Can members write posts?

[maferra]

Hi - I’m a new Ghost user and after reading the documentation I’m not sure if I understood correctly the “members” and “staff” concepts. To clarify, please help me:

• I have installed a local copy of Ghost and created the admin user.
• I’ve created an account with Stripe to have membership payments.
• It seems that members can view all posts, but only staff can publish new posts.

I would like to have members to go through the Stripe membership process, but after that, they should be able to write posts. So, they need to be put as “staff” by invitation? That makes the process manual and when the subscription would expire, they would continue to have access, since they are on the staff side.

• I’m I missing something?
• Are these concepts correct? (are only members able to take the subscription process and are unable to write posts?)

Thank you for all your time and best regards,

[Hannah]

I recently answered that question in this post

Author-level signup

Hi. I’ve just set up my Ghost site and I’ve got a very specific purpose for my site. I’m wanting to create a community for writers where they can share their work. I’m sure such a process is possible through Ghost but I don’t know where to start. The main features I want are the following: users can sign up via their email and can automatically start writing posts. users get their own writer page (mysite.com/user) where their work is displayed users can tag their work and it then gets displaye…

And pointed at this post where you can vote

Blog with open user registration (like in a forum)

Could you say anything more about the upcoming Admin API? This is the first I have heard of it. What sorts of other things might it be used for?

Closing this as a duplicate of those threads. Please use our search feature