How to allow self-registration to join a specific Wordpress MU blog.

Question

Hi,

I have a Wordpress MU instance installed.

I allow self-registration, and self-creation of blogs.

I have a user who has created a blog for a Chemistry class. He wants his 100 students to be able to self-register and become authors on this blog.

By default, when you follow the Wordpress MU register link, you are signing up for a site-wide account not for this specific blog.

How do I do this? It would be very painful to have to add the 100 students one by one as the administrator. Besides that, we don't actually have a list of the 100 email addresses.

I need a way that people can either request to become part of the blog, or automatically start contributing right away.

Answer 1

In Settings->General why not use the option that lets anyone register. Then the students can each provide their email?

Answer 2

Then what about the Tools->Import->WordPress facility? First do Tools->Export and look at how the file is structured, then create your own XML file with just your users, then do the Tools->Import->WordPress thing.

Answer 3

Try asking in the BudyPress forums, BudyPress is a social networking plugin for MU. (It might actually be closer to what your looking for)