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Inviting other bloggers and writers to become co-authors is one great way to expand one’s blog. Assuming the recruiting of writers part is being taken care of, the next big problem you could be facing is management. Managing multiple authors for a blog is never an easy task. It’s often a challenge to keep co-authors in control, getting them to write quality content on schedule, making sure they did not miss anything before hitting the publish button, etc. Also sometimes you might also want to give different authors different level of accessibility and controls, depending on their performances.
Luckily there are lots of WordPress plugins and resources out there to help owners and administrators to manage co-authors. If you are planning to turn your blog into a multi-author blog, here’s 35 Tips Tricks To Manage and Handle Multi-Author Blogs you might want to check out.
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Managing Blog Posts

If you have more than 5 authors on a particular blog, managing the daily published entries can be tedious especially when rules and checklists are not properly laid out. Even if they are, they might not be followed at the times. Dealing with situations like this, some plugins could be your life-savers, or at least making blog postings more efficient.

• Future Posts Calendar Adds a simple month-by-month calendar that shows all the months you have future posts for (and the current month no matter what), it highlights the days you have posts for, and as an added bonus if you click a day the Post Timestamp boxes change to that day, month and year. Pretty handy to organize and plan blog post for a multi authors blog. Also comes in form of widget.
  
  
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• Pre-Publish Reminder A friendly checklist for you and your co-authors before they hit the publish button to place any blog article live on the main page.
  
  Similar plugins: Pre-Publish Reminders by Nick Ohrn, Category Remindr for those who forget inserting categories.
  
• Draft Notification This WordPress plugin automatically emails the admin when a new draft is saved. The email contains the post’s title, the author, and a link. There is no options page currently, because there is really nothing to configure. The plugin now supports the new ‘pending’ status.
  Similar Plugins: Draft Notifier
  
• Co-Authors Allows multiple authors to be associated with a post. Co-authored posts appear on a co-author’s posts page and feed. Additionally, co-authors may edit the posts they are associated with, and co-authors who are contributors may only edit posts if they have not been published (as is usual).
  
  Similar Plugins: Multi Authors
  
• Audit Trail Plugin 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.
  
  
• Report Posts This allows your user to report any post they find not appropriate. Think of it as seeking users help on quality control. Reported posts then appear in the manage section of the admin console.
  
• Gravatar plugin For Multiple Authors WordPress plugin that provides multi users to show their respective gravatars on their authored posts.
  

Managing Multi Authors

Sometimes you might want to give some authors a higher access over the others. By that we mean giving them the access to publish content without your moderation or perhaps access to sensitive areas you won’t share with the rest. These following plugins allow you to administrate your fellow authors the way you prefer.

• Role Manager Reworked from the previous version of Role Manager Plugin is written by David House and Owen Winkler. This plugin allows you to control roles and access for different authors on your blog.
  
  Similar plugins: Role Scoper
  
• Draft Control The WordPress Plugin "Draft Control" allows users above level 5 to view drafts in a nice row paging system.
  
• Hide Dashboard A pretty self-explanatory plugin. The reason why you would need this is when you have multiple authors on your blog and you want to hide (or customize) the dashboards.
  
• WP-Group Restriction Wp-group-restriction is a WordPress plugin that enhances the current user role feature, by allowing administrators to manage access to content (i.e., pages).
  
• Adminimize The plugin changes the administration backend and gives you the power to assign rights on certain parts. Admins can activate/deactivate every part of the menu and even parts of the submenu.
  

Authors Profiles

When co-authors write for your blog, the least you can do (if there’s no revenue sharing involved) is to publish a decent author’s profile as token of appreciation. Proper credits on authors are important, it shows how much you appreciate their work. Here are some plugins to place a decent Author’s Profile on blog post, or anywhere in the blog.

• Post Avatar 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.
  
• User Photo Allows you to associate authors’ profile photos with their account under Your Profile , or any other pages with the use of tags like userphoto_the_author_photo(), userphoto_the_author_thumbnail() etc.
  
  
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