There are 10 user levels in WordPress. See the Codex for more info on those.

The default level for a new user is set on the page
Options > Writing
where the initial permission can be set to
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This discussion started from a question posted to the TW2 (Triangle Web Technology Women) Yahoo! list. One of the subscribers recommended

SiteX, http://sitex.bjsintay.com, as a quick tool for site building. See www.harnettgreendogs.org for an example of its capabilities.

It’s still in beta, but might be of interest to some.

For Women’s Advocacy Day we’re using Planned Parenthood’s online advocacy account. For last year’s Advocacy Day we tried a simple “e-mail your legislators and send us and Verla Insko a copy” and found that really didn’t work. LOTS of people e-mailed Verla, but didn’t bother to put their *own* legislators on the To: line…

So, systems like CapWiz or Groundspring.Org’s AdvocacyNow are worth their price in the ability to track messages and make sure they are delivered correctly.

On the other hand, having the coalition use one of its members accounts does raise questions. At what point does it make sense for the coalition to have its own account — one that it could “loan” to smaller member organizations as a definite member benefit?

Here’s Lisa’s list of blogging tools:
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I managed to add a definition list to the “Overview” page, by simply dropping the appropriate HTML onto the edit box. But it did mean updating the style sheet to style dd and dl tags.

The UI for site administration has a spot to put a “description” or “tagline” for the site. This is accessed with the PHP function bloginfo(’description’), and it appears in the WP 1.5 Default theme, but it’s not part of the WP 1.5 Classic theme.

I changed the Header template to include a reference to it and added a style for it in the Stylesheet.

Other versions of WP themes I’ve seen/used have a calendar in the “Archive” section (in this template/theme, over on the right). You can click a day and get all the articles posted that day.

It wasn’t in this “Wordpress Classic” theme that came with Wordpress 1.5. But looking at the code in another theme, I found the key PHP line [get_calendar()] and dropping that between appropriate LI and PHP tags did the job. I suppose I should check the developers documentation at codex.php.org, but that seems like too much work at this point.

[This is the second try to post this info. I may have fumbled something earlier …]

I’ve been doing all this posting from Firefox and things are working beautifully.

I tried the site in IE, though, and found that the while the blog itself seems to display fine, the login screen is just blank — you can’t login, let alone post anything — when using IE.

Hmmm… This might (or might not) be a dealbreaker in “selling” this particular system as a tool for the advocates.

I don’t see where it’s possible to change the meta section.

And the RSS links in that section appear to generate errors.

The treatment of the default category seems odd. But I guess I see the design decisions….

An article can be in more than one category, so selecting another category (e.g. blog notes) doesn’t “turn off” the default “uncategorized” category …

But it’s hard to remember, for some reason.