AIFORYA Multi Author: WP editorial workflow + AI coaching

Steer Your Multi-Author Newsroom, from Brief to Publication

AIFORYA Multi Author is the WordPress extension that structures the work of an editorial team: clear editorial roles, article assignment, an 8-status drag-and-drop Kanban board, internal collaboration with @mentions, and AI editorial coaching that analyses each author's style to help them improve. All within your own WordPress, with no external platform.

The AI layer is built on the BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) model: you plug in your API key and AIFORYA applies no margin. No opaque credits, no per-article quota.

Technical specifications: Compatible with WordPress 6.0+, PHP 8.0+. Native admin interface, fully translatable, compatible with multilingual plugins (WPML, Polylang).

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Included in the AIFORYA subscription. AI usage billed at cost via your own API key.

The Real Problem of a Team Newsroom

When several people write on the same site, the content is no longer the problem: it's the workflow. Who writes what? What stage is this article at? Who needs to review it? Who is allowed to publish? Without a framework, everything plays out across scattered messaging apps, shared spreadsheets and manual follow-ups.

The consequences are concrete. Articles forgotten halfway through. Duplicate assignments. Reviews that never happen. Junior writers left without structured feedback on their style. And an editor-in-chief who spends more time coordinating than advancing the editorial line.

Existing solutions cover part of the need: byline plugins (Co-Authors Plus, Molongui) manage public signatures but ignore the production flow; workflow tools (PublishPress, Edit Flow) organise editorial statuses but bring no help in steering the authors themselves.

AIFORYA Multi Author focuses on what matters for a small newsroom: organising production and growing the team. The workflow structures the flow; AI coaching structures skill development. It's an angle no mainstream competitor covers.

Key Features

AIFORYA Multi Author is not a text generator. It is an editorial control centre built into the WordPress admin.

Ready-to-Use Editorial Roles

• Description: The extension creates three dedicated WordPress roles — Writer, Editor and Publisher — with graduated capabilities: write, review and approve, or publish. Each person only accesses what their role permits.
• Concrete benefit: The editorial hierarchy is set from installation. A junior writer can propose and advance an article without ever being able to publish it alone. Control stays with the right people, without hand-crafting permissions.

Article Assignment

• Description: Each article is assigned to a responsible author (one article ↔ one author), with the WordPress author updated and uniqueness enforced. No more orphaned or doubly-assigned articles.
• Concrete benefit: At any moment, you know who owns what. The workload is legible, editorial responsibility is clear.

8-Status Kanban Board (Drag and Drop)

• Description: A visual board organises production into status columns — from drafting to archiving, passing through "in progress", "review", "revision", "approved" and "published". Changing status is done by drag and drop, with immediate update and automatic rollback on failure.
• Concrete benefit: The whole newsroom sees progress at a glance. Articles stuck in review stand out. Coordination stops being a shared file and becomes a real visual flow.

AI Editorial Coaching (Per Author)

• Description: For a given author, the AI analyses their recent articles and produces a structured summary: their strengths, their areas for improvement, and a reading of their style. The result is cached and can be regenerated on demand.
• Concrete benefit: This is the product's differentiator. An editor-in-chief gets, in a few seconds, reasoned feedback on the style of each member of their team — support that even the best workflow tools do not offer. Ideal for guiding juniors and raising the collective level.
• BYOK integration: The analysis relies on your API key (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, Mistral or OpenRouter). You pay the provider directly, at cost.

Smart Assignment

• Description: For an article to hand out, the extension recommends the most relevant authors thanks to a local heuristic: specialty (overlap with the categories the author already covers) crossed with availability (current article load). The calculation happens entirely on your server, with no external service.
• Concrete benefit: The right article goes to the right author, without overloading the one already buried in assignments. Immediate decision support for whoever steers the newsroom.

Workflow Notes and @Mentions

• Description: Each article hosts internal collaboration notes. An @author mention triggers a targeted notification for the person concerned. Editorial exchanges stay attached to the article, not scattered elsewhere.
• Concrete benefit: The discussion about a text lives where it belongs: on the text. No more context lost between email, messaging and the back office.

Internal Notifications Inbox

• Description: A notification centre lists received alerts, shows an unread counter and lets each message be marked as read, with ownership checks.
• Concrete benefit: Every team member immediately knows what requires their attention — a mention, a review to do, an assignment change.

Dashboard and Per-Author Tracking

• Description: A steering view gives the editorial lead a reading of activity: approval rate, assignment distribution and load per author.
• Concrete benefit: The editor-in-chief has a synthetic reference point on the state of production and the balance of the team, without leaving WordPress.

CSV / JSON Export of Assignments

• Description: Export all assignments in one click (Excel-compatible CSV with UTF-8 BOM, or JSON), author name included. Download secured by nonce and capability check.
• Concrete benefit: Client reporting, archiving, accounting reconciliation or external analysis: your production data stays portable and belongs to you.

Multi-Provider AI + Encrypted Key

• Description: The shared AI client supports six providers — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, Mistral and OpenRouter — with a built-in connection test. Your API key is encrypted at rest, decrypted only for use, and never displayed again.
• Concrete benefit: You choose the model that suits you and can switch provider without being locked in. Your most sensitive secret stays protected.

Real-World Use Cases

For the Multi-Author Blog

Camille runs a themed blog with six volunteer contributors of uneven levels. Before, she tracked articles in a spreadsheet and chased everyone by email. With AIFORYA Multi Author, she installs the three editorial roles, assigns each topic and follows progress on the Kanban board. When an article lingers in "review", she sees it instantly. Once a month, she runs the AI coaching on each contributor to send them personalised style feedback. Quality rises, and Camille recovers several hours of coordination per week.

