Description
Add a guest author to any post without needing to register the guest author as a user on your site.
Features
- ✍️ Behaves as if guest authors were regular authors.
- 👤 Upload your own avatar image instead of using Gravatar.
- 🌍 Link to a custom page for the guest author.
- 🔥 Perfect for guest posts.
Looking for nicer author boxes with more options? Check out our free Simple Author Box plugin.
Screenshots
Gives you the ability to switch between registered user author and guest author.
Reviews
March 5, 2021
It only allows to change Author to Guest and ad a name to the author, but it does not allow to add an Avatar (it's greyed out) nor a url (it's also greyed out) and in the post the "guest Author" name is not shown correctly but instead it shows the website's admin user.
December 9, 2020
Great work, guys! Thanks!
February 14, 2020
It's missing a few features that would make guest posts even more convenient, but other than that it's very good.
December 10, 2019
In my case I needed something that would create the admin part an I can then use it on my custom theme. Definitely saved me some time to create my own custom meta boxes for the posts. Needed only to customize the single post template page to show the guest meta information.
July 24, 2019
This is hands-down the easiest to use Guest Author plugin in the repo, and has made this issue (public display of custom Guest Author names without creating dozens or hundreds of WP user accounts) super easy to address.
Found a weird bug in an edge case (ajax refresh within Elementor posts widget), and the plugin author responded + updated the plugin's code to fix the issue ASAP. Fantastic work!
July 4, 2019
A Great plugin!! The developer of this plugin is extremely supportive
The plugin had a small incompatibility with one theme and upon reporting it, the author went out of his way fixed it right away. Appreciate the great work and great support !!
Contributors & Developers
“Guest Author” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
2.2
- 2020-05-09
- minor fixes
2.1.8
- Bug fixes
2.1.5
- Makes author links optional. You can just leave the link blank.
- Bug fixes
2.1.3
- Bug fixes
2.1.2
- Fixes a bug where the plugin doesn’t work with ajax requests
2.1
- Fixes an issue with author avatar displaying for user comments
- Now uses theme defaults for avatar styles
2.0
- Adds support to Gutenberg. Finally 🎉
1.9.1
- Adds support to Elementor’s Author Box Widget