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.

glanum

David Shabtai

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<li>NEW each author now links to a personnal page or external URL, in addition to author posts (default)</li>
<li>NEW better integration with home, archive categories and custom loops</li>
<li>NEW a few more options with avatar, before/after content</li>
<li>NEW no repetition of author name if revision author is the same</li>
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This great simple plugin, written with <a href="http://www.glanum.com" rel="nofollow ugc">multimedia agency</a> Glanum, adds the author and date at the top or bottom of the content on posts, on pages and on archive categories (optionally along with last modified date and author), with a fully custom per-post / per-page hide option. Especially usefull for multi-author sites and blogs:
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<li>Name of the author of the post or page, optional avatar</li>
<li>Date of first publication</li>
<li>Author and date of last revision</li>
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It is flexible and offers the following options in the admin menu:
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<li>Display the post author info independently on posts, pages, archive categories and home</li>
<li>Specific per-post/per-page exception: hide the info on any post and page you want!</li>
<li>Choose: before or after the content or the excerpt independently</li>
<li>Optional link on author name to WP’s default author posts list or now to a custom author page or external URL</li>
<li>Write your own label before and after the name of the author: e.g. <code>Contributed by</code> Author Name <code>for OurNewsBlog</code></li>
<li>Date of 1st publication is optional, and supports surrounding text like above</li>
<li>Author and date of last revision are both independently optional, and only display if revision author or date are different from the original, with surrounding text</li>
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The plugin is initially intended for very small to much larger multi-author blogs (newspaper, magazine, webzine, collaborative publications, communities…) when an article is supposed to be signed by its author and not remain anonymous, as commonly expected in journalism and publishing.
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<li>Lastly, information is displayed in nested <code>div</code> and <code>span</code> so it is CSS ready, just up to you to do the styling to your taste. See the screenshots.</li>
<li>Integrates great with qTranslate for multilingual or international blogs, using <a href="http://www.qianqin.de/qtranslate/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3&p=15#p15" rel="nofollow ugc">Quicktags</a></li>
<li>Available in English, French, Belarusian (credit <a href="http://pc.de/" rel="nofollow ugc">Marcis Gasuns</a>), German (credit <a href="http://diensten.kiwa.nl/mvo" rel="nofollow ugc">Rian Kremer</a>), Hebrew (credit <a href="http://www.sagive.co.il" rel="nofollow ugc">Sagive</a>), Romanian (credit Luke Tyler), Slovak (credit <a href="http://webhostinggeeks.com/user-reviews/" rel="nofollow ugc">Branco Radenovich</a>) and Farsi (credit <a href="http://www.itstar.ir" rel="nofollow ugc">Hamed Nourhani</a>).</li>
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Post Author

Display author, writing and editing date - fully customizable for content, excerpt, home, archive... with exceptions. Great for multi-author websites.

Guest Author vs Post Author