Yes that’s the default behavior. When an “author” writes a post, he cannot publish it, only an “editor” (or higher) can do the publishing action. As for email notification, there are a couple of plugins for that, here are two : WP Status Notifier WP Pending Post Notifier
Have a look at this tutorial. It will teach you how to add a linkedin box to a user’s profile and how to display that in a post.
Take a look at this plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-htaccess-control/. It has support for rewriting author urls. Should be a quick and easy fix.
Assuming that the author’s id is $author_id, the following code should work. You can of course use this to create your own function. <?php $url = get_the_author_meta(‘user_url’, $author_id); ?> <a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/26599/<?php echo $url; ?>”><?php echo str_replace(‘http://’, ”, $url);?></a>
Can this help you? — http://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-post-to-show-one-post-per-author ps. I should add this as a comment, but I can’t, sorry.
I found the problem, this function was causing the problem…. function include_custom_post_types( $query ) { $custom_post_type = get_query_var( ‘post_type’ ); if ( is_archive() ) { if ( empty( $custom_post_type ) ) $query->set( ‘post_type’ , get_post_types() ); } if ( is_search() ) { if ( empty( $custom_post_type ) ) { $query->set( ‘post_type’ , array( ‘post’, ‘page’, … Read more
Not the most efficient way but it works, put this in your theme’s functions.php function author_post_breakdown($author_id){ //get all post of this author $n = get_posts(array( ‘author’ => $author_id, ‘posts_per_page’ => -1, ‘fields’ => ‘ids’ ) ); $cats= array(); //loop over all post of this author and get the categories for each post foreach((array)$n as $id){ … Read more
There is no limitation on the amount of users… There are some great plugins that would help you manage permissions and limitation you might want to empose to avoid problems.. Tip: Aritcle writers should a writer user level Email Users Plugin – This would help you send email to all users in one click. WyPiekacz … Read more
Do you want to change author? If yes, you can easily do from admin area. Go to domain.com/wp-admin/edit.php, press Quick Edit and select the user from dropdown.
You can use get_currentuserinfo() to find out a user’s role. To modify the wordpress admin bar, use the admin bar render hook.