Hi,
I have asked a good friend of mine to write a guest post for my blog.
I have noticed in the dashboard that I can add users to my site. Should I add my friend as a user, so that she can put a post on my site in her own name, or should I post it for her. Obviously I would want to read the post she writes before she can post it to my site, but I am a bit hesitant in making her a user.
How do other people who have guest posts on their blogs deal with this?
Maria
When I guest post, I either write my post in Word and send it to the administrator or I'll be set up on the website's WordPress or Blogger platform if I'll be a recurring guest blogger. It's really up to you. If your friend will be a recurring guest blogger, I say set her up. If not, tell her to write her posts in Word, send them to you, and you can post them.
Hi Maria
The advantage to having her as a user - beyond just allowing her to type the posts in herself, is that you can then show her as the post author, and she can have an author profile page with a photo and bio. Otherwise, it shows up with you as the author.
You can set her with a user role of contributor, which allows her to write and save a post, but not to publish it. That way you can still look it over, and then publish it or schedule it to post whenever you like.
But all that said, I agree with Rebecca - if she's not going to be a regular blogger, you may not want to go to that trouble.
On TWE, I set every author up with their own username and login password, however many of the authors who contribute just email me their posts in a Word document and I paste it in, but at least this way I can still show them as the author and give them their own profile page.
Thanks for the help, guys. It's a bit clearer for me now. I think I will discuss it with my friend and see what she wants to do. I think having her as a contributor is a good idea, because I would like it if she is registered as the author of the post.
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