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How to easily monitor how a specific content creator and their articles are performing?

  • January 30, 2026
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We create a lot of articles for our community. I can follow the metrics at a general level, but not at the author level. We want to know how each content creator’s content is performing.

There is no easy way to track this, and I don’t want to work with Excel exports.

Then I got an idea:

  1. I create a custom role for each content creator. For example: 10 Content Creators → I create 10 custom roles
  2. I assign each role to the corresponding creator
  3. Finally, I sort Analytics by Author → Custom User Role

 

 

The problem is that when I select a custom role from the drop-down menu, there is no data to display. I have tested different time frames and several roles. I also tried adding a Content type filter.

Still, there is no data to display.

Then I went to the new dashboard, as someone suggested in this thread:

 

 

But there is also a problem: I can’t find the custom roles I just created.

 

 

Any ideas on how to easily monitor how content creators and their articles are performing individually? Maybe I create AI agent to download data via API and create author lever report?

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  • January 30, 2026

It seems that there was some delay. Now I can see the data on the old dashboard, so maybe the database just needed some time to update. I still can´t find the custom roles I created  in the new dashboard.

But still, if you have any good tips to share around this topic, feel free to do so!

 


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  • March 2, 2026

I don’t know that this is terribly different from your solution, but I’ll share anyways. 😁I think you could also create a view from Content Overview by specifying the author by username, which you then could save and refer back to as needed in Custom Views. Perhaps that way you don’t have to bother with custom roles, and you could dial in which specific metrics you want included in the view and eliminate the others, too.