For the Content Agency

The "Rédac Studio" agency produces content for about fifteen clients with a team of junior writers and high turnover. Consistency and skill development are permanent stakes. By adopting AIFORYA Multi Author, the agency assigns articles intelligently according to each writer's specialty, frames statuses from A to Z on the Kanban and centralises exchanges via @mentions. AI coaching serves as an onboarding tool: each new writer quickly receives an objective reading of their style. Supervision time per article drops noticeably.

For the Small Media Newsroom

The online outlet "Le Fil" runs a daily flow with three editors and eight freelancers. The editor-in-chief steers all production from the dashboard: who writes, who reviews, who approves. Editorial roles guarantee nothing goes live without a Publisher's validation. CSV exports feed the tracking of freelancer payments. The newsroom gains fluidity without changing tools or outsourcing its data.

Clear and Predictable Pricing

AIFORYA Multi Author is not sold as a standalone licence: it is part of the AIFORYA bundle subscription, which gives access to a coherent catalogue of premium extensions. You pay a fixed subscription for the software and its updates, and you keep total control of your AI costs via your own key.

Note on the BYOK model: the subscription covers the software, updates and support. The AI part (editorial coaching) goes through your API key: calls are billed directly by the provider you choose, without any AIFORYA margin. Since coaching is occasional (on demand, per author), AI costs stay modest and 100% under your control. No credits, no per-article quota.

Positioning Against Alternatives

• PublishPress / Edit Flow organise the editorial workflow (statuses, comments) but bring no help in steering authors. AIFORYA adds the native Kanban, smart assignment and AI coaching.
• Co-Authors Plus manages bylines and public co-signatures: a different, front-display-oriented need, not production. AIFORYA focuses on the internal workflow.
• The AIFORYA angle: a clean editorial workflow foundation plus AI editorial coaching that nobody else offers — all within a pooled catalogue at a controlled price.

Frequently Asked Questions

General AIFORYA Questions

1. How do I create my API key? Create an account with the AI provider of your choice (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, Mistral or OpenRouter), add a payment method, then generate a secret key. The AIFORYA documentation guides you step by step.

2. Can I cancel my subscription at any time? Yes. AIFORYA subscriptions are commitment-free and can be cancelled at any time from your client area. Access stays active until the end of the current period.

3. How does the BYOK model work? You insert your own API key into the extension's settings. AI calls are made directly from your site to the provider, with full transparency on costs. AIFORYA never acts as an intermediary.

4. What AI costs should I expect? Editorial coaching is an occasional, light operation (an on-demand analysis, per author). Costs stay very low and directly linked to your usage. You pay the cost price, with no added margin.

5. Is my data stored by AIFORYA? No. Your articles, your assignments and your internal exchanges stay in your own WordPress database. AI requests transit directly between your server and the provider.

6. Can I use multiple AI providers? Yes. The AI client supports six providers and a connection test. You can switch provider simply by changing the key, with no lock-in.

7. Is there a trial period? No. The Free plan's free extensions let you evaluate the catalogue with no commitment, and every paid plan comes with a full 14-day money-back guarantee.

8. Does AIFORYA provide technical support? Yes. Email support is included in all paid subscriptions, with response times adapted to your plan.

Multi Author Specific Questions

9. What roles does the extension rely on? Three dedicated WordPress roles — Writer, Editor and Publisher — are created at installation, with graduated capabilities (write, approve, publish). They add to the existing WordPress roles.

10. How does the Kanban board work? Articles are organised into status columns (from drafting to archiving). You drag a card from one column to another to change its status; the update is immediate and rolls back automatically on error.

11. What does the AI coaching cover? The AI analyses a given author's recent articles and draws a summary: strengths, areas for improvement and a reading of their style. It's a support tool for the editorial lead, not a content generator.

12. Does the coaching write articles for me? No. AIFORYA Multi Author generates no content or drafts. The coaching produces only an analysis feedback on an author's style to help them improve.

13. How does smart assignment work? A local heuristic recommends the authors best suited to an article by crossing their specialty (categories already covered) and their availability (current load). The calculation happens entirely on your server.

14. Can I export my production data? Yes. All assignments export as CSV (Excel-compatible) or JSON, in one click, with author names.

15. Is my API key protected? Yes. It is encrypted at rest, decrypted only at the moment of use, and never displayed again in the interface.

AIFORYA's Commitments

Client Sovereignty The BYOK model is a guarantee. You control your data, your costs and your dependencies. AIFORYA provides the tool, you keep the power. Your content and your editorial exchanges never leave your server.

Radical Transparency No hidden margins, no opaque credit systems. The software price is clear, and AI costs go directly to your provider, to your sole benefit.

Guaranteed Service Continuity AIFORYA is built to last. In the event of prolonged interruption of the publisher's activity, a patrimonial mechanism provides for the release of the source code. Your extensions keep working.

Privacy by Architecture GDPR compliance is built in from design. AIFORYA minimises data collection and never processes your content on its servers.

Uncompromising Quality The software is a living product. AIFORYA provides regular updates for security, WordPress compatibility and the addition of relevant features.

Take Back Control of Your Newsroom

Stop coordinating your team in a spreadsheet. Give your newsroom a clear framework — roles, a visual flow, structured collaboration — and AI coaching that grows each of your authors.

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