The key to a successful blog or website is good quality content, on a consistent basis. And what better way to do that than having multiple writers? After all, one person can only do so much by themselves. But unlike a sole author blob, managing a multi-authored blog requires a lot of meticulous planning and management to give both the writers and readers an easy-to-follow and smooth experience. This list of the best WordPress plugins for multi author blogs is going to help you minimize the hard work involved in managing such blogs and operating them.

Editorial Calendar

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‘Editorial Calendar’ is a gem of a plugin, as it allows you to manage which posts are scheduled for which day and by whom. After all, a properly planned out schedule is imperative to the continued success of any website or blog. The plugin allows you to create drafts right from the calendar itself and even schedule their times. These drafts can then be easily moved around from day to day and any changes to the draft will be updated as well. Furthermore, any edits, like posting dates etc, that you change from the Write/Edit screen of your post, are automatically changed on the calendar as well. All in all, ‘Editorial Calendar’ is a must-have for any blog.

Post Status Notifier Lite

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It can be hard to keep everyone up to speed about various things on a multi-author blog, like when posts are published, or have been reviewed by an editor, etc. ‘Post Status Notifier Lite’ helps in this regard as you are able to create individual notifications that are sent to their concerned recipients about all post status transitions of your blog, through emails. Get this plugin and make sure no one is left out of the loop ever again.

Post Pay Counter

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‘Post Pay Counter’ is one of the numerous revenue plugins currently available for WordPress. However, what sets this plugin apart is that it offers you the ability to set up payment calculations for your writers/authors on the basis of number of posts, number of words, visits, images, and comments, or even a combination of any of these parameters if you wish.

Fancier Author Box

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While standard WordPress blogs do come equipped with author bio capabilities, it’s generally advisable to use a separate plugin for more robust control and presentation of the said feature. ‘Fancier Author Box’ provides you with elegantly designed author bios that show the author’s latest post, their avatar and links to their social media account and can be placed at either the beginning or end of posts on your site. Also, you can customize the colors of these said boxes to have them match your site’s color scheme.

Author Avatars List

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This plugin doesn’t have as much to do with functionality, as it has to do with presentation. Complete with widget support, the ‘Author Avatars List’ plugin allows you create an entire page on your blog with all your authors’ avatars, which can be organized in various groups and come with control over their respective avatar sizes as well as usernames and bios. It’s a good way to bring the whole writing community of your blog in one, easy-to-find place.

Good Writer Checkify

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There’s no doubt that the secret to a successful blog, is high quality content on a consistent basis. While having multiple authors contribute to your blog does generate more content, it does not necessarily equate to consistency in terms of quality. ‘Good Writer Checkify’ tries to alleviate most of these problems by providing your authors a checklist (made duly by you) every time they access their write/edit screens, that focuses on aspects that are imperative to quality of the content, like expected keyword count, appropriate number of affiliate links, proper heading structures, proper paraphrasing, etc. Quite honestly, it’s an important tool even if you don’t have a multi-author blog.

User Access Manager

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Having a multitude of authors/writers can be downright overwhelming. And as the head of a prospectively flourishing blog, you certainly don’t want that. ‘User Access Manager’ gives you absolute and unprecedented control over your blog, as it allows you to assign different capabilities/permissions to different user groups, set access rules and post types guidelines, etc. Additional options like hiding posts/pages, limiting access to uploads, giving access by IP address and such, are also available. In really simple words, this plugin puts you in control of everything that happens on your blog.

Audit Trail

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Continuing on our notion to maintain control over the proceedings of your site, ‘Audit Trail’ is another plugin that makes the idea of micromanaging every aspect of your blog a lot easier than it should be. With this plugin, you are able to maintain a log of information about all the activity on your blog like who logged in and out of the site and when, who edited which posts, etc. An unprecedented advantage is that the plugin stores all drafts of your posts, regardless of who modified them at any time. What this means for you, is the ability to restore an edited post to an earlier version should you feel the edits or revisions are unnecessary or whatever, as well as check for particular changes made to the said posts. A very useful plugin.

User Notes

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A rather simple plugin, ‘User Notes’ is nevertheless a useful tool. Using this plugin you are able to leave notes on user profiles, which are only visible to the admins. The notes can be used to impart important reminders to yourself or others about particular details like an author who is on leave, or is due for an article, etc. Just simply add a note and be content that you’re not going to forget it now.

WP User Frontend

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Sometimes you don’t want other people accessing the admin area of your site. It’s quite a reasonable qualm, really. ‘WP User Front end’ looks to give you peace of mind as it allows authors to submit their posts directly from the front end of your website. With front end post submission, custom post type support, front end dashboard and profile editing available to you in just the free version (with a multitude of extra options available for subscribers), there’s no need to let anyone inside your site ever again.

In the current era of minimalist blogging, time is of more value than ever. And while we are at it, utilizing such plugins would make the job easier, less stressful and more assorted.

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