Tools & Tips: Co-Author Blogs
The value: Esri Community Blog posts highlight product announcements, thought leadership features, customer success stories, and other relevant news. Often enough, more than one individual is behind a post’s creation. Historically, only the one individual who published the post would display as an author and possess editing permissions. Now, multiple contributors can be credited for a Blog post’s creation and each share editing permissions.
How to do it: When creating a new Blog post, use the Co-Authors widget on the right-hand side to enter the username(s) of members you’d like to include as contributors and give editing permissions. Select members from the populating list of suggestions or type the full username and click “Add.” Follow remaining steps to publish or submit your article for review.
Co-Authors can be retroactively added or removed to a post by the original author, Place Managers, or Admins while using the Edit Post feature.
GIF: Using Esri Community's Co-Author feature.
Keep in Mind: While only Esri team members and Esri Community MVPs automatically have role permissions enabling them to author Blog posts, non-staff members can request the ability to blog by emailing esricommunity@esri.com. In their outreach, users should detail the topic(s) they’d like to cover in their article and which ArcGIS products will be referenced. Esri Community team members will include relevant Place Managers in the consideration process, and Blog articles submitted by non-staff users may require review before publication.
Users of the Co-Author feature may see a styling issue that causes parts of the Co-Author widget to appear outside of the viewing area. This should not prevent its usability and will be reviewed for updates later in 2025.
