Editorial Process

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

Removing “HTTP://” From the_author_meta?

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>

Multiple Authors on a Single Blog

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

Exclude Author by ID

Where $that_user_your_filtering_out is the user/author ID you wan’t to filter out, make this modification to your loop foreach ($blogusers as $bloguser) { // modification starts here if($bloguser->user_id == $that_user_your_filtering_out){ continue; } // modification ends here echo ‘<div class=”content-slider-body”>’; $user = get_userdata($bloguser->user_id);

Author Link Not Displaying

You have to use setup_postdata function if you want to use the_author_link with custom loop. Do it like this: <h2 class=”sidebarheaders”>Random Posts By You </h2> <br/> <?php $rand_posts = get_posts( array( ‘numberposts’ => 5, ‘orderby’ => ‘date’ ) ); foreach( $rand_posts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?><li><a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/89309/<?php the_permalink(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></li> Written … Read more