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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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.

nithin12

Author Box Plugin is ability to add the author box in top/bottom of each post or in each category.
About this Plugin:
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<li>Author Box Plugin is a Simple Plugin and which give an full flexibility to the WordPress Site</li>
<li>It contains reasonable customization option in admin settings</li>
<li>Easy to use</li>
<li>Tested upto WordPress 3.8.2</li>
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We are always happy to fix the bug in this plugin and enhance the features to this plugin.
We appreciate your ideas and we take up feasible ideas to create the plugin for WordPress Plugin Repository
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Author Box

Author Box Plugin is Simple and Useful Plugin which anyone can need it. Using this Plugin you can show the author information in a box under the post  …

Guest Author vs Author Box