Multiple authors
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@ pombavou,
No worries. I’ve got to work on limiting my own whoppers in the future.Spoke to my friend through SKYPE and he said that even when he was in his own WP account, he could not get in as author on my site.
Did you’re friend accept the invitation? Actually, it’s not even clear to me by reading the Inviting Contributors, Followers, and Viewers support page that accepting the invitation is necessary. I’d been under the impression that it was necessary, but the fourth step of the instructions in the “Invite People to Contribute to Your Blog” section of the support page reads merely:
4. Click the Send Invitation button.
Your new user will now be able to access your blog by visiting the My Blogs section of their dashboard when they log in to WordPress.com.
It says nothing at all about accepting the invitation. I’m going to subscribe to the topic, because the process of invitation and acceptance of an invitation is not at all clear to me.
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I neglected to add that my friend said he was going to try to get some support on this from his end. He thinks it’s a “glitch.”
Thanks.
DM
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Hi Dr. Mills,
Can you please ask your friend to log in to his WordPress.com account, copy the link from the bottom of his invitation email, and then paste that link into the browser where he is logged in to WordPress.com? That will accept the invitation and add him as an author.
If you have any questions about that process, please let me know. If those steps don’t work for your friend, please ask him to send an email to help@wordpress.com (he should send the email from the email address where you sent the invitation) and we can help him through it.
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Hello .. i have recently returned to my blog after about 9 months lol… there are two authors… we are both admin.. the problem is that when i used to post things… i could choose from the author’s drop down at the bottom..this was easy because the other AUTHOR/ADMIN would email me her posts sometimes and i would just place them in the blog posts ..make adjustments, add nuances but STILL GIVE SAID AUTHOR the visual credit… now there are no drop down menus and i can’t post for anyone else… WHAT DO I DO NOW.. i would like to continue to post as we did before .. HELP …
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My other “author” is not admin as well;but he can’t even accept my invitation, which has been issued for days. WP won’t let him in even though he’s a member, too. I must say the site has at least three or four links to “help,” but nothing consistent. The current set up, IMHO, is pretty incoherent.
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@pombavou
I have answered as many as 6 – 8 pages of threads with 30 threads in each one each day for 9 years now and I tend do so at “warp” speed while I am multitasking from my business.I humbly apologize for being visually challenged, and for not meticulously proofreading my comments and correctly all grammatical mistakes and typos before their submission.
Below is an edited copy for the record.
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.
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.
See here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/If that has been done, then post the invitee’s WordPress.COM username here and type modlook for Staff help into the sidebar of this thread. Then to subscribe to this thread so you are notified when Staff respond to it please look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.
@musicdoc1
Thanks for your assistance in this thread.@rachelmcr (Staff)
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Hi Dr. Mills (pombavou),
My other “author” is not admin as well;but he can’t even accept my invitation, which has been issued for days.
Can you please ask your friend to log in to his WordPress.com account, copy the link from the bottom of his invitation email, and then paste that link into the browser where he is logged in to WordPress.com? That will accept the invitation and add him as an author.
If that doesn’t work, please ask him to email us directly at help@wordpress.com so we can continue helping him with that invitation.
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Hi, Timetheif,
The help folks have responded and I just forwarded the suggested procedure to my friend. He'll be trying it out by tomorrow I think.
BTW, the part that is confusing is “If that has been done, then post the invitee's WordPress.COM username here [where is “here”?the demonstrative pronoun doesn't point to a prior noun–a particular place–as it should] and type modlook for Staff help into the sidebar of this thread.”
Thanks for all your efforts!
Dr. M.
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