Login in at www.opednews.com/admin. That will bring you to OpEdNews Control Panel.

At the top of the page you will click the article submit button  

The page that comes up will look as it does if you were submitting your own article.

Your name may be in the author field or the fill may be empty. DO NOT delete and type in the new author's name there. It will not be added to their member page that way.

Instead, on the right hand side you will click the SELECT AUTHOR button 

That will bring you to a page with a long list of authors to choose from. If you do not find the author's name on that page, then click the  TOGGLE button and a new list of names from which you can choose will appear.

 

When you locate the author you want, select by clicking the circle to the left of the name.

Then scroll back to the top of that page and click the  SELECT THIS AUTHOR button. That will take you back to the article submit page and the author’s name will be in the by-line field.

If you can’t find the author in either list click on the CREATE NEW AUTHOR button.  Fill in the first and last name, bio and website. Do not put email addresses anywhere in any field.  When you are finished, click the SIGN UP NEW AUTHOR button.  This will take you back to the submit article page. But the byline will not be filled in. Now, you can again click the SELECT AUTHOR button and you WILL find the author who you just added. Click on the circle next to the name and t hen click the SELECT THIS AUHOR button.  That will fill the by-line field.

 

That will bring you back to the Add Article page. Fill in the fields as you would when submitting an article. Title, body, category. You will notice the field that reads "written by who?". It will say "You." Leave it that way because it is now not referring to you, but the author you selected.

Usually, when you receive an article, there will not be an article description included so you will have to write one up yourself. Sometimes, if the first paragraph is written well (gives a good sense of what the article is) you can copy and paste that in there (don't cut, just copy). If it does not give readers a good description, then sum it up in an interesting way. You have 430 characters of space.

Leave the "show own home page" option selected.

When everything is complete, then click 

The next step is to tag the article.

After tagging and before publishing, be sure to preview in new browser to be sure it is all formatted properly.

If everything looks okay close out the preview and click publish.

That's about it. If you have specific questions about tagging, etc. let me know. Going on the assumption that you are already familiar with that.

 

Be aware of the format with which you receive the article. Sometimes people will send as an attachment in Microsoft Word which does not work well - you lose paragraph spaces, etc. so you have to copy it into another program and then copy that into the text field.

 

If the article was originally published on another site, it is customary to include a link at the bottom of the article ie. Originally published at Consortium.com (embed a link).

 

Helps to be the first to comment once it's up as that usually draws more readers and of course submit to Digg, etc. to get things started.

 

Let me know if you have any questions.