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Co-Authors Plus

Allows multiple authors to be assigned to any post type via a search-as-you-type input box

Download Version 2.6.1

2011-12-30 / 2.6.1

2011-12-22 / 2.6

  • Sortable authors: Drag and drop the order of the authors as you'd like them to appear (props kingkool68)
  • Search for authors by display name (instead of nicename which was essentially the same as user_login)
  • Option to remove the first author when there are two or more so it's less confusing
  • Bumped requirements to WordPress 3.1
  • Bug fix: Update the published post count for each user more reliably

2011-08-14 / 2.5.3

  • Bug fix: Removed extra comma when only two authors were listed. If you used the COAUTHORS_DEFAULT_BETWEEN_LAST constant, double-check what you have

2011-04-23 / 2.5.2

  • Bug: Couldn't query terms and authors at the same time (props nbaxley)
  • Bug: Authors with empty fields (e.g. first name) were displaying blank in some cases
  • Bug: authors with spaces in usernames not getting saved (props MLmsw, Ruben S. and others!)
  • Bug: revisions getting wrong user attached (props cliquenoir!)

2011-03-26 / 2.5.1

  • Fix with author post count (throwing errors)

2011-03-26 / 2.5

  • Custom Post Type Support
  • Compatibility with WP 3.0 and 3.1
  • Gravatars
  • Lots and lots and lots of bug fixes
  • Thanks to everyone who submitted bugs, fixes, and suggestions! And for your patience!

2009-10-16 / 2.1.1

  • Fix for coauthors not being added if their username is different from display name
  • Fixes to readme.txt (fixes for textual and punctuation errors, language clarification, minor formatting changes) courtesy of Waldo Jaquith

2009-10-11 / 2.1

  • Fixed issues related to localization. Thanks to Jan Zombik zombik@students.uni-mainz.de for the fixes.
  • Added set_time_limit to update function to get around timeout issues when upgrading plugin

2009-10-11 / 2.0

  • Plugin mostly rewritten to make use of taxonomy instead of post_meta
  • Can now see all authors of a post under the author column from Edit Posts page
  • All authors of a post are now notified on a new comment
  • Various javascript enhancements
  • New option to allow subscribers to be added as authors
  • All Authors can edit they posts of which they are coauthors
  • FIX: Issues with wp_coauthors_list function
  • FIX: Issues with coauthored posts not showing up on author archives

2009-06-16 / 1.2.0

  • FIX: Added compatibility for WordPress 2.8
  • FIX: Added new template tags (get_the_coauthor_meta & the_coauthor_meta) to fix issues related to displaying author info on author archive pages. See Other Notes for details.
  • FIX: Plugin should now work for plugins not using the 'wp_' DB prefix
  • FIX: Coauthors should no longer be alphabetically reordered when the post is updated
  • FIX: Plugin now used WordPress native AJAX calls to tighten security
  • DOCS: Added details about the new template tags

2009-04-26 / 1.1.5

  • FIX: Not searching Updated SQL query for autosuggest to search through first name, last name, and nickname
  • FIX: When editing an author, and clicking on a suggested author, the original author was not be removed
  • DOCS: Added code comments to javascript; more still to be added
  • DOCS: Updated readme information

2009-04-25 / 1.1.4

  • Disabled "New Author" output in suggest box, for now
  • Hopefully fixed SVN issue (if you're having trouble with the plugin, please delete the plugin and reinstall)

2009-04-23 / 1.1.3

  • Add blur event to disable input box
  • Limit only one edit at a time.
  • Checked basic cross-browser compatibility (Firefox 3 OS X, Safari 3 OS X, IE7 Vista).
  • Add suggest javascript plugin to Edit Page.

2009-04-19 / 1.1.2

  • Disabled form submit when enter pressed.

2009-04-15 / 1.1.1

  • Changed SQL query to return only contributor-level and above users.

2009-04-14: 1.1.0

  • Initial beta release.

Requires: 3.1 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.3.1
Last Updated: 2011-12-23 Downloads: 21,424

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