Guest Posts: Blog Submissions

Readers often have a story your blog would happily run. Making each of them a blog writer means a role per person and a way into your dashboard. Guest Posts takes the short route: you put an ordinary form on your site with fields for a title, the post and the guest's name, and every post sent through it lands in a review queue in your dashboard, with a preview that looks the way the post will. Accept one and it becomes a blog draft with the title, the text with its headings and links, the category the guest picked, and a byline such as "By Ana Kovač" at the top. You edit and publish it in your blog as usual, so nothing goes live without you. Reject the ones you don't want; you can move them back to the queue later. Guests don't need an account. When a logged-in member sends a post, Premium can file the draft under that member's own profile instead. The free plan works with one form and turns 5 posts a month into drafts. Premium has no monthly limit and adds photos from the form in the post and as the cover image, automatic drafts the moment a post arrives, a preset category and tags per form, several forms, and saved reasons for rejections.