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Scott Bressler

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This plugin adds a “Credit” field when uploading media to posts and displays it under the images on your blog to properly credit the artist.
When adding media through the Media Uploader tool or editing media already in the Media Library, this plugin adds a new field to the media form that allows users to assign credit for given media to a user of your blog (assisted with autocomplete) or to any freeform text (e.g. courtesy photos, etc.).
When this media is then inserted into a post, a new shortcode, <code>[media-credit]</code>, surrounds the media, inside of any caption, with the provided media credit information. Media credit inside this shortcode is then displayed on your blog under your media with the class <code>.media-credit</code>, which has some default styling but which you can customize to your heart’s content.
You can also display all the media by an author on the author’s page. See more in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-credit/faq/" rel="ugc">FAQ</a>. 
Options
This plugin provides a few options which appear on the Media page under Settings. These options are:
<ul>
<li>Separator</li>
<li>Organization</li>
<li>Display credits after post</li>
</ul>
Example
This is best explained with an example. With a separator of ” | ” and an organization of The Daily Times, media inserted will be followed with a credit line appearing as follows, with the username linking to the author page for that user:
<a href="" rel="nofollow ugc">John Smith</a> | The Daily Times
Further explanation
Separator: These are the characters that separate the display name for a user on your blog from the name of the organization, as described below. The default separator is ” | ” but feel free to change this to suit your needs.
Organization: This is what appears after the separator as listed above. The default organization is the name of your blog.
Display credits after post: With this option enabled, media credit shortcodes will not appear by default when inserting media into your posts. Instead, the plugin will look through the content of your posts for any media attachments and display something like the following at the end of each post with the CSS class .media-credit-end:
Images courtesy of <a href="" rel="nofollow ugc">John Smith</a> | The Daily Times, Michael Scott and Jane Doe.
In this example, John Smith is a user of your blog, while the latter two credits are not.

Media Credit

Does exactly what is asked of it, resources for developers, what more could you ask for?

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Adds a "Credit" field when uploading media to posts and displays it under the images on your blog to properly credit the artist.

Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi

The Custom Guest Authors plugin (developed and maintained by <a href="https://menj.blog" rel="nofollow ugc">Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi</a>) lets you replace the WordPress post author display name with one or more custom guest author names, stored as post meta. No separate WordPress user accounts are required. Ideal for sites that publish content from external contributors, translators, or collaborative authors.
Guest author names are set directly from the post editor via a dedicated sidebar panel — available in both the classic editor and the Gutenberg block editor. The raw <code>guest-author</code> custom field key also works for programmatic or WP-CLI workflows.
This plugin was inspired by a tutorial from <a href="https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-rewrite-guest-author-name-with-custom-fields-in-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPBeginner</a>.
Features
Author name override
<ul>
<li>Replaces the WordPress post author name with a custom guest author name on the front end.</li>
<li>Supports multiple authors — enter names separated by commas (e.g. <code>John Doe, Jane Smith</code>).</li>
<li>Three join styles for multi-author display: Natural (<code>A, B and C</code>), Comma (<code>A, B, C</code>), Ampersand (<code>A & B & C</code>).</li>
<li>Optional site-wide fallback name shown on posts with no per-post guest author set.</li>
<li>Works with both classic themes (via <code>the_author</code> filter) and block/FSE themes (via <code>get_the_author_display_name</code> filter).</li>
</ul>
Post type support
<ul>
<li>Applies to any combination of public post types — Posts, Pages, and any registered custom post type.</li>
<li>Post type selection is configurable from the General tab in Settings.</li>
</ul>
Display control
<ul>
<li>Apply the override everywhere (singles, archives, feeds) or restrict it to single post views only.</li>
<li>Author archive links are automatically suppressed when a guest author is active — guest authors are not WordPress users and have no author archive.</li>
</ul>
Structured data
<ul>
<li>Optional suppression of the <code>author</code> property from JSON-LD schema output.</li>
<li>Compatible with Yoast SEO (<code>wpseo_schema_graph</code> filter) and Rank Math (<code>rank_math/schema/article</code> filter).</li>
</ul>
Performance
<ul>
<li>Author name lookups are cached per post using WordPress transients (default lifetime: 12 hours, configurable from 1 to 168 hours).</li>
<li>Cache is invalidated immediately on post save, and on any direct post meta add, update, or delete — including REST API and WP-CLI writes.</li>
<li>Cache is automatically flushed on plugin update to clear stale entries from older installs.</li>
</ul>
Settings
Settings are available at Settings › Guest Authors, organised across four tabs:
<ul>
<li>General — fallback guest author name, active post types.</li>
<li>Display — multi-author join style, show override on singular or all views, live preview.</li>
<li>Advanced — cache lifetime, JSON-LD schema suppression toggle.</li>
<li>Debug — live diagnostics panel, system information, cache status, and a manual post-ID tester.</li>
</ul>
Translation
<ul>
<li>Bundled Malay (Malaysia) translation (<code>ms_MY</code>).</li>
<li>All strings are internationalised and ready for translation via a <code>.pot</code> template file.</li>
</ul>

Custom Guest Authors

Replace the default WordPress post author with custom guest author names via a custom field. Supports multiple comma-separated authors.

Media Credit vs Custom Guest Authors