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Contributor: is somebody who can write and manage her/his own posts but cannot publish content
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Everyone is encouraged to submit blogs, webinars, conference sessions, videos... etc to MicroProfile.io. There are two processes.
NOTE for the new Contributor: If this is the first time submitting content, please write a git issue to be added to MP wordpress:
NOTE for the WordPress sessoned Editors: If choosing to help on any content submission git, please use the git issue to be added to MP wordpress.
Contributors are welcomed to make the best usage of drafting content directly in the MP Content folder: blog folder
Doing so will ensure that copy/edit review is possible via "Sugestive Mode".
Open a git issue and request the new post review.
Case 1: You plan to write and host your post on the MicroProfile.io site, i.e. blog post is NOT a redirect to another existing blog URL
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Confirm you can Log in to the WordPress console and enter your WordPress credentials (these were in an email you received when you were added to MicroProfile.io as a "contributor")
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On the left margin of the console, click on "Posts->Add New"
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Choose a category and enter tags on the right side of the screen in the “tags” box. (These are keywords related to the topic of your post).
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Scroll down to the "Feature Image" widget and upload an image by clicking on the "Set feature image" link. The image should be between 1600px - 2000px wide and have a minimum height of 500px for best results.
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Scroll down to the Page Header Image and add image to your post, specially if you are contributing a video, a clip from it is valuable.
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When done entering your blog post, click on the “Submit for Review” button. This will effectively put the blog post on the WP blog inbox for all WP admins. As a writer, you are done at this point.
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Open an issue at the respective MP Github project requesting the new post review.
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If any of the options described below are not visible to you, click "Screen Options" in the top-right of the window and make sure the relevant parts of the editor are displayed to you (some aren't displayed by default).
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Log in to the WordPress console and enter your WordPress credentials (these were in an email you received when you were added to MicroProfile.io as a "contributor")
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On the left margin of the console, click on "Posts->Add New"
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In the "Enter title here" text field of the screen "Add New Post", copy and paste the title of the existing post
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Paste the first three lines of your blog post in the editor text box. This will be displayed below the title of your post on the main https://microprofile.io/blog/ page (followed by an automatically-added link to 'Read More'.
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Right sidebar: "Format" box, select "Link".
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Add your URL for your blog post to "Link settings" (below editor text box). This configures your post so that when a visitor clicks the post, they are redirected to the original blog post hosted at the URL you've entered.
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On the right side of the screen, select a category and add tags to the post. Tags are keywords related to the topic of your article.
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Scroll down to the "Feature Image" widget and upload an image by clicking on the "Set feature image" link. The image should be between 1600px - 2000px wide and have a minimum height of 500px for best results.
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Scroll down to the "Page Header Settings" widget and use "Page Header Image" to add the image to your post. If you are contributing a video, a clip from it is especially valuable.
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Click the “Submit for Review” button. This will effectively put the blog post on the WordPress blog inbox for all WordPress admins. As a writer, you are done at this point.
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Open an issue. In the issue, provide a link to your content: WordPress, crosspost, google document...
The next steps apply to the Editors.
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As an Editor, log in to WordPress console.
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Click on "All Posts" on the left margin of the console and click on the appropriate blog post to review
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Editor reviews the blog post for compliance to criteria (see "Criteria for approving blog posts" section below). If the post needs re-working, change the "Status" of the post to "Draft". This will send the post back to the writer to correct and re-submit. Editor needs to follow this with an email to the writer with details on what needs to be corrected. If the post satisfies the compliance criteria, then continue to the next step.
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At this point, to approve for immediate or future scheduling, click on the "Publish" button
The following are some of the criteria that the editor will use when reviewing your submitted blog post:
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Ensure the content of post is relevant and applicable to Microprofile
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Check that content has the author(s) name
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Check that the content provides credit to collaborators
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Check that post has a “Page Header Image”
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The image should be between 1600px - 2000px wide and have a minimum height of 500px for best results.
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Check for grammatical errors - Editors can fix this
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Check for TMs and copyrights - Editors can fix this or send back to author to fix
Thank you for choosing to share your MicroProfile knowledge!