Blogging has been one of the primary features of the WordPress platform from the start. We can use default posts or create a custom post type for blogging. A blog is a place where content is added and updated by a single user or a set of authors. The default post-publishing process is built to cater to personal blogging or handle the basic processes of a multi-author blog. 

However, sites that primarily focus on publishing content on a large scale require additional data, procedures, and features. The goal of this chapter is to simplify the content creation and publishing processes for such sites, build a custom workflow, and introduce features to attract more visitors to blog posts.

We will start the implementation of these goals by understanding all aspects of the default post-creation process. Then, we will simplify the blogging process and make it effective in a team environment with frontend post publishing, custom post statuses, and discussions between editors. Also, we will be using post ratings and splitting posts into series, and we will use podcasting to attract more visitors to a site.

In this chapter, we will learn about the following topics:

• Publishing and scheduling blog posts
• Displaying author profiles in posts
• Enabling frontend post publishing
• Modifying a user list to show author publishing details

• Managing custom post statuses
• Setting up a discussion between authors and editors
• Splitting a single post into multiple parts
• Creating private posts for specific users
• Adding ratings to blog posts
• Podcasting with WordPress