Today very few successful bloggers can exclusively write all of the content on their blogs. A majority of the top blogs on the web have a number of writers producing content for them on a regular basis. Inviting other bloggers and writers to become co-authors is a great way to expand one’s blog. After recruiting the writers, the next problem that the publisher faces is management of the writers and their content.

Managing multiple authors for a blog is never an easy task. When the publisher manages a multi-author blog he or she spends less time writing articles and more time handling the administrative tasks, such as generating content concepts, scheduling articles, managing authors and reviewing articles. It is often challenging to manage multiple authors, getting them to write quality content on schedule, making sure they do not miss deadlines, etc.

Luckily, there are many WordPress plugins available today to help publishers and media companies to manage multiple authors. If you are planning to turn your WordPress blog or website into a multi-author blog/website, then below is a list of five solutions that you might want to check out.

1. Betaout

Betaout is an editorial project management solution targeted at publishers running their sites on WordPress. A cloud based service Betaout plugins with WordPress installations. It offers a user friendly, sleek and highly intuitive interface.

Betaout empowers editors and publishers to create custom editorial workflows and allows proper placement of desks. Individual desk can have one or more users with same user roles. In addition, these desks can be shared across multiple publications providing publishers a highly conducive environment across their network. With Betaout, editors can follow assignments easily as they move from one desk to another and can collaborate efficiently within the interface.

With Betaout, edits can not only create and edit assignments but also track their changes and send feedback. This helps the editors to manage deadlines and set-up their own custom workflows. Editors can publish assignments directly onto their WordPress sites, once they are happy with their content thanks to a seamless integration between Betaout and WordPress platform.

2. Edit Flow

Edit Flow is a WordPress plugin for redefining the editorial stream of tasks. It basically empowers the users to create collaboration with the specific team inside the framework. It can be customized following the modular view of settings. Whenever I have used this plugin I have met with some stunning features as follows:

Calendar: A look ahead periodical presentation is attached with the system. It helps to have a record on periodic manner.

Custom status: Each step is prioritized with associated key. When the step has to be performed that key is called in the platform.

Editorial comments: This section is based on multithreading technique. We can get here the right to comment in between the private discussion of editors’ forum.

Editorial metadata: A logical abstraction is depicted from the realistic information. It prevents the data loss.

Notifications: A daily basis alert is made to the users so that they can update their ideas. It serves the way to make the growth in business.

Story budget: It is a foreseen view of the composition. It can generate a predictive outlook before the public exposure.

User groups: All the users are divided into certain groups based on department or their functionalities in the field. It helps to fix their portion of right in the task arena.

3. Role Scoper

Role Scoper is a comprehensive solution amongst all WordPress plugins. It provides the content specific limitations and supplementary roles in the work frame. Customization over the accessibility on specific posts, pages and categories are offered by Role Scoper. This is basically extended up to 1.2x version. If anyone is interested in friendly UI, then WP roles should be integrated within the system. It can explore moderate statuses and focuses on visibility. It can change the legitimate right of the users as per their actions and quality of task deposition. If this portion is deactivated by any means then it does not make any negative impact on the rest of the platform. It simply returns the standard WordPress to the users. It can also manage a bulk amount of admin panel without any interruption. If the discussion starts over the security, then it is a wise option to choose. The optimized inheritance excludes XML-RPC supports. Each attachment is filtered before directing to the URL address. The taxonomies are developed for contents so that the user can apply the inheritance for a sustainable growth. If the application programming interface comes in between, it allows an abstract display. It assists to fix the schema for a particular composition.

4. Revisionary

Revisionary another WordPress plugin works as the scheduled revision, if required. It enables the qualified users to modify and make changes on published documents. By making use of this plugin the contributors also have the power to check the immediate change for taking ultimate decision. It helps in enhancing the quality of the contents. With this plugin a partial list of features is constructed for faster operation. Users can simply suggest their views and ideas in the forum. These distinctive ideas are passed through the experts’ conversation. If the performance is satisfactory, then the right and scope is extended. At the same time, this specific mode of perception is taken in grant for the composition. Revisionary also provides the interface to give independent bug issues and other complicated restrictions. Author having the administrative privilege is found professional enough to make a consult any time. I have also used an enormous range of configuration, customization and troubleshooting phases. It is not much difficult to deploy. This step just makes a proper upgrade extracting the latest changes from technological factors. Revisionary has also made betterment in the field of blog wide conjunction.

5. Content Progress

Content Progress is an innovative feature that helps add icons to the content listing. These content listings may be in form of pages, posts and custom posts. Content progress helps identify, if a document is complete or not. However, we must remember that plug in cannot identify, if the page has been completely laid out or not but it will surely tell us that if there is actual content on the page. In case, no content on the page is visible, the document will be flagged as empty. If small quantity of content is present on the page, the document will be flagged as being partial. Empty posts get auto-detected through the plugin and the plugin also allows us to flag the specific documents too. The documents can too be flagged as being incomplete, regardless of the amount of content present on the page, in case some additions need to be made at a later stage. What better, for better communication between different groups, separate notes can be added to each of the post. Short codes that help generate front facing lists of pages are also available in this feature. Incomplete, partial, empty and need review are the short codes that will help produce underscore list of documents.

Managing a fully fledged team of freelancers is no more a problem now. I do not need to burn a hole in my pocket to keep my web site running and there is no skipping of deadlines anymore. Go ahead and try out the above mentioned plugins for your WordPress site and do let me know about your favorite plugin.

About the Author:

Margaret is a writer/blogger. She loves writing, reading and traveling. She contributes to devrover.com.