5 Useful Guest Blogging WordPress Plugins

Guest Blogging WordPress Plugins
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Inviting guest authors to contribute on a blog is a win-win situation for both the blog admin and the guest author.

The admin gets a free high-quality post, and the guest author gets visibility on new turf.

Here at ShoutMeLoud, we have already discussed how to create a WordPress blog for guest posting. Now, you’ll need something that can help you manage these guest posts.

There are many WordPress plugins out there which will help you automate, or make guest posting easier on your blog. When I say automate, it doesn’t mean that the guest post will be automatically published, it means that the plugins will help you streamline the guest blogging process.

Here’s an example of that streamlined process:

When somebody submits a post, the editor gets a notification. When a post is rejected, the submitter gets a notification along with the editor’s notes.

Here I will be talking about four such plugins that are useful for guest blogging-enabled WordPress blogs.

Best Guest Blogging Plugins for WordPress

1. WP User Frontend PRO

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This is the most popular plugin when it comes to guest posts.

This one plugin will help you tackle the biggest challenges with guest post submissions.

You can create a front-end submission form (basically a page or a post) from where guest bloggers can submit a post for review.

You can even charge some amount of money for every submission. However, I suggest you do not use this feature during the starting days of your blog.

Here is a video demo of the WP User Frontend PRO plugin:

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You can also add additional features such as user listings & profiles, BuddyPress integration, and many other cool things.

The basic price of the plugin starts from $49, and it’s well-worth the purchase.

Check out WP User Frontend PRO from WPDevs

2. Peter’s Collaboration E-mails

This is a great WordPress plugin for guest posting.

Peters collaboration Email plugin
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Features:

  • When a contributor submits an article for review, this plugin sends an email to the admin so the post can be approved.
  • When an article is approved, the article contributor gets an email saying that his/her article has been approved. If the article gets approved and scheduled, then the contributor gets an email saying that the article has been scheduled, and the publishing date is shown. The contributor also receives the name of the article.
  • When the contributor’s article changes to “draft” from “pending”, the contributor gets an email saying that his/her article has been changed to “draft” and gives him/her a link to edit the post and re-submit it.

Check out Peter’s Collaboration E-mails

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3. Peter’s Post Notes

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This is another great plugin for guest blogging.

This plugin can be used in collaboration with the “Peter’s Collaboration E-mails” plugin.

This plugin adds a “Note” area on the post edit page on the right side. This “Note” section lets contributors and approvers write notes that come attached to the article.

For instance, if a contributor writes a tutorial and does not add screenshots, the approver can make a note saying “Add screenshots and re-submit.” Now the contributor understands the problem with the submission and can adjust accordingly.

This plugin makes collaboration between the contributor and admin simple and easy!

Note: If you are using the Status Notifier WordPress plugin, I would suggest you remove it and install Peter’s Collaboration E-mails and Peter’s Post Notes instead.

4. WangGuard

WangGuard WP Plugin
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One of the mistakes that I see many bloggers make is that they ask guest bloggers to send their post via email or in MS Word format.

There is nothing wrong with this, but it increases the amount of work for the editor. A good idea is to enable registration on your WordPress blog and let authors submit posts directly from the WordPress dashboard.

You should use the User Role Editor plugin to control what access your contributor will get.

Now, when you enable registration, you will also face the issue of spam registration and spam post submission. To combat this, you can install the WangGuard WordPress plugin.

I’m not going to go into much detail about this useful plugin because it’s already been covered on SML.

You can read about it here:

January 2018 update: Wangagurd plugin was a free project and is no more available. I’m looking for a good WangGuard alternative and will update as soon as I find something.

5. Members

Members WP Plugin
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Members WP Plugin gives you full control over your blog. It provides you a user interface from where you can manage user permissions on your site.

It allows you to edit, create, and delete roles. Also, you can manage capabilities of these roles. You can define one, two or multiple roles to any user.

This one plugin gives you shortcodes to control who has access to the content. A login form widget is also there which you can use in theme’s sidebar.

There are more guest-blogging WordPress plugins that can help you out, like the Editorial Calendar, but for now, these 5 plugins will ensure your blog is ready for guest post submissions.

If you still have any queries or know of more such useful plugins for guest author enabled blogs, do let me know via the comments.

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20 thoughts on “5 Useful Guest Blogging WordPress Plugins”

  1. Victor Ikani

    Thanks for sharing. I just got it as at the time I needed it. I will suggest you add this simple plugin to the list for spam control. Google Captcha (reCAPTCHA) by BestWebSoft

  2. Mehdi Hussen

    Have started my blogging journey, now looking to get some guest post for the blog. This will need proper management. Will test some of the plugins to reduce complexity and optimize the work process.

  3. sandeep kumar

    Thanks a lot now i am using wanguard plugin and now my blog is spam free.. of registraction

  4. Dibyajyotikabi

    This is the reason why I like WordPress so much, you don’t need to be a programmer for maintaining a blog, just download some great plugin and you are good to go.Thanks bro for sharing these plugins.

  5. Andrew Rezk

    It’s good to know that there are some useful plugins for guest posting,
    thanks for sharing this mate.
    Andrew

  6. Deepak

    Thanks a lot mate!! I was searching for some plugins to add to my blog to enable guest posting so these were really useful.

  7. Charan Pammi

    Great post bro. I am dying to find out the correct plugins that authors can directly submit their guest posts.

  8. Shruti

    Thank you! I was totally lost and had no idea about the action=register function until I imitated yours. I ended up using that, combined with the SI Captcha plugin and the User Submitted Posts plugin. My only beef is that it requires the new user/guest poster to deal with two different pages to first register and then submit the post. I hope some developer out there is working on a plugin that combines it all so it’s more intuitive for the guest.

    Thanks,
    Shruti

  9. Tech Moo

    Hi Mehesh, Your suggested plugins are the things i needed a lot, i am tired of sending confirmation mails to my contributors, this will save my 50% time and tension.. Thanks Man

  10. karl

    Just what I’m looking for. Never thought I’d find plugins for guest blogging. Thanks for sharing! 🙂

  11. Fareed khan

    I decide to add a guest blogger option to my blog, hope its help me..Thank you

  12. Anubhab

    The email feature is really an indispensable one… Thanks for informing about the plugins.

  13. tushar

    i believe that there will be more plugins for guest post coming as it is becoming a major promotion method these days. thanks for sharing

  14. Pumama

    I am using WP Status Notifications . This pluin is quite good but I am thinking to change from Status Notifications to Peter’s Collaboration Emails

  15. Sharat

    I am also accepting Guest Posts these days. But I am accepting guests posts through Email. I think with increase in traffic and guest posts I will need this plugin for sure.

    Thanks Mahesh for detailing on this guest blogging plugin.

  16. Raj

    These plugins are new for me but these are really usefull will be very useful when i enable guest post.

  17. Nguyen Trung

    this plugins very useful for blog want develop a network of collaborators to write article for blog, thanks for sharing

  18. Sandeep Singh

    I agree with you ! it simplifies and the communicaion link is build between them !!

    1. Mahesh

      Yes, it surely simplifies the communication between approver and writer.

  19. Glitz @ Glitzyblog

    Thanks for sharing this useful plugins mate. it will be useful for me when i enable guest posts in my blog.

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