Adding Guest Authors
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Hello,
I cannot find the portal to add guest authors. I used to do it by clicking the ‘add guest author’ button, but now that button prompts me to a new post.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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You cannot provide username accounts and logins to others here at wordpress.com. Here your official users have to register their own wordpress.com accounts and passwords.
If you read this: Author – can write, upload photos to, edit, and publish their own posts. from https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/ and it suits you please read on.
You can have either a public or a private WordPress.COM hosted blog and there is no limitation on the total number of contributors to any blog. If you’d like to invite others to publish posts or help approve comments on your blog, you can invite them to be a Contributor, Editor, or Author. Contributors cannot upload images. If you want users to receive updates each time you publish new content you can invite them to be a follower/viewer.
To change blog visibility to Private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3. See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings
Then see:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#adding-users-to-your-site
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#adding-viewers-to-a-private-siteThe invitees will have to register a WordPress.COM username account which requires an email address only, but does not need to register a blog. That requirement is because the software has to be able to differentiate between hackers and official users and allow access only to those with username accounts and official roles on the blog.
Username accounts are required but registering blogs under them is not required.
If the person being invited to contribute to your blog does not already have one, he or she will have to register a WordPress.COM username account. Note that he or she does not need to register a blog. There is a just a username please option. The invitees who lack username accounts select the “username only” option here: https://signup.wordpress.com/signup/?user=1
NOTE that as you have an account you would have to log out and clear your browser cache https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-your-browser-cache and cookies https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-wordpress-com-cookies to witness the process as the invitees without accounts would experience it.
Upon receipt of the invitation the invitee will need to click the “Accept Invitation” button in the invitation email. If the invitee is logged into their WordPress.com username account, he or she will be taken directly to your blog. If not, he or she will be taken to the log-in screen, where he or she can either log in, or can register a new WordPress.COM user account.
Note that invitees who do create a new WordPress.com account at that point will still need to return to the invitation email and click the “Accept Invitation” button after doing so.
Note that invitees who do create a new WordPress.com account at that point will still need to return to the invitation email and click the “Accept Invitation” button after doing so.
Lastly, there is a built-in spammer prevention so send out only 10 invitations at one point in time and then wait and manage those before sending out 10 more.
See here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/ -
I only want to add an author to a by-line of a piece. I don’t want to create a user account for them.
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You cannot compel the software to create a byline for anyone who is not made an official author on the site. All you can do is type the name into the first line of their guest post that you will have to have emailed to you so you can publish it.
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How can I add them as authors on the site without having to email them to accept? I was able to do that for the past 9 months, but now cannot. Every time I click the “add guest author” button, I am now prompted to create a new post instead.
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Are you referring to this site http://legallyfitstudent.wordpress.com/?
If not post the URL of the site you refer to here.
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This is wordpress.COM support. We cannot answer any questions posted here accurately until we have the relevant URL and have confirmed hosting.
Note that about 30% of those who post here daily are posting to wrong support forum wasting their time and ours as the answers to wordpress.COM and WordPress.ORG support questions are not the same and we do not provide wordpress.ORG support.
We provide support only for wordpress.COM hosted sites. We cannot provide support for sites that are not on our servers. Our support docs do not apply to
(1) local installs of wordpress.ORG software on your own server or
(2) wordpress.ORG software installs on paid hosting, and we do not provide support for them at wordpress.COM. That support is found at http://wordpress.ORG/support/
(3) sites linked to wordpress.COM accounts with the Jetpack plugin so they display on the My Sites wordpress.com account page. That support is found at http://jetpack.com/support/WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, support docs and support forums, run different theme versions of themes with the same names, and many people get confused about the two. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
The wordpress.ORG support forums are at http://wordpress.org/support. The wordpress.ORG login link is here https://login.wordpress.org/ If you do not have an account yet then click Create an account https://login.wordpress.org/register/ and if you have lost an account password click Lost password? https://login.wordpress.org/lostpassword/
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Too bad you did not provide that URL up front. Always do that whenever you post to any online support forum about any site issues.
http://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/ is a WordPress VIP hosted site and we don’t provide support for it here. You must have a support link in your dashboard somewhere for VIP support that links to https://wordpressvip.zendesk.com/
I will type modlook into the sidebar tags on this thread for a VIP Staff follow-up. Please subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.
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Howdy!
A member of the VIP support staff is going to reach out by email. You can follow up with them directly there. Best wishes :)
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