Chapter 3
Managing Users and Multiple Authors
IN THIS CHAPTER
Deciding what roles to assign users
Allowing new users to register
Adding a new user
Making changes to user profiles
Using tools to manage multiauthor sites
A multiauthor site involves inviting others to coauthor, or contribute articles, posts, pages, or other content to your site. You can expand the offerings on your website by using multiauthor publishing because you can have several people writing on different topics or offering different perspectives on the same topic. Many people use this type of site to create a collaborative writing space on the web, and WordPress doesn’t limit the number of authors you can add to your site.
Additionally, you can invite other people to register as subscribers, who don’t contribute content but are registered members of the site, which can have benefits too. (You could make some content available to registered users only, for example.)
This chapter takes you through the process of ...
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