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Add a guest author to any post without needing to register the guest author as a user on your site.
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<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>
</ul>
Looking for nicer author boxes with more options? Check out our <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-author-box/" rel="ugc">free Simple Author Box</a> plugin.

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.

Morten Rand-Hendriksen

The Cool Author Box plugin adds information about the author to the bottom of the content of posts and/or pages. The information is gathered from the profile info set inside WordPress.
Items displayed are:
<ul>
<li>Display name of the author of the post or page</li>
<li>Gravatar of the author (set at www.gravatar.com)</li>
<li>Link to other posts by the same author</li>
<li>Link to author’s website</li>
</ul>
To make the author box appear you need to activa the plugin and go to the Cool Author Box settings under Settings and select if the box should appear under posts, pages or both.
<h3>Credits</h3>
Copyright 2010 by Morten Rand-Hendriksen and Pink & Yellow Media
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or 
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Cool Author Box

Adds a stylish author box with author name, bio, Gravatar and links after the content in posts and/or pages.

Guest Author vs Cool Author Box