Hi Rob,
Thanks first of all. As I said, I may be making a mountain of a molehill. Maybe we can start easy and you can send me the instructions on how to correctly place the blog in the menu hierarchy.
To answer you questions (at least those for which I have answers):
The blog is initially (and maybe always) for a small group of faculty from several different institutions who are working on a collaborative project on (I know it’s a surprise) Agency, Character & Identity. At first, I will most likely initiate the majority of the blog posts, and we want all these others to be able to comment. We do also want each of them to be able to start a new thread as well, if they so choose. For the moment, I think we’d like it to be publicly visible, but only allow these 8 or 10 people to comment or start new threads.
As for the ‘categories’ questions: I do not have a reason to use them per se. My colleague at the ICJE, Maggie Smith, was given a brief tutorial on having one of these consortium websites that fall under OAR. They told her that we should not ever use the ‘categories’; I can’t explain the reason, and for all I know, that point is moot or has changed. The reason I thought maybe we needed the categories was because of something I read in the WordPress manual about getting a “post” to appear where you want it to. Is a blog set up as a “post” rather than as a “page” typically? All of this might be solved by placing it correctly in the menu hierarchy.
Here is the link for the parent website:
http://johnjayresearch.org
I don’t know if this really answers your question about how our site interacts with this one or what content gets pulled to the main page, but maybe it’s useful.
Thanks again. I really appreciate it. Please let me know what I should do next!
SF
