What will I learn to do?
As you learned in the Overview level, the authors are the staff members of your site.
They write articles and comment on other articles.
When authorized, if they are Administrators, they can manage the site’s structure and configuration.
In this lesson, you will learn how to:
The Authors page will look like this when you’re done:
Create each author with a unique name and password
Describe their role within the site
Delete an author and change their personal information if necessary
First, watch the steps
Before you begin, you should have the basic information for the author you want to add.
You are logged in as an administrator, and you are at the Launch Pad:
Roll the mouse over the Authors icon (do NOT click on Authors)
As the mouse hovers, two sub-icons appear below
Click on the “Create an Author” sub-icon
You see the form you need to fill to add a new author
Although the form says “You” (ex: your name, your email address” etc.), it is referring to the author...
The email address of an author is not visible to anyone but the administrator, and can only be changed by the administrator.
Type the Signature/Name, email address and a short biography of the author
The only required part of this form is the signature
What’s a biography for?
The biography is optional. The authors themselves can change the wording of it.
It appears on the public site, when a reader clicks the link for the author’s name.
Biography is useful to introduce the author to your audience. It gives credibility to your author.
If they are an editor for your site, you could say which section they are the editor for.
You could also decide to just state what the author’s specialty is.
Whatever information concerning the author you decide to include, it’s better if your site is consistent in the biography type and style. It will look unprofessional if, for example, you have some authors who have a long and detailed biography, and other authors who have only half a sentence.
If the author has his or her own web site or blog, you can type the name and URL in the "WEB SITE" block
If you want to record the public PGP encryption key for files from this author, you can do it in the block called "Your PGP key"
When setting up passwords, it’s better to use a combination of letters and numbers so that the private area cannot be easily broken into!
Request that authors change their passwords frequently. You can set up an automatic calendar reminder for this.
Remember that passwords are case-sensitive, so be careful about upper- and lower-case letters
Assign a login or type the one that they have chosen, and type the password
Select the status: by default, “this author’s status” is on “editor.” If you are creating an administrator, click on the drop-down menu and choose “administrator"
Click “Save”
You will be automatically directed to the new author’s page.
To see the list of authors and their status, from the Launch pad click directly on the icon for “Authors.”
Create an author
Create an author
