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How to Add Other Authors' Articles

Login in at https://www.positivepsychology.net/populum/login_admin.php. That will bring you to the Positive Psychology Control Panel. Log in as an admin. At the top of the page click the Add Article button      That will bring you to the select authors page.  Start typing in the author's name, first or last. After typing in three or  more letters, the name of the author should appear. if it doesn't , click on the toggle button to see more names.  The most common problem new editors run into is they forget to toggle if they can't find the author name.  When you locate the author you want, click on the name. That will take you back to the article submit page and the author's name will be in the by-line field. No Author Found: If you can't find the author in either toggled list, click on the CREATE NEW AUTHOR button.   Fill in the first and last name, bio and website, and email, if you have the author's email.     When you are finished, click the SIGN UP NEW AUTHOR button. That will bring you back to the Add Article page. Fill in the fields as you would when submitting an article. Title, body, category.  Having used Select Author, the proper author will appear in the byline. You'll see that when  you go to the next page.  Usually, when you receive an article, there will not be an article description included so you will have to write one up yourself. Sometimes, if the first paragraph is written well (gives a good sense of what the article is) you can copy and paste that first paragraph in as the description(don't cut, just copy). If it does not give readers a good description, then sum it up in an interesting way. You have 430 characters of space. Do all the things you would do if you were submitting your own article.  When everything is complete, then click  submit  The next step is to tag the article. After tagging and before publishing, be sure to click Check Progress to preview in a new browser to be sure it is all formatted properly. If everything looks okay, close out the preview and click publish. If the article was originally published on another site, it is customary to include a link at the bottom of the article ie. Originally published at Consortiumnews.com (embed a link). It helps to be the first to comment once it's up as that usually draws more readers and of course submit to facebook, reddit and twitter etc. to get things started.