Some of the specially created Guest blogging plugins can make the process of receiving and managing guest blog posts from from guest authors real easy for you.

Guest blogging has been an integral part of the blogging industry for ages, I’m sure it will continue to be one, guest blogging is considered as one of the most effective way to get yourself exposed to a new community.

Many bloggers considers guest blogging as one of the most effective way to drive traffic to their site and easiest marketing strategy as far as blogging is concerned.

Here, in this post we have collected some of the best guest blogging plugins which will make it really easy for you to receive and manage guest blog posts.

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Guest Posts

One of the really simple and effective guest blogging plugins which makes it really easy to receive blog posts from your guest authors even from the unregistered authors.

This plugin will create a form where your guests can submit their posts. The posts will be saved directly into your WordPress database and will show up in your WordPress dashboard as pending which you can approve and publish.

You can use the shortcode provided by this plugin to show the guest author form in a post or a page as per your wish & it will create the form for the guest authors to submit articles.

Manage/View Your Posts Only

This is a new plugin to manage guest blogging in your WordPress site. On WordPress, a contributor can write and submit a post and wait for review until it has been published.

Once the plugin is installed, a contributor can only view the posts that they have submitted and cannot see what others have been submitting.

The plugin also hides the total number of posts and post drafts present on the blog to the contributors.

Advanced Access Manager

This plugin helps you to define access for any user, role or visitor. Advanced Access Manager is one of the best WordPress plugins for setting up access control and works as best security enhancement tool.

It is easy-to-use and at the same time very powerful plugin that gives you the flexible control over your single blog or ”multisite network”.

WPFront User Role Editor

Another really simple but effective guest blogging plugins, this plugin allows you to easily manage user roles within your WordPress site. You can create, edit or delete user roles and manage role capabilities.

Members

Another superb guest blogging plugins and to manage your WordPress blog community quite effectively. It’s a user, role, and content management plugin that was created to make WordPress a more powerful CMS

Plugin Features:

• Role Manager: Allows you to edit, create, and delete roles as well as capabilities for these roles.
• Content Permissions: Gives you control over which users (by role) have access to post content.
• Shortcodes: Shortcodes to control who has access to content.
• Widgets: A login form widget and users widget to show in your theme’s sidebars.
• Private Site: You can make your site and its feed completely private if you want.

Really Simple Guest Post Plugin

This is another really useful WordPress guest blogging plugins. You can use really simple guest post plugin and allow your visitors to submit posts without registration (as a guest author). Anyone will be able to submit post and it will be added automatically as pending post.

You can review the pending blog posts and approve or reject it as per your set standards.

Guest Post Express

The best way to find or suggest sites accepting Guest Post and Guest post Writers. With this plugin you can also add a guest post submission form on your site using shortcodes easily.

Editorial Calendar

This plugin will resolve the communication issues between authors in a multi-author WordPress blog. The editorial calendar gives you an overview of your blog and when each post will be published.

You can drag and drop to move posts, edit posts right in the calendar, and manage your entire blog.

Fancier Author Box

If you publish guest posts on your site, it is really important to give the author his due. Fancier Author Box is one of the best author bio plugins which shows a nice description about the author along with social profile links.

Author Avatars List

Display the authors of your blog in a nice looking way with this amazing plugin. Avatar lists can be inserted into your sidebar by adding a widget or into posts/pages by using a shortcode.