Welcome all,
If you are a verified member of the Canberra writing community, either knowing members of the Sharing and Feedback group, or are a member of the group, then this page will guide you through how best to use the site.
This site is for use by all members as freely as you wish. Just keep in mind that whatever we post reflects on us all, so use your best judgement please.
Author role
Most established and trusted members will be assigned the author role.
As an author, you will be able to create your own posts for your work. As many as you wish, and edit your own author page, but not be able to change anyone else’s work, or update the main pages.
From the WordPress Dashboard, you should see a menu item for Posts (Green arrow)
The list you see will contain other members posts, which you can view, but as an Author, you will not be able to edit other peoples work.
Click the Add Post button to get started. You will see an empty page similar to the image below.
This is our space to share. So you are encouraged to use it, responsibly.
A few things to keep in mind.
Naming and Attribution
You will want to add a copyright mark for your work. All of your writing is fully owned by you the second you put pen to paper or press save on that first draft, but it’s still a good idea to make the attribution clear. © Your Name 2026 as an example.
The name of your piece will be used to automatically generate the ‘slug’ for the URL In the above example the link to find this post will be http://www.canberrawritershub.com/new-title
If you want the slug to be something different of more concise than your title, you can change it in the slug field
If you would like comments to be available, or not, you can select which at the orange arrow.
Images
You have permission to upload images. Keep in mind, that space is finite, so please make your image size as small as feasible as we are all sharing.
Check your work
At the green arrow is the button to change the display of your post. You will want to make sure any formatting works for phones, tablets and desktop computers.
Before Publishing (this can also be updated after)
Click on the Post tab and scroll down (red arrow) until you see the Categories section.
At the Purple arrow chose a category that best suits your piece and tick that checkbox. Your post will then be added to the list of pieces available to read on the blog (The links at the bottom of every page)
When you are ready to Publish, press the button at the Blue arrow (previous image), or schedule it for later publishing.
If you wish, you can add a password to your post so that only included people may read it. Add the Password in the STATUS field (under the published/draft options)
Pages
This is open to discussion, but pages are only able to be made/edited and deleted in WordPress by the Editor and Administrator roles.
Most people shouldn’t need to create a page for the site, aside from their author page (which is then linked under Our Authors)
By having the permissions set so that authors can ONLY edit and publish pages they are the creator of, then there won’t be too many hands trying to change the same pages, limits the number of people who can make mistakes, and any mistakes an author makes will only affect their own work.
We could allow Author role to create their own pages (using the Capabilities plug-in, available to administrators), but NOT be able to edit other writers pages to take some work off the Administrators, but then someone nefarious could create an unlinked page (like this one) which would have a valid URL to the shared site… it’s unlikely to be an issue, but worth considering any risks.
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