Thanks for your interest in contributing to WoodCentral. We do accept articles from outside authors. This page explains how it works so you can decide whether it’s a good fit.
Please read this first: if your main goal is link building, SEO, or promoting a product or service, this isn’t the right place, and we’d ask that you not submit.
What we offer
WoodCentral has been an online woodworking community since 1998. Our readers are working woodworkers, hobbyists, and tool and technique enthusiasts. [Add an audience figure if you want to share one.]
What we don’t offer
We don’t pay for articles, and we don’t pay authors. This is a community site, and we’d rather say so up front. If you need payment for your work, we’re probably not the right home for it.
What we’re looking for
We publish articles that offer genuine value to our readers, such as:
- Practical how-to and technique pieces
- Project write-ups with real detail: dimensions, steps, and lessons learned
- Tool, material, and finishing insights drawn from hands-on experience
- Shop setup, safety, and workflow ideas
- [Other topics you want, or want to exclude]
Articles should be original, written for woodworkers rather than search engines, and useful to someone who never visits your website.
There’s no word limit. Short, focused pieces are welcome, and so are long, in-depth ones with technical charts, graphs, and drawings. Length should be whatever the subject needs.
What we don’t accept
- Advertising or product promotion, however lightly disguised
- Content written mainly to place links
- Material previously published elsewhere requires permission and disclosure
- [Your position on AI-generated text]
About the author link
Each published article ends with an “About the Author” section that may include a single link to your website. Links are not permitted in the body of the article. The link is marked nofollow, so it won’t pass search ranking value, but it will send readers your way if they enjoy your work.
How to submit
Send us your complete article at [address or form]. Please include:
- The finished article as a Word document, plain text, a Google Doc link, or a PDF. For long or chart-heavy PDFs, a download link is fine.
- Charts, graphs, photos, and drawings you own the rights to, with captions. Originals or high-resolution versions are best.
- A short “About the Author” blurb and your one link.
If we plan to publish a PDF submission as a web page, we may ask you for an editable source file. We may publish PDFs as submitted, and may host the file on our server.
We read what we receive, but we can’t reply to every submission, and we don’t return or critique articles we decide not to publish. If we’re interested, we may suggest edits for length, clarity, and style. Publication is at our discretion. and we try to respond to submissions within two weeks.
Rights
You keep ownership of your work. By submitting, you confirm that you own, or have permission to use, everything you send, including text, charts, data, and images. You give WoodCentral permission to publish it on the site and keep it in our archive. We do not require exclusivity, and you may may republish elsewhere 90 days after we publish.
