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Author: David Shabtai

This simple plugin adds publication information at the bottom of the content of a post or a page:

• Name of the author of the post or page
• Date of first publication
• Date of last revision

It is flexible and offers the following options in the admin menu:

• Write your own label before and after the name of the author: e.g. Contributed by Author Name for OurNewsBlog
• Date of 1st publication is optional, and supports surrounding text like above
• Date of last revision is optional, and only displays if different from the publication date, with surrounding text
• Display the information on post or page or both
• Add an optional link on the name to the author's Wordpress bio/posts page
• Specific per-post/per-page exception: hide the information on any post and page you want!

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.

• Lastly, information is displayed in nested div and span so it is CSS ready, just up to you to do the styling to your taste. See the screenshots.
• Integrates great with qTranslate for multilingual or international blogs, using Quicktags

Important notice: I am no developer and this is my first plugin. I hope those of you who will download it will send me some feedback here so as to know what works and what doesn't, fix bugs, and help translate the plugin as well.