{"id":403,"date":"2021-07-25T17:26:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T15:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/how-to-convert-a-guest-author-to-user\/"},"modified":"2022-01-21T16:04:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T15:04:04","slug":"how-to-convert-a-guest-author-to-user","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/how-to-convert-a-guest-author-to-user\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Convert a Guest Author To User"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes one time contributors become regular. And it might be of interest for you to give them access to your Dashboard so they can post their content by themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s why Molongui Authorship provides you an easy way to convert guest authors to registered WordPress users. It only takes one click. That easy! See:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Log in to your WordPress Dashboard<\/li><li>Go to the <strong>Guest Authors<\/strong> page. Unless you changed its location, it will be displayed as a top item on your admin menu<\/li><li>You will be presented with a list of all authors in your site. Hover the name of the guest author you want to convert<\/li><li>The edit actions menu will be displayed<\/li><li>Click on the <strong>Convert to User<\/strong> link<\/li><li>Confirm conversion<\/li><li>That&#8217;s it! A notice will be displayed when conversion is done<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The once before guest author is removed from the Guest Authors list an added to your Users page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes one time contributors become regular. And it might be of interest for you to give them access to your Dashboard so they can post their content by themselves. That&#8217;s why Molongui Authorship provides you an easy way to convert guest authors to registered WordPress users. It only takes one click. That easy! See: Log [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1],"tags":[32,12],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authorship","category-doc","tag-guest-authors","tag-howto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}