How do I byline various authors that will be writing for my blog?
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Hi, I’m about to start a blog covering climate change negotations and related topics. There will be different authors writing for this blog. How do I byline them so that it’s clearly visible, as right now whatever I do gets a default byline of my own username?
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The point of displaying an author name is to differentiate the posts on an multi-author site. Whether or not a byline appears is theme dependent. Some themes do not provide bylines at all. Themes that do provide bylines require the person to be an actual official author of the blog. Regardless of the theme, and provided the theme is designed to display a byline, bylines will only display now if there are at least two authors who both have at least one published post in the blog.
Very few themes have an author profile that displays below every post. The data is derived from here > Dashboard > Users > My Profile > About You (section) and anything you add there appears on your Gravatar profile page as well.
For a list of themes that do or do not display author bylines and/or author profiles see > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/author-displayed-or-not/ The wpbtips post lists themes created up to December 2011. There is a newer post that lists themes created from January 2012 through July 2014: http://danielgreene.com/2014/07/20/blog-2014-free-wordpress-themes-that-show-author-bylines/
There is no limitation on the total number of authors. 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. If you want users to receive updates each time you publish new content you can invite them to be a follower/viewer.
See here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/As noted above they need accounts but do not need to register blogs. They will need to click the “Accept Invitation” button in the invitation email. If they are logged into their WordPress.com account, they will be taken directly to your blog. If not, they will be taken to the log-in screen, where they can either log in or create a new user account.
Note that users who 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.
The limit is 10 invitations at any point in time. It’s a spammer prevention limit. So simply wait and then send out 10 more.
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So is there no way to byline guest authors who will not necessarily have/want to have a wordpress account? I’ll be asking journalists or academics to contribute and I’m 99% sure they won’t have wordpress accounts nor will they want to bother setting up one.
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No there is not. You can type their names on the first line in the body of the posts and that’s it.
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Forgot to add: I found a few plugins that seem to let you insert bylines, but won’t they require me to download wordpress software on my computer, then sort out all those hosting issues etc etc?
Ideally, I’d like to run this website from the Web only if possible.
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Plugin installation possible only if you hire a web host http://wordpress.org/hosting/ and set up a WordPress.ORG install. http://wordpress.org
There is no FTP access to WordPress.COM blogs and we bloggers cannot install any plugins or third party themes.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/There is no other upgrade you can purchase here at WordPress.COM that changes that reality.
WordPress.org offers free software that you can install on a web server. You can upload and install themes and plugins, run ads, conduct ecommerce and edit the database. Learn about the differences here. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support forums.
If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the Theme support forums there.
Resetting your WordPress.ORG password http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password
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Thanks, timethief! Very informative and I think you’ve saved me some time that I’d spend searching how to get these plugins in somehow. I’ll stikk wordpress.com for the time being.
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