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1. quinemi
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I am admin for a student newspaper that is running WordPress as a CMS. We did not want to create a user account for every freelancer that contributed a story, but we wanted to be able to show their name in the byline.

   I found this blog http://www.wprecipes.com/rewrite-author-name-with-custom-field
   that talks about using the custom field to rewrite the author's name.

   This works as well, to overwrite the default display name and add the specific author to each post.

   I created one account for all freelancers and added a custom field for guest-author.

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   And if you use something like that you lose a powerful feature of WordPress, being able to click on an author's name to see all their other posts.

   But if you use http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-field-taxonomies/ you can somewhat simulate that behavior with custom fields.

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