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If you are planning to start a multi author blog, then this article is must for you. Today I am going to tell you some of the most important steps you must follow in order to make your blog a multi author. Lets start :
Basic Changes
First of all, in your Wordpress Dashboard under Settings open General.
Put a tick on Anyone can register and set the new user default role to Contributor and at the bottom click on Save Changes. This will allow new users to register to your site.
Displaying Post Author Name
In multiauthor blogs you can see that below every post, the name of the author comes linking to author’s profile page. To do this, you have to make the following changes.
Go to index.php file and paste the following code where you want the Author Name to appear.
Posted by <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?>
Do, the same for single.php file also.
Configuring Author Role
You can easily configure authors role with a plugin called Role Manager.
To know the role in detail visit this post of mine on Types Of Users
Displaying List of all Authors
If you want to show the list of all authors of your blog in the sidebar, simply paste the following code.
<?php wp_list_authors(); ?>
Alternate method : You can also use a plugin called List Authors that will make your work easier. It will display a list of authors in your WordPress Sidebar Widget
Displaying Author profile
If you want to display the biography of the author at the end of every post here is simple tutorial for you. Visit this post of mine.
Also visit : 35 Tips Tricks To Manage and Handle Multi-Author Blogs
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Gaganpreet Singh on December 5, 2009 | Filed Under Wordpress
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nice one…
This template looks much better than the previous one dude. I think you can also make few changes to make this one look better.
Nice post. I’m planning to start guest blogging on SlodBlogger soon after a theme and new features upgrade. Might seek your help that time
Anytime, Bapun..
I had to use Role Manager to set what other authors/users could do and not do. I had a few guest bloggers sign up for posts, but they could not upload images. Once I installed Role Manager plugin and changed a few settings, they could upload images.
Hey George, I was also facing problem that users cannot upload images and was not finding any solution. Thanks for the tip.