Title: Authors as Taxonomy
Author: Mark-k
Published: <strong>December 16, 2017</strong>
Last modified: December 16, 2017

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Authors as Taxonomy

 By [Mark-k](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mark-k/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/authors-as-taxonomy.1.0.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/authors-as-taxonomy/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/authors-as-taxonomy/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/authors-as-taxonomy/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/authors-as-taxonomy/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/authors-as-taxonomy/)

## Description

Decouple authors from users. Instead of using users as authors use a special taxonomy
for it.

The plugin gives a simple way to have “guest author”, user generated content, multiple
authors,
 or any other setting in which you might not want to give people access
permissions to the admin side of WordPress but still want to give credit to the 
author and have some way to aggregate his/hers posts on the site.

You can combine this plugin with any other plugin which prevent user enumeration
to prevent
 user name leakage and

Read more on the plugins main page https://calmpress.org/authors-as-taxonomy/

#### Documentation

#### Contribute

Pull Requests, bug reports and/or enhancement suggestions are welcome at https://
github.com/calmPress/Authors-as-taxonomy

## Installation

After installing the plugin via your favorite installation method, you will probably
want
 to go over existing posts, and create and associate authors with them.

In the case you have many posts, and a theme that displays author informtion (why
would you use the plugin otherwise 😉 )
 and do not feel the need to have an author
associated with all of them, you will probably want to modify your theme to display
author information only when it is not “empty”.

## FAQ

  Installation Instructions

After installing the plugin via your favorite installation method, you will probably
want
 to go over existing posts, and create and associate authors with them.

In the case you have many posts, and a theme that displays author informtion (why
would you use the plugin otherwise 😉 )
 and do not feel the need to have an author
associated with all of them, you will probably want to modify your theme to display
author information only when it is not “empty”.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Authors as Taxonomy” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Mark-k ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mark-k/)

[Translate “Authors as Taxonomy” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/authors-as-taxonomy)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/authors-as-taxonomy/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/authors-as-taxonomy/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/authors-as-taxonomy/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/authors-as-taxonomy/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.0 – December 16th 2017

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.0**
 *  Last updated **8 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.9.29**
 *  PHP version ** 7.0 or higher **
 * Tags
 * [authors](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/authors/)[calmPress](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/calmpress/)
   [multiple authors](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/multiple-authors/)[security](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/security/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/authors-as-taxonomy/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Mark-k ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mark-k/)

## Support

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