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Plugin Description
About HeyPublisher Submission Manager
This plugin allows publishers and blog owners to accept unsolicited submissions from unregistered users. You no longer have to create accounts for each and every writer in your system who wants to submit content to you for consideration. Instead, submissions to your website are handled by the HeyPublisher.com web-service via this plugin.
You define the type of writing you want to receive. You control the flow of unsolicited content coming into your publication. You have more time to run your publication.
Think of us as a “digital slush pile” for your website.
Use of this plugin allows you to quickly and easily preview submissions, mark submissions for ‘review’, accept submissions for publication, or reject submissions, removing them from your slush pile. All acceptance/rejection communications with the writer are handled automatically by the web-service, freeing you from the time-consuming task of having to respond to each submission individually.
HeyPublisher Submission Manager allows you to:
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Define specific genres of work you will accept and limit the submissions to only works within those genres.
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Enforce your publication’s simultaneous submission rules. If you don’t accept simultaneous submissions, the plugin will prevent writers from submitting work to you and another press simultaneously.
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Prevent writers from spamming you with submissions (unless you accept multiple submissions)
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Publish your submission guidelines in HeyPublisher’s Publisher Database, where they can be discovered by thousands of creative writers world-wide.
How it Works
This plugin allows you to keep your database clear of unsolicited submissions and unnecessary user accounts.
All submissions are stored remotely on our servers so we can filter out the submissions you don’t want to see. The only time a submission or user account is ever copied over to your system is when you “accept” a submission for publication.
Spam submissions are a virtual impossibility. Since all writers must have valid accounts with HeyPublisher before they can submit work to your publication, we prevent spam from getting in. And since you as a publisher can toggle on or off the ability to accept simultaneous submissions and multiple submissions, you can very easily control the flow of new content coming to your publication.
Screenshots
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Plugin Validation Screen. This is how you connect the plugin to HeyPublisher.com. Just input the username and password you want to create (if you don’t already have a HeyPublisher account).
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Publication Information configuration screen. This is how you want your publication to appear within HeyPublisher’s database.
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Publication Contact information screen. Indicate how writers should contact you if they have a question about their submission.
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Submission Form Configuration. Here is where you create (or select) the page in your WordPress blog that will contain the submission form. If the page doesn’t already exist, click the link and the plugin will create it for you.
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Submission Guidelines Configuration. If your publication has a page for it’s submission guidelines, select that page here. This page will be indexed by HeyPublisher and will be promoted to our community of writers.
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Submission Categories. Here is where you will select the types of work you want to accept, and how thesemap to the categories you’ve created in WordPress.
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Payment Configuration. If your publication pays writers for their work, indicate that here. At this time, this is informational only.
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Notification Configuration. Indicate which notifications you want to send to the writer.
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Submissions Summary. From this screen you can view and manage the submissions received by your publication, including rejecting the submission, saving the submission for later review, or accepting the submission for publication. Clicking on the Author’s Name will bring up their bio in preview mode (if available). Clicking on the title of the submission will allow you to ‘preview’ the submission.
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Submission Status. When ‘previewing’ a submission, the submission status side-bar will give you quick stats on the submission, including how many days it’s been in your slushpile, and whether or not the work has been submitted to (or published by) any other publishers.
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Email Template Summary. Get a quick view of the custom emails you are sending to writers at each stage of the submission process.
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Email Template Add/Edit Screen. Add new (or edit existing) email templates.
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Plugin and Publisher Statistics screen. Gives you a quick snapshot of total submissions, pending submissions, and how many writers have made comments about your publication on HeyPublisher.com
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Dashboard Summary. A summary of total submissions received and how many are pending review has been added to the Dashboard, providing you with a quick snapshot.
