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.
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.
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.
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.
Author’s information related wordpress plugin
7. Author Exposed
Author Exposed is a simple WordPress plugin, but very useful plugin for every multi author based blog, which allows your visitors an easy and elegant way to see more details about the post author.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
24. Hide Dashboard
This plugin lets you hide dashboard features from some users. The title just say it all.
Download Hide dashboard plugin
What’s you say guys ?
And that’s it. Lets us know about other plugin you’re using to manage your multi author blog, and share through comments.
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This is a huge list. I am planning to allow guest blogging in my blog which makes my blog a Multi Author blog. I hope some of the plugins listed here will help me in my process. Thanks for sharing.
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Viral Parmar (227 comments) Reply:
September 6th, 2010 at 8:38 PM
Sathish
That’s nice mate, allowing multi-authors, will definitely hike up traffic to your blog. I tried my best to gathered plugins for multi authors based blog. And thanks for your kind comment mate.
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Using some of them on my buddypress site, and hopefully use them too in my comptalks, lets see how it goes
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Great list! I had not seen Future Calendar before. I think it would be great when used in conjunction with Editorial Calendar, which gives you a great full-screen overview of scheduled posts.
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Viral Parmar (227 comments) Reply:
September 7th, 2010 at 10:25 AM
Stephanie
, I would recommend this plugin to our blog’s reader. Editorial calendar plugin
That’s great buddy. I have checked the Editorial calender, the best part of it that allows quick editing of article titles, contents, and times, and just easy drag and drop to change your posts date. Nice search
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excellent list bro
worth trying few of them.
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Viral Parmar (227 comments) Reply:
September 7th, 2010 at 10:01 AM
Technolic
Hey bro, thanks for coming by and for the kind comment.
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I was looking for the similar list for new blog – http://www.yourdigitalspace.com/ which is soon going to be a multi-authored blog
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Viral Parmar (227 comments) Reply:
September 7th, 2010 at 3:23 PM
Swamykant
Good news mate, and happy that this plugins will help you to build better multi-authored blog. Best wishes from my side.
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Hi Viral,
There are many useful plugins for wordpress blog, I haven’t use any plugins which you share, wow I will try one of them, thanks for nice article.
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Viral Parmar (227 comments) Reply:
September 7th, 2010 at 6:02 PM
Nguyen Trung
Your welcome, feel satisfied that you actually gonna use this plugins and thumbs up for your kind comment.
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Great Wp Plugins List Bro, presently I am using few plugins, and will try on my other blog, basically I try lots of plugins first in my computer using WAMP.
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Viral Parmar (227 comments) Reply:
September 8th, 2010 at 10:38 PM
That’s fine, really happy if you’re using listed plugin for your blog, feeling satisfied
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Wow.. now this is a very useful list for me! Thanks for sharing mate
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Viral Parmar (227 comments) Reply:
September 8th, 2010 at 10:41 PM
delighted that you liked the post. thanks for comment.
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Excellent list you have made
, and i have one query which one is best among this?.
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Viral Parmar (227 comments) Reply:
September 10th, 2010 at 4:32 PM
Vijay
Hey mate, all listed plugins have their different usage and features, choosing plugins its totally depends on your usage.How can I know which plugin your blog will need ? And Author exposed plugin will be good in that categories.Dashboard notepad plugin is what I prefer to use. And other categories doesn’t have many option. Hope you satisfied with answer. Thanks vijay for the comment
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vijay (9 comments) Reply:
September 10th, 2010 at 4:34 PM
Thanks for your reply
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Viral Parmar (227 comments) Reply:
September 10th, 2010 at 5:47 PM
your welcome vijay. Its great to have you here.
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wow….nice work done….
You almost got all things here….
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Viral thanks for the huge list, this collection definitely help me. Very cleared and neatly you’ve presented and listed.
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Thank you so much for the list. I’ve been looking for plugins that would really fit the business so thanks
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Viral Parmar (227 comments) Reply:
September 24th, 2010 at 7:56 PM
Your welcome, thanks for kind comment. Glad that you like it
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Nice collections and excellent share. Thanks for sharing
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Viral Parmar (227 comments) Reply:
November 4th, 2010 at 4:51 PM
Thanks Harley, Great to find its been useful for you..! Thanks for coming
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these are some of the useful plugins and our sites some of these plugins…
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Huge collection you’ve posted, you really rock man..!!!
many thanks for this fantastic post.. going to bookmark this one..
thank you so much for this wonderful share
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Viral Parmar (227 comments) Reply:
March 17th, 2011 at 6:18 PM
Really glad you liked the post and thanks buddy for the delightful comment
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This other plugin is great for managing what a user sees or doesn’t see when he/she reaches the admin page:
Admin Menu Editor
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/admin-menu-editor/
You can change the abilities necessary needed to show each part of the menu. Even sort it out as you wish, worked great for me.
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Thanks for a nice post dude 
really helpful for me now 
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