Guest blogger role?

  • I often have guest bloggers and I would like their name to be displayed as the author. I have a plugin that can create and edit “roles”. I created a new role named “Guest Blogger” and did not give any privileges.

    My question is, what is the best way to be able to display a guest bloggers name as the person that wrote the post, without giving them any privileges, etc.

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  • You can create new roles with out the plugin. You can head to Dashboard>Users>Add new to create a new user.

    If you are an administrator you can attribute a post to any user even without logging in as that user.

    Thread Starter TBakerHR

    (@tbakerhr)

    OK…I created the new user as an Admin and it worked. However, I’d rather not make them an Admin. I’ll have to work around that problem later. At least I can post on their behalf now.

    Cheers.

    Now, why don’t you try and create an author and contributor just to see if it works?

    Thread Starter TBakerHR

    (@tbakerhr)

    OK…just tried creating a new Author and Contributor, but it doesn’t work.

    Do you think there is a general setting that says nobody less than Admin can create a post? Just wondering…

    Oh…and I tried going to create a new role as you described above, but I can only create a new User, not a new Role.

    Do you think there is a general setting that says nobody less than Admin can create a post?

    Not in WordPress by default. Have you tried:

    – deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

    – switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

    – resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

    Interesting. Do you have any other plugins/themes?Could you disable them for a brief period and check if it works?
    Authors are allowed to create a post and publish it while contributors can create them but not publish it.

    Thread Starter TBakerHR

    (@tbakerhr)

    I’m going to mess around with it later – disable plugins, change theme, etc, etc. I’ll see if that works.

    Here’s what is strange. I have 2 existing roles (currently Author) that show up in the drop-down menu. However, they were originally Admin roles. I changed them after a while. They still show up even after I changed their roles.

    Sigh…I’ll pick away at it.

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