24 SIGNIFICANT MULTI AUTHOR WORDPRESS PLUGINS

Multi author blog are the ultimate and a best way to generate a great amount of articles fast and big traffic to your blog. Setting up a powerful multi author blog doesn’t need just creating new profile to that author, you got to do something to manage fine tunings with this co-authors.

WordPress is great platform to setup your blog as multi author blog. Plugins are plays an important role in multi author blog. To manages co-ordination between the authors, to show authors details within their article, to show all authors bio to the outer world and in many cases this multi author plugin helps the blog developers to control strongly their blog.

If you are planning to invite new authors to your blog or already have one, I have a list of WordPress plugins that you should really bring into use.

Search related wordpress plugin

1. Insights

Insights allows you to Search your blog for posts, edit them or insert links to them into the current post, Insert Flickr Images, Insert Youtube videos, Search and link to Wikipedia, Search Google, Search News,Google Blog Search, Insert a Google Map.

Download the Insights plugin

Adsense related wordpress plugins

2. Adsense revenue sharing

If you use Adsense on your blog, it is an easy way to share the profit with them through this plugin, if you are not paying them directly.

AdSense Revenue Sharing is a wordpress plugin which allows you to easy display ads in your posts by using a quicktag and share your adsense impressions with your friends and co-authors.

Download Adsense Revenue Sharing plugin

3. Author Advertising plugin

Another option similar to above plugin is the Author Advertising plugin which does the same task. Allows blog admins to create a revenue sharing program utilising one of the many advertising programs out there i.e Yahoo, Google Adsense, Amazon, Allposters etc. It can also be used as a banner manager, author photo/website widgets.. actually it has about a zillion uses.

Download Author advertising plugin

Email Sending related wordpress plugins

4. Private Email

By default, WordPress lacks the ability to send emails to the registered users. This plugin does the jon for you by allowing you to send emails to your blog’s other author.To avoid misuse of its functionality, only users with the administrator role can send emails.

Download Private Email plugin

5. Email Users

A plugin for wordpress which allows you to send an email to the registered blog users. Users can send personal emails to each other. Power users can email groups of users and even notify group of users of posts.

Download Email users plugin

Roles and authorities management wordpress plugin

6. Manage Roles

This plugin helps to define what all functions a user can perform.You can change set of rules defined by wordpress , and customizing them for a particular author of your blog and granting some type of authority to handle their work.The Manage Roles Plugin do this job for you very easily.

Download Author Exposed plugin

8. Authors Widget

In multi author blog, Particular user wants to read the article about some of authors then, some algorithm should be their to sort author’s articles by their name. Its easy for user to jump directly to their article of particular author.

Authors Widget shows the list or cloud of the authors in the sidemenu.The author image plugin for WordPress lets you easily add author images on your site.

Download Author widget plugin

9. Author Image

This is another plugin, I love this plugin as it allows you easily add author images on your site. It creates a widget that you can insert in a sidebar.

Download Author image plugin

10. KNR Author List Widget

Displays a list of authors, contributors, editors, and administrators on the blog as an ordered list, unordered list, or a dropdown list.

Download KNR author list widget plugin

11. Author Avatars List

This plugin makes it easy to display lists of user avatars on your (multiuser) blog. It also allows to insert single avatars for blog users or any email address into a post or page.

Download author avatars list plugin

12. Post Avatar

Post author lets your authors stand on their own by adding an avatar to the start of their respective posts. It simplifies the process of including a picture when writing posts. Authors simply choose from a predefined list of images in the Write Post page to display an image in a post. A template tag displays the image with The Loop.

Download Post avatar plugin

13. Get Author Profile

Get Author Profile is a pretty basic WordPress plugin that lets you manually access an author’s (i.e. user’s) profile. The main purpose is to let you provide author information outside The Loop, such as for a sidebar intro of the blog owner or to list contributors to your blog.

