# Guest Authors

Sometimes it's necessary to add an author to a post, but without actually giving them full access to the admin portions of your site accessible by the site owner, and staff members.

To help with this, you can invite a user and give them a role of Author. After adding them to your site, you can add them as an author to a post. Once added they will be able to access this under /authors/posts.

1. [Invite the user](/getting-started-with-mavenseed/account-info/users-inviting-collaborators.md) and give them a role of "author".
2. After they accept the invite, create or edit a post, and add them as an author.
3. They should see the post under authors/posts, and will have access to edit the title, excerpt, and image for the post. 

{% hint style="warning" %}
Heads up! Authors do not have the ability to publish a post. **They can only edit the title, excerpt, content, and post image.**
{% endhint %}


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# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://docs.mavenseed.com/getting-started-with-mavenseed/account-info/guest-authors.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.