This is a multi-part question, so I’ll break it down. You’re already able to have multiple authors on a site, with WordPress’s default setup. There are several ways to restrict the categories they publish to. One is through categories. This would rely on the honor system, and on them selecting the correct category. It’s also … Read more
These are outside of the foreach loop: $twitter = get_the_author_meta(‘twitter’, $author_id); $facebook = get_the_author_meta(‘facebook’, $author_id); $googleplus = get_the_author_meta(‘googleplus’, $author_id); $linkedin = get_the_author_meta(‘linkedin’, $author_id); $instagram = get_the_author_meta(‘instagram’, $author_id); $youtube = get_the_author_meta(‘youtube’, $author_id); $email = get_the_author_meta(’email’, $author_id); So (remove that, and) try using $coauthor->ID with get_the_author_meta() like this: <div class=”author-box-social-icons”> <?php if( $email = get_the_author_meta( ’email’, $coauthor->ID … Read more
Author info is two steps: Link pages on your site to the Author’s Google+ Profile, the easiest way being a rel=”author” <link /> tag in the <head> section. Authors link the the site on their Google+ profile, the “contributes to” section (or whatever that happens to be called. Step 1 has to do with WordPress. … Read more
the easiest way is to use this plugin: http://wordpress.org/plugins/guest-posts/ Offer your blog guests or unregistered blog readers an opportunity to post on your WordPress blog without registering themselves. Guest Posts will help you to create a strong interaction and engagement with your blog readers. This plugin will create a form where your guests can submit … Read more
Just wanted to mention some alternatives: Alternative #1 You say you don’t want to edit the comments.php file in the current theme directory. If we need to change how the wp_list_comments() works, we can always modify it through the wp_list_comments_args filter. For example to add our own callback: add_filter( ‘wp_list_comments_args’, function( $r ) { if( … Read more
Easy way: use this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/ More complicated way: You can use functions.php to add all of the custom capabilities to a specific roles. But ofc you need a name of these capabilities. This code is usefull if you want to add X same capabilities to X roles. Add to functions.php function wphm_add_custom_capabilities_to_roles($roles, $capabilities) { … Read more
Probably the easiest way is to use a plugin. Ultimate Member – User Profile & Membership Plugin is a good one. Activate it on your site, then in the settings you can limit your site to be accessed only by logged in users. If they are not logged in, you can redirect them to the … Read more
WordPress doesn’t show all posts of a specific author
Post authors are stored in the wp_posts table under the post_author column. Check the database description. The author in that table is stored as an ID number which references the ID in the wp_users table. Additional user information is kept in the wp_usermeta table. I have no idea what you may have to do to … Read more
Have you checked the database for User’s url. Maybe that’s what they used for registering. What about this scenario – For admin, the default value of url is the blog url. User ID 2 used a url when registering. User ID 3 kept the url field blank when registering. You should fist check their url … Read more