them to view content on the site that belongs to other vendors/users.
So– with these two plugins, you can allow vendors and members to create & post blog articles from their BuddyPress profile pages without altering the vendor role.Hello. Hope you can give me your advice again. I installed both BP and Social Articles. Myself as Admin is working right but the 2 Vendors I have registered, can’t write articles. Don’t see how to set this up. I notice that with BP a page activity is created, a page members is created and supposedly a page activate is created but this one I don’t find (it shows in admin in tab pages but I click view and shows the homepage of site). Should I uninstall BP and social, install BP set up and then install Social Articles?? I installed both BP and SA at the same time without having setup BP first. Included some attachments
I found activate page. It doesn’t shows if you are log in in admin. I suppose it is created by BuddyPress(BP).
@mjmdesigns
The activate page is not a page that is needed to be seen. It is dormant. Yes, that’s created by buddypress.
So– no worries there.
As far as the social articles.. the vendors should have the tab in their buddypress profile, and then the option to create a new article, edit article.. 🙁Perhaps try deactivating Social Articles, then re-activating it.
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