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When you're going to be on vacation, or you're simply out of your wits on a certain subject that you know your readers are expecting, you may want to invite an expert guest blogger.

Guest Blogger plugin helps you by simplifying the process of finding a guest blogger, searching for an interesting post and creating a guest account.

The plugin searches the well respected EzineArticles database in relevant subjects and creates a draft so that you can put in your editorial before posting. It can also be in autoposting mode that regularly post the expert articles on your website on schedule.

You can choose to auto-create a guest blogger account in your Wordpress blog with the original author's details. The guest blogger role is controlled by WordPress "New User Default Role" (under "General Settings", normally set to "Subscriber").

When searching for a guest post, you can specify the keywords of the desired subject. Searching criteria can be refined with

• Matching criteria: exact match, broad match, or match any words.
• Fields to be searched: in article title, body, author name, or keyword.
• Category: all category, category or sub-category.

These criteria narrows down the most relevant potential guest posts. The original article summary will be used as excerpt.

The plugin also support compliance checking with EzineArticles' Terms of Service, i.e. you cannot quote more than 25 articles per year, by keeping a counter of quoted posts and suspending searching in case of exceeding the limit.

There's also a management interface showing the stats and schedule of post tasks. An example site is Beading Necklace.

Summary of key features:

• Automatically search and post expert articles based on various criteria
• Allow posting in draft and published modes
• Search test to see what articles are available
• Selection of the category which the articles are posted in
• Flexible schedule automatically triggered by WP-cron. No additional setup required.
• Choose the number of post per scheduled task.
• Testing options to ensure installation is proper and required software modules are in place
• Automatically create guest account.

Author: bobking