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January 20th, 2008 by Scott 
Did you know that you create a new WordPress user, and set them to ‘contributor’ rather than to author or editor? When you do that, their option after writing a post automatically changes to ’submit for review’ rather than ‘publish’. It’s pretty slick, and seems like it would be a good way to encourage guest authors on the blog… I added a new user, then logged in to post as that new user, and here’s what I saw at the “Write” screen -
Unfortunately, this option then prevents those “Contributors” from being able to add photos to a post, which is a shame.. After hitting the “Submit for Review button, I logged out, then back in as the Admin, and I see that there is a post pending for review – Nice
There was also no email notification to me as the Admin that a contributor had posted, but I guess you can’t have everything. If anyone knows how to allow for photo uploads or add email notifications, please let me know here… | ||||
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February 24th, 2008 at 7:14 am
Use the ‘Role Manager’-Plugin! I just had the same problem and this will solve it. You got a list of things you can allow/disallow for each user type.
Next problem is to control the image size of the uploads so they don’t break your design: Get the ‘flexible upload’-plugin to define fixed heights/widths and a zillion other things.
If you know of a solution for the email notification, please let me know …
cheers
r.
February 24th, 2008 at 7:45 am
just solved the 2nd problem too (email notification):
1) get Plugin ‘draft-notification’
http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/draft-notification-plugin-for-wordpress/
2) change the following:
old:
if ($result->post_status == “draft”)
new:
if ($result->post_status == “pending”)
optional changes:
-add a from email to the mail function so the email looks better
-change text elements to fit your needs
mail me if you got a question
cheers again
r.
February 24th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Thanks Raffi –
We’ll check those out! Much appreciated!
April 11th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Hi, I’d written a plugin specifically for e-mail notifications with this feature:
http://www.theblog.ca/wordpress-collaboration-emails