Keeping a site light while adding expert content

[Deuxter]

Hey,

i use FlatPress to avoid big heavy platforms, but now I wanna publish more strategic or professional content like guest posts and external analysis. The challenge is keeping the site simple, with no complicated user accounts and no heavy dependencies, without turning the blog into some corporate platform. Some of you let external contributors add posts without losing the minimalist vibe? For now I do it manually through the editor and mention the author, but it gets messy when several contributors are involved.

Trying to find a balance between site autonomy and occasional collaboration is tricky

[fraenkiman]

Hello Deuxter,

FlatPress is a single-user CMS (wiki article). The author of the post is the FlatPress admin. Although there have been attempts in the past to allow multiple authors (administrators), this has never been implemented. In addition, FlatPress lacks a content approval system; i.e., a management system that allows the admin to approve or edit posts created by "non-admins". Currently, this is only possible for comments.

If the author is 100% trustworthy, for example, a family member, you can add them as another FlatPress admin/author. Creating another admin is described in this wiki article.

If the article already exists in an external source and embedding is permitted, you can embed it in your post using an iframe tag. This has the advantage that you do not have to take responsibility for the content.

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The next option would be for you to create a post as an admin and have the co-authors post their content as comments. The comments can be approved/rejected and edited by the FlatPress admin. You remain responsible for the content.

Another option would be to use the tag plugin. This would allow you to tag the co-author and find the relevant entries by tag.

Best regards,
Frank

[Deuxter]

Thanks for the feedback, Frank.
Yeah, that confirms my fear about FlatPress being strictly single-user. Giving admin access to external contributors is definitely a no-go for me. I think I'll stick to the manual process for now, maybe just refining the tagging system to keep things organized. I'm currently trying to streamline this whole "guest contributor" workflow for my professional site so I might just keep the heavy lifting there and use the blog for simpler stuff. Appreciate the suggestions!