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accessibledestinations2014 · Member · Aug 4, 2015 at 2:18 pm
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I have a question about building a public forum. I have been asked to build a public forum for a group. but before I set up an Wp account for them. I need help about building it. he important part of it is. I need to be in control of it. What I mean is. I need people to be able to send there comments and/or questions to me first before they go public. Is there a simple and easy way about this? Thanks in advance.

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timethief · Member · Aug 4, 2015 at 2:37 pm
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There is no FTP access and no blogger installed plugin capability on any free hosted WordPress.COM blogs and there is no upgrade you can purchase here that changes that reality.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/

For your WordPress.COM blog you have three free workaround forum options (two of which are referred to above)<: http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/04/23/wordpress-com-forum-options/
One approach is to register a forum on the internet and then create a custom menu in your blog and include a custom link to the forum in it.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-custom-links

The Tlk.io widget allows you to embed a web chat in your WordPress.COM hosted blog. http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/tlk-io-widget/ There are no other chat options I know of that work on WordPress.COM blogs at this time.
accessibledestinations2014 · Member · Aug 4, 2015 at 2:47 pm
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I guess Forums and blogs are different from each other. Maybe a blog is what I need. I would like to be able to post a topic of discussion and people can comment. The only thing is. I would like to be able to view peoples comments before it is posted.
timethief · Member · Aug 4, 2015 at 2:50 pm
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The only thing is. I would like to be able to view peoples comments before it is posted.

You can do that on any blog. You do the same thing you do with an comments and moderate them. See Discussion settings > Moderation
https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#before-a-comment-appears
accessibledestinations2014 · Member · Aug 4, 2015 at 2:54 pm
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Ok. thank you very much for your time. It all makes sense.:)
timethief · Member · Aug 4, 2015 at 2:56 pm
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You’re welcome.

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