WebFactory

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


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.

WeblineIndia

<p><strong>Magic Author Box</strong> is a plugin which allows you to display responsive customized author box with social icons to any post for each Author with separate UI. Fully customizable plugin. Create any UI of your choice to match your website. Display responsive author box at the end of your posts, showing the author name, author gravatar and author description. It also allows to add lots of social profile fields on WordPress user profile screen, also allows you to setup endless UI templates for your author box.</p>
<h4>Main Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Centralized option to enable/disable plugin functionality.</li>
<li>Shows author gravatar, name, website, description and social icons.</li>
<li>Pre-built 3 Author Box Templates included.</li>
<li>Every Author can choose their own author box UI template.</li>
<li>Fully customizable to match your theme design (style, color, size and text options etc..)</li>
<li>Nice looking on desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile phones.</li>
<li>Automatically insert the author box at the end of your post.</li>
<li>Option to manually insert the author box on your template file. (single.php or author.php)</li>
<li>Admin can apply Custom CSS for any author box template.</li>
<li>Shortcode supported. [mabox-author-box ids=”{author id}”]</li>
</ul>
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<p>Note:<br />
This plugin is an Open Source Software and we would be happy to have people contribute to our plugin. Please contact us here to talk to our <a href="https://www.weblineindia.com/contact-us.html" rel="nofollow ugc">software development team</a>, if you would like to contribute to this plugin and help make it better.</p>


Magic Author Box

Display responsive customized author box with social icons on posts. Fully customizable templates for each author with separate UI design.

Guest Author vs Magic Author Box