Co-authorship
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Certainly, but there is no way to incorporate two names into the Author data for a post. You can simply type out an old-fashioned byline if you want, and link it to the Author page for each person.
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Which would simply mean capability for blog administrator to activate at least a 2nd author field /similar.
This is a very basic feature available for most relational database software pkgs. in the past….20 years!
This is the 21st century. There’s other content management software plus business work processes which trumpet and actively encourage collaboration/team work on projects, including writing of some articles, then this is definitely a feature that for users on wordpress.com, it would be helpful. It may take their wordpress blogger subscribers into their existing paid services.
Let’s get real: the college/university yacademic world (which researchers are using wordpress.com if they lack research grant money) often produces papers together.
It may well be that there is not much response right now in these forums because alot of forum participants who need this feature have either abandoned wordpress, are not monitoring or haven’t submitted their wish list of needs to wordpress.
For personal, one-only bloggers per blog, they may not see the urgency since they are the sole author of their blog(s).
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@maidiebike, Joomla doesn’t allow two authors, unless you hack the code, Drupal doesn’t allow two authors unless you hack the code, wordpress self-hosted doesn’t allow two authors unless you hack the code, blogger doesn’t, typepad doesn’t, live journal doesn’t.
In the nearly 4 years I’ve been a volunteer here, I can count the number of times this has been requested on one hand.
Typically anyone doing college/university academic work is working on custom software written by the university, or a contractor for the university. They aren’t going to be using wordpress.COM since the university is going to require tight control over the data so that nothing happens to it. They simply aren’t going to trust it outside their control. I have friends doing research at and for universities, and they are completely and totally anal about their research and data to the point of paranoia.
Seriously…
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You can do multiple authors by hosting your blog yourself using the wordpress.ORG software and use one of the multi-author plugins (figure $10 to $25 per month depending on bandwidth and storage requirements).
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=multiple+author&sort=
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WordPress software is used by many news groups – they just have a byline on the top listing both names at the top of the story – Categories or Tags can be made and each author credited with the story etc. if they have a single name – or the name that is shown could show both names if the name field is long enough –
I think that @maidiebike just likes to bash WordPress software.
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Yeah, I wonder about that too.
Most news stories I see have a byline right at the beginning of the post. That is standard practice in the media, and has been for a long eons. And really, that byline needs to be right at the beginning of the post/article, not buried in the metadata at the beginning or end of a post.
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Right now the single author is not buried in metadata. It is underneath the post title. But yes with mike’s workaround, by putting authors in categories or tags, they would be buried at bottom/elsewhere in metadata info. on the blog screen.
Thx for the workaround mike99362. I’m not out to bash wordpress.
Lots of people co-author or there’s 3 authors for 1 document. Not even university research oriented. Think of non-profits and community groups that have a few staff who can’t always specialize in 1 job role. And they like the ease of wordpress.com from the IT administration side. So they collaborate and pool their brains, writing skills together.
Is this wordpress bashing? I think not. I’m not the only one suggesting different improvements for wordpress.com.
Yes, I have software expectations after working with other software and being the person for client info. requests.
But hmmmm, maybe wordpress.com is the mom-‘n-pop version to wordpress.org.
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