Additional Authors

Let’s you add more than one author to your posts.

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1. Upload additional-authors-wordpress.zip to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Extract the Plugin to a Additional Authors Folder
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

1.3.5

• Fix: PHP 8.2 warnings
• Fix: double slash in asset urls
• Packages update

1.3.3

• Packages update

1.3.2

• WordPress Core compatibility fix
• Packages update

1.3.1

• Update: JS packages update

1.3.0

• Feature: Show posts count on users table with additional author posts inclusive

1.2.13

• Bugfix: Post type may be array on change post count hook

1.2.12

• Optimization: Post table all authors list
• Bugfix: Delete user crash

1.2.11

• Optimization: Add admins and editors to additional author dropdown

1.2.10

• Bugfix: Additional authors script broke reusable block editor

1.2.9

• Optimization: autocomplete search case insensitive
• Optimization: click outside hides dropdown

1.2.8

• Bugfix: Missing migration script

1.2.7

• WP5.7 checked
• Bugfix: Database update error

1.2.6

• Performance: WP_Query performance optimization
• Update: Dependency updates
• Bugfix: Cannot delete last additional author from post

1.2.5

• Bugfix: Gutenberg no POST index fix

1.2.4

• Optimization: only show additional authors im post type supports author feature
• Feature: Customizing filter for get_users args in meta box

1.2.3

• Optimization: Additional authors are included in has_published_posts WP_User_Query
• Feature: New WP_User_Query argument “ignore_published_as_additional_author” for ignoring additional authors with “has_published_posts”

1.2.2

• Fix: Query manipulation fix which lead to duplicate posts

1.2.1

• Feature: Link to user profile page

1.2.0

• Ready for 5.0 and Gutenberg
• Optimization: With Gutenberg editor only the additional authors will be visible in post meta box. The post author was removed and needs to be handle with default post edit controls.
• Info: post_meta _additional_authors is deprecated and will be will not be saved anymore
• Bugfix: Delete user

1.1.5

• Bugfix: Add empty additional author fix
• Bugfix: Listen to wordpress author field change

1.1.4

• BugFix: authors could not be added because of bad timing with onBlur
• BugFix: keep order of additional authors
• Feature: All WP_Query will use additional authors not only on authors page
• Feature: new filter to set the default for ignoring or using additional authors with WP_Query
• Optimization: Query manipulation optimization for author page

1.1.3

• BugFix: IE11

1.1.2

• Extendable meta box

1.1.1

• Added Gutenberg support
• CSS styles

1.1

• Author keys move from postmeta to custom table
• SQL Performance optimization

1.0

• First release