Download Get author profile plugin

Blog’s activity tracker wordpress plugin

14. Audit Trail

Audit Trail is a plugin to keep track of what is going on inside your blog. It does this by recording certain actions (such as who logged in and when) and storing this information in the form of a log. Not only that but it records the full contents of posts (and pages) and allows you to restore a post to a previous version at any time.

This is particularly useful if you’re a micro-manager, or if you just want to know that your team is working. Audit Trail gives you access to a constantly updated list of every action that’s taken place in the WordPress dashboard from a user logging in to a post being published. It lets you see faulty logins (helpful in a case of attempted hacking)

Download audit trail

15. Blog Metrics

This plugin calculates the following:

  • average number of posts per month
  • average number of words per post
  • average number of comments per post without your own comments
  • average number of trackbacks per post
  • average number of words used in comments to posts

and it calculates the same data for the last month, and for each author too! Includes a widget for your sidebar too!Blog Metrics displays the specs of your blog, including number of posts per author, average words per post, average comment length, etc.

The reports are very easy to understand, you can get everything you need to know at a glance from the WordPress dashboard.

Download blog metrics plugin

Notes to dashboard wordpress plugins

16. Dashboard Notepad

This is a text box that sits on your dashboard’s home page, and allows all users to write a note, and save it for the rest of the users to see. This is helpful if you will be doing site maintenance and need to alert your co-authors.

Download Dashboard plugin

17. WordPress Admin Notepad

WordPress Admin Notepad automatically creates a show/hide notepad toggle at top right corner (beside log out link) so that admin can save their notes no matter where they are.

You can now configure the permission to view or edit the notes for the 4 user levels (editors, author, contributor and subscriber).You can now save the state of notepad (visible or hidden)

Download WordPress admin plugin

18. Private Messages For WordPress

A good alternative to the admin message board is ‘Private Messages For WordPress’. The plugin allows any user to send messages to one another via your blog. You can determine how many messages each user group gets and even switch the feature off altogether

A great way to keep your authors informed as they will see their messages whenever they view your blog when logged in.

Download Private Messages plugin

Comment related wordpress plugin

19. Author Comment

With so many authors, your typical comment highlighting plugin may be a little confusable for multi author blog. Also, if your authors comment on each other’s posts, it may be confusing to your readers who are trying to engage in conversation. Author Comment allows only the author of that specific post to have highlighted comments, making it simple for readers to recognize who to address or respond to.

This plugin is highly useful for all multi author blog for improving their comment section.

Download author comment plugin

Post publish related wordpress plugins

20. Future Calendar

Future Calendar adds a tiny, calendar to your Edit Post page, it located above the Publish menu, highlighting the days on which you have posts scheduled to pubish. This keeps your authors from double-posting on a day where other content is already scheduled, as well as see days that need content.

Download Future calendar plugin

21. Pre-Publish Reminder

This plugin displays a configurable list of reminders on the post administration screen.

Your reminders are input through the WordPress administration interface, and you can format them in a variety of ways. You can change the text color, background color, and make the text strong, emphasized, and underlined. Reminders are stored as posts in the database.

Use this feature to make sure that you’ve completed everything that you should have.

Download Pre-publish reminder plugin

22. Auto-Schedule Posts

Auto-Schedule posts catches posts as they are published and holding them until the previously set criteria are met for the proper publication time.You can set publication between certain hours, limit publication to certain days, and specify a minimum time period between posts.

Download auto schedule post plugin

23. Edit Flow

This plugin adds post statuses such as assigned, pending review, pitch and waiting for feedback. You can also add your own custom statuses.This plugin helpful to improve editorial approval process.

The plugin also adds a range of new user groups such as reporters and copy editors.

If you have a lot of authors then you should check out Edit Flow as it will make your editorial process much smoother.

Download Edit Flow plugin

24. Hide Dashboard

This plugin lets you hide dashboard features from some users. The title just say it all.

Download Hide dashboard plugin

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