WebFactory

Add a guest author to any post without needing to register the guest author as a user on your site.
<h3>Features</h3>
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<li>✍️ Behaves as if guest authors were regular authors.</li>
<li>👤 Upload your own avatar image instead of using Gravatar.</li>
<li>🌍 Link to a custom page for the guest author.</li>
<li>🔥 Perfect for guest posts.</li>
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Guest Author

In my case I needed something that would create the admin part an I can then use it on my custom theme. Definitely saved me some time to create my own custom meta boxes for the posts. Needed only to customize the single post template page to show the guest meta information.

Works perfect


The plugin works as advertised and is quite simple and handy. I have one request though. These days nofollowing the URL might be suitable for some admins. So it is missing.


Feature request: nofollow the guest author URL

Add a guest author to any post without needing to register the guest author as a user on your site.

whatsthebigidea

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Ideas
If someone has an idea they want to bring into the world, now they can start an idea working group on your WordPress! Allows a user to post an idea to an Ideas page at /Ideas/. A BuddyPress group with bbPress forum 
 are automatically created when this post is published!
-During installation, there is a prompt to auto-install the required plugins: User Submitted Posts, BuddyPress, bbPress and WordPress Classic Editor. 
 -The User Submitted Posts required plugin is used to provide the way for users to post an Idea. 
 -The users post appears in wp-admin to be edited and published by the site admin. 
 -When published, a BuddyPress group with bbPress forum are created automatically! 
 -Ideas posts are all displayed on the /ideas/ page. 
 -The Ideas page displays links to the BuddyPress group, a donate url, and has a description of the Idea. 
 -The data contained in the ideas.xml file is displayed on the /ideas/ page. 
 -The Ideas from any other sites can be displayed on the /ideas/ page. 
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BigIdeas

Allows a user to post an idea to an Ideas page at /Ideas/. A BuddyPress group with bbPress forum are automatically created when this post is published …

Guest Author vs BigIdeas