Because WPHacks.com is a multi-author blog, it seems like at least once every week I get an email from our readers asking for more information about how to set up a multi-author blog.   How do you set one up?  How do you find people to write for you?

Over the past year I’ve written about a variety of tools, hacks, and plugins which anyone can use to build their WordPress installation into a WordPress blog, but they are scattered around a little bit.   If you’re looking for a consolidated post which provides a lot of this information in one place, I’m going to recommend a recent post over at Hongkiat which provides 35 tips and tricks to manage your multi-author blog.

A few notable plugins which I have not covered here yet:

• Co-Authors Plugin - Gives you the ability to assign multiple authors to a post.
• List Author Widget - Displays a list of authors in your WordPress Sidebar Widgets linking to the authors.php page.
• Draft Notification - Emails the admin whenever a new draft is saved or post is pending approval.
• Author Advertising - Allows revenue sharing among blog administrators.   Works with a number of advertising programs, including AdSense, Yahoo Publisher Network, etc.

Click here to read the other multi-author tools provided by Hongkiat!

Long ago, back when WordPress 2.0 was released, the concept of author/user roles was introduced to the WordPress community.  The problem I’ve always had is that these roles are pre-defined, meaning I can’t let a contributor upload photos, etc.

If you run a multi-author weblog, you may be interested in a WordPress plugin called the Role Manager plugin.  With this plugin, you can control what each role can and cannot do!