Comments on: A WordPress.com Twist for Guest Blogging on Problogger

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:43:24 +0000

How-To Geek, couldn’t you just do this:
1. Allow user registration
2. Make the default user level “Contributor.”
That way people could register and write posts. WordPress would notifiy you of the pending post whenever you log-in, and you would be able to approve them easily, and have them be published. It would save a bit of effort. But you would have to find or write some sort of anti-spam-registration plugin…because spam registrations happen a lot.

P.S. I submitted my guest post not long after Darren announced the opportunity. Hopefully he will publish it soon.

By: Michael Visser

Michael Visser — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:47:35 +0000

This is a clone as what seomoz.org have been doing since way back in 07.

The best draft articles are published on the YouMOZ and if they perform well there they are transferred to the SEOmoz blog.

Cheers,

Michael Visser

By: newmediatype

newmediatype — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:10:09 +0000

Good solution for Darren.

@Bignerd :
Interesting though, big statement though

Lex

By: BigNerd

BigNerd — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:22:45 +0000

It’s a bit of an American Idol audition for blogging!

[begin devils advocate]

Who’s to say ‘big blogger’ doesn’t glean great content from ‘little blogger’ from this WordPress ‘holding zone’, delete the evidence (oops!) and post convoluted bits in a semi-plagiarized article? Hell, for every 20 *proposed* articles, big blogger posts ONE - but gets enough content for a month’s worth of sit-back-and-let-it-come-to-me content. Brilliant!

“…I could customize the theme so that none of the articles would actually be shown.”

Very creative indeed.

[/ devils advocate]

- BigNerd, Little Blogger

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:15:32 +0000

@ The How-To Geek:

Oh, wow, I see Darren’s opened a can of imaginative worms with this one.

By: The How-To Geek

The How-To Geek — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:37:40 +0000

Now that is just absolutely brilliant!

Couldn’t you allow anybody to create an account and post drafts on your wordpress.com blog? The only thing missing would be a notification of new submitted posts.

I’m thinking as a twist to this, I might do the same thing but with my own separate installed copy of WordPress… that way people could submit articles directly using any tool they’d like, and I could customize the theme so that none of the articles would actually be shown.