# Is it possible to use Discourse as a blogging system for users?

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**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [December 23, 2020, 2:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-discourse-as-a-blogging-system-for-users/174112 "2020-12-23T14:54:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![craigconstantine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/craigconstantine/32/511195_2.png) [@craigconstantine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/craigconstantine)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-use-discourse-as-a-blogging-system-for-users/174112/5 "2020-12-24T13:26:47Z")

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I tried this. It worked well, but none of my users used it…

- I created a group containing myself (as the “guinea pig” user).
- Created a category and gave that group Create, and everyone See/Reply.
- I added a theme component to add larger category descriptions (so I could put some “this is a blog” boilerplating up top)
- The group is necessary for the security, but it also would allow groups of people to co-author the blog

I was thinking I’d later make a parent Category, “Blogs” to sit above the various blogs if it came to that.

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