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I want to offer a free downloadable white paper relevant to my site's topic (college sports recruiting). The goal of course is to create a mailing list of people interested in the subject. I feel like this might be a laughably simple question, but I'm new to all of this. Is there a plugin for this, or does the system have the capability built in? I have a Mailchimp account and I suppose I'd want to integrate with that somehow, but I'm open to other options. - Pat

Never mind! My guest blogger is apparently much better at this stuff than I am and she figured it out! Next question, is there a way for me to delete this thread so I don't waste anyone's time with it?

I have a blog on my site https://www.recruitinginfo.com/ that is about college athletics and recruiting (both the site and the blog). I want to be able to feature guest bloggers on a regular basis and I'm not sure how to best achieve this. The first guest blogger posted in a way that essentially created a new blog. I don't think that really makes sense, because they are really only guesting on the main blog, not creating a whole new one. Also, as seen in the attached picture, when visiting the blog page you see the most recent post to "RecruitingInfo.com" blog, but for some reason the new one, "A Day in the Life", just shows a header. You have to click the header to see the content. So my questions are: Is there a way for someone else to post on the main "RecruitingInfo.com Blog", but their name and face will show up for that entry instead of mine? If not, perhaps I should create a separate "Guest Expert Blog" (or something like that). But can anyone recommend a better way to handle this? Why is the "A Day in the Life" blog not showing any content on the "Our Community Blogs" page? I should preface this by saying I am very new and inept with the forum software, and am generally not tech or programming savvy. So please use small words, lol. Pat

Thanks once more Adriano, you have been a tremendous help!! Pat

Thanks so much! Final question I promise... where to I adjust permissions so only I can add links? I've been poking around and can't find it anywhere.

I'm probably using the wrong term. Right now I have a Links Directory, and under that is the category "Resources". I want to add an additional category called "News".

Thanks for the guidance Adriano! That is the resource I have. I finally figured out the problem was: I hadn't added links to the menu manager so the page was essentially hidden (I'm REALLY new to all this). Two follow up questions... now that I have a links page, how to I add sub-menus. Like, I want one for resources, and one for news stories. And lastly, if I want to manage the links myself as admin and now allow users to add links, where do I adjust those permissions?

Are their any guides or tutorials on use of the Links Directory? I'm fairly new to the IPS system so everything is a mystery to me. I'm not sure how to: 1) Add the Links Directory to my site 2) Add links to the page As an alternative to the links directory, I'm wondering if there is a "news" plugin of some kind that I could use to link to news stories relevant to my site's subject (college sports recruiting). And if there was such a plugin, I probably wouldn't know how to install it or place it on the site, lol. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated! - Pat

Thanks Simonle... this kind of guidance is invaluable. Much appreciated!

Thanks! Where is the group promotion tool found?

Like, if I wanted the first 1,000 people who joint and post to be called "Founding Members" and have that appear under their name, how would I do it? I assume I create a new group and then somehow add them to the group? Is there a way to automatically assign the first X number of signups to the group? I realize these are probably a dumb/obvious questions... but I really have no idea what I'm doing. Here is the site: https://www.recruitinginfo.com/ I've populated it with a decent amount of content (videos mostly), and now I want to start to draw people in.

Is there a way to select how many videos are included in the "latest videos" section? And in a related question, can I select videos to be featured, or are they always based on most recently added?

I’m all set now SC36DC, thanks for your guidance!

I’ll do that .... thanks!! Pat

I would like to have a page where the videos live, and then a way to preview a handful of them on the main page of the site. I’m pretty inept at this, so could use very basic instructions. Thus far other than installing the plugin I’ve done nothing. Pat