Kajal Gohel

<p><strong>Post CoAuthors</strong> is a lightweight and optimized plugin that allows you to assign multiple contributors to any WordPress post. The plugin adds a meta box to the post editor, where administrators, editors, and authors can assign contributors from existing users. All contributor data is stored as post metadata, ensuring compatibility with WordPress standards.</p>
<p>It integrates seamlessly with the WordPress admin UI and provides clean uninstallation by removing all plugin-related metadata.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Assign multiple contributors to any post.</li>
<li>Display contributors on the frontend (theme support required).</li>
<li>Admin UI integration with post editor.</li>
<li>Clean uninstall – removes plugin data safely.</li>
<li>Built using WordPress coding standards.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Developed by Kajal Gohel.<br />
Based on guidance from the <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Plugin Developer Handbook</a>.</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 or later.</p>


Post CoAuthors

Assign multiple contributors to posts and display them on the frontend. Lightweight and admin-friendly.

Mark-k

<p>Decouple authors from users. Instead of using users as authors use a special taxonomy for it.</p>
<p>The plugin gives a simple way to have “guest author”, user generated content, multiple authors,<br />
or any other setting in which you might not want to give people access permissions to the admin<br />
side of WordPress but still want to give credit to the author and have some way to aggregate<br />
his/hers posts on the site.</p>
<p>You can combine this plugin with any other plugin which prevent user enumeration to prevent<br />
user name leakage and</p>
<p>Read more on the plugins main page https://calmpress.org/authors-as-taxonomy/</p>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
<h4>Contribute</h4>
<p>Pull Requests, bug reports and/or enhancement suggestions are welcome at https://github.com/calmPress/Authors-as-taxonomy</p>


Authors as Taxonomy

Decouple authors from users. Instead of using users as authors use a special taxonomy for it.

Post CoAuthors vs Authors as Taxonomy