Guest Author Boxes

I figured it out by adding another conditional to Genesis Co-Authors Plus.

Since I’d set up Co-Authors Plus so that none of my guest authors were linked accounts (to allow for author boxes on original content they’d written vs posting items from news feeds and press releases), all i needed to do was exclude profiles that weren’t guest authors, and presto, authors boxes on guest profiles and no author boxes on user profiles.

Basically, in the function jg_do_author_box, I added this conditional after the first conditional:

if( $author->type != 'guest-author' )
		return;

This thread also has the details on what I’d added:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/guest-authors-and-author-boxes

I also ended up using the Social Pack extension, https://github.com/Automattic/Co-Authors-Plus-Social-Pack

It was confusing at first because the wording over at Github made it seem like you needed to use Jetpack in order for the add-on to work, but since you only need Jetpack to allow the guest authors to use their own personal social media links (something I didn’t need), this add-on turned out just fine.