Guidelines for Contributing Authors

Pitching
Please send me a quick pitch for any article that you wish to write before going ahead with it.  This allows me to both schedule and budget for articles and prevent authors from working on similar topics.

There is a list of needed articles here, or you can email me with your own ideas.

Posting
After you have had the green light for an article,  you can enter it into WordPress.  When finished, please save it as a draft and set the status as Pending Review.

DO NOT PASTE FROM A WORD DOCUMENT!  Not only will this result in formatting errors for your article, but can break the entire blog.  Please use Google Docs or Word Pad.  You can also work on your article directly in WordPress, as it will not be published until you have set it as Pending Review, at which time I will be notified that I need to publish it.

If you can add images directly to your post, that’s excellent!  If not, you can email them to me, letting me know which article they are for.

I reserve the right to tweak your article for improved SEO and/or revenue reasons.  This is a necessary evil, but should not affect the quality of your final article.  If you have a big problem with the edit at any time, feel free to discuss it with me.

Comments
We love comments!  Go ahead and comment on other posts on the site.

Tone
Always be up beat, friendly, informative and honest.

Sometimes be controversial and opinionated.

Never be abusive or offensive.

Yes, we want to be a cool, modern, forward thinking blog,  but please do pay attention to boring details such as correct grammar and punctuation!  Remember to use UK English.

Promoting
We use many of the social media networks to promote http://weddingfashionfiles.com/
such as StumbleUpon, Reditt and Digg.  A handy tool is Social Poster.

We also use BrideTide.

Vote up your posts for more exposure and bonus ops!

You can also re-tweet our post feed on Twitter @weddingfashion

Payments
Send a Paypal invoice each Friday to sales@theweddingguide.eu with the details (Title and date entered) of any posts that you have entered into wordpress that week.  Also include any bonuses you have earned during the week.

Please also make a note of your full name and username in the invoice.

Rights
By entering your work into http://weddingfashionfiles.com/ you agree to grant The Wedding Guide first electronic print rights, and exclusive electronic print rights for six months after publication.

If the work appears anywhere else during this six months, for example as a guest post, you must include the following credit alongside your author byline:

For Reference
Check out our links lists for blogs we aspire to be like, affiliates we want to promote and designers that we like to cover.  Visiting any one of these links should give you an abundance of new article ideas!