Authors widget

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  sfjanebooks · Member · Aug 1, 2015 at 1:54 am

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  I don’t understand how the author names get onto the list of authors???

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  kokkieh · Staff · Aug 1, 2015 at 2:38 pm

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  Hi there. For someone’s name to appear in that widget you will first need to add them as users on your blog via the Users ->Invite new section of the dashboard. Once they publish their own posts on the blog, depending on your widget settings, links to those posts will also appear in the widget.

  See here for a detailed description how the widget works: https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/authors-widget/

  See here for an overview of the different user roles and how to add users to your site: https://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/

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  sfjanebooks · Member · Aug 1, 2015 at 11:57 pm

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  Thanks for this info – I’m new at this as you can tell! Much appreciated.
  Jane

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  kokkieh · Staff · Aug 2, 2015 at 7:22 am

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  Glad I could help. And we were all new at this at one point :)