The PublishPress Authors plugin offers three ways to create author accounts:
- Registered Author With User Account: This is an author profile for a current user account. You can select users who are allowed to edit posts. This user will be able to update their profile.
- Guest Author With User Account: This is an author profile and a linked user account. This account will be in the “Guest Author” role and will not be able to login to the WordPress dashboard or update their profile. This option is best for compatibility with other themes and plugins.
- Guest Author With No User Account: This is an author profile with no linked user account. This option is lightweight but may have compatibility issues with other themes and plugins.
In this guide, we'll introduce “Registered Author With User Account” and show you how to set up profiles for your users.
- Go to “Authors” in your WordPress admin menu.
- Registered Author With User Account: Select any existing WordPress account.
- Name: Choose a name for your new author profile.
Once the author profile exists, you'll be able to see both “Edit User” and “Edit Author Profile” links. This tells you that the user is successfully linked to the author profile. Their information will be automatically pulled from the user account and added to the author profile.
When this user logs into the site they will now be able see an “Author Profile” link in the WordPress admin menu.
When writing a post, users will now be to select this new author profile and attach it to posts, as in the image below:
