Smashing Magazine has a great article on your authors listing. If you are using multiple authors, head over for a very cool tutorial.
“At its core, WordPress is a rock-solid publishing platform. With a beautiful and easy to use interface, and support for custom post types and post formats, publishers have the flexibility to do what they do best: write content.
However, WordPress is lacking in social interaction between content authors and readers. BuddyPress is trying to solve this, but I believe it’s going in the wrong direction by trying to be a full-fledged social network.
A big phrase in the publishing world is “user engagement.” This is about getting readers to spend more time on the website, actively searching for content and even generating their own. While one could write a few books on the subject, here are a few things a WordPress publisher can do:
- Create a daily or weekly newsletter, with top stories from selected categories;
- Provide an editorial-driven open forum in which editors propose themes, stories and questions and readers comment on them;
- Continue the discussion of articles on social platforms;
- Encourage users to submit articles and images for contests;
- Highlight your authors.”
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