How do I add an author to my blog?
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Hello, I have created a blog to link to my business facebook page, website etc.. I am the administrator but most of the blogs will be written by my business partner. I have created an account (or new blog) for him as I thought this was required for him to be added as an author to the business blog. Unfortunately I just cannot work out how to add him as an author or where to find clear instructions on how to do this. Please help! Thank you in advance!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hello! There are a number of User Roles that you can assign to users. You will need to determine what role your business partner needs for the blog.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
Once you have figured out the role you want to assign your partner, it’s easy to add them to your blog.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#adding-users-to-your-site
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Hi daschultemn,
Thank you very much for your response and the links you attached. I have gone through the instructions and have been able to send the invitation from my account but I cannot see any mention of it on my partner’s account. He received the email invitation which he accepted and we have gone to the My Blogs section in his account as per the instruction on the support page but there isn’t anything we can see that relates to the invitation or the business blog that I have set up.
The instructions don’t go any further other than to direct us to the My Blogs section and this is where we are stuck! If you have any other suggestions I would really appreciate it! Thank you so much.
Cheers :-)
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By the way, I forgot to mention that the role we have selected for David is “author”. Not sure if this has any effect on what we might see in the My Blogs section…?
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Does he appear in this list of users?
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Hi again, no David’s not in the list. Just to clarify I created a completely new account/profile/blog for him as I couldn’t see anywhere to add him as a user to my blog without creating a new WordPress account for him. Is this the right thing to do? I’m completely new to blogging and WordPress so am still getting my head around how it all works! Than you again for taking the time to help a newbie.
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Hmmm…
Is David listed in the Past Invitations?
https://candofinance.wordpress.com/wp-admin/users.php?page=wpcom-invite-users
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Hurrah! Success! Yes, his username was there, sent by me, role as author etc. The date accepted status said “waiting” and then I had the actions option to resend or delete, which I had already done twice before. I tried it again though but instead of clicking on the “accept invitation” button in the email we clicked on the “if you’re having trouble click here” link and it worked!
So it wasn’t me really!! Phew! Thank you so much for helping daschultemn, we really appreciate it! We’d buy you a beer but I’m guessing you’re not in Aus!
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