{"id":7989,"date":"2023-06-19T11:30:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T11:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=7989"},"modified":"2023-07-21T13:16:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T13:16:17","slug":"authors-management","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/knowledge-base\/authors-management\/","title":{"rendered":"6. Authors management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To allow new author<strong>s please make sure to have WooCommerce up and configured.<\/strong> You will then have an account named &#8220;my account&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors can register from that page.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Otherwise <strong>you can manually add authors from Users &gt; Add new in your WordPress admin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"920\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jKvkvnbwsiM?list=PLYmzFop3QeBmV3JfHhsnzKEY8JV9cIpi0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"to-allow-authors-creating-podcasts\" >To allow authors creating podcasts:<\/h2>\n<p>1) To to <strong>Users<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2) Edit the user you cant to set as author<\/p>\n<p>3)\u00a0<strong>Set the role as Podcast author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/133_pdws-podcast-author.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"439\" height=\"71\" \/><\/p>\n<p>4) Remember to save, clicking <strong>&#8220;update user&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"user-interface\" >User interface<\/h2>\n<p>Now this user will find 2 additional buttons in his account screen, linking to the admin interface, which he can use to create new podcasts or manage existing ones.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/134_pdws-author-screen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1367\" height=\"793\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"how-to-manage-author-privileges\" >How to manage author privileges<\/h2>\n<p>Click on <strong>User Manager<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Authors Permissions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/135_pdws-author-permissions.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"926\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From this screen you can manage what an author can and cannot do.<\/p>\n<p>If you know the authors very well, you can allow them publishing and editing their own contents, otherwise is not recommended since you&#8217;re legally responsible of what is published on your site, and is better to manually review and approve the contents before going public.<\/p>\n<p>The recommended settings are as follows:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/136_pdws-authors-settings.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1378\" height=\"970\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With this plugin you can limit an author to seeing, using and deleting only his own Series and Seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, categories can be shared among authors.<\/p>\n<p>If you have for instance a category named &#8220;card&#8221; you want multiple podcasts on that topic to be assigned to this same category, for this reason multiple users can have access to its creation.<\/p>\n<p>Consider authors can create unrestricted categories in terms of contents and quantity.<\/p>\n<p>For this reason we added an option to only allow authors selecting the categories among the existing ones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So as Administrator you can add categories that are missing, and the authors are limited to choose thoose categories. This option is very very recommended.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WordPress doesn&#8217;t have the possibility to allow an author creating categories as draft, and if an author can create a category he can also edit them and edit other people&#8217;s categorie, which is not recommended.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, if a category is missing, an author should contact the site administrator and ask to add such category or subcategory, which will be available for every other author globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht_kb_category":[540],"ht_kb_tag":[812,857,855,858,856],"class_list":["post-7989","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-podcasts-and-episodes","ht_kb_tag-authors","ht_kb_tag-contributors","ht_kb_tag-permissions","ht_kb_tag-privileges","ht_kb_tag-users"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/7989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7989"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/7989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8195,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/7989\/revisions\/8195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_category?post=7989"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuals.qantumthemes.xyz\/wpcasterpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_tag?post=7989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}