I just went back to some old code and everything is working, but I still need to figure out this problem. I posted this because it’s clearly something I wrote incorrectly, not WordPress.
Also, here is the code that’s creating the sidebars and the pages it is being output on
http://pastebin.com/m2e9c97f5
after a little trouble, the notify-on-draft-post works perfectly. it’s exactly what i was looking for.
the main thing you need to make sure is that the guest blogger’s role is “contributer”. the plugin will only show the moderate option if they are set to this.
hope this helps
hey wolf, i haven’t been able to do heavy testing, but i think i may have found a solution.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/notify-on-draft-post/
i’ll try to get around to testing it and report back on here with my results