It’s not easily possible now without custom PHP and JS development.
However, I think it’s a neat idea. We’ll see if we can get to it at some point in the future.
I was thinking about something similar.
If “guest author” is a custom post type, as I’ve read elsewhere (correct me if not,) it should be possible to add custom fields for that post type in functions.php like any other CPT. (maybe?)
So with some theme customization, you could add a “role” field to denote your author and your illustrator for example.
I’m actually wondering if I can change the slug from “author” to contributor, or even “personnel” so that wordpress would display them at the URL domain.com/contributors.
(Some of my authors maintain a biography, but don’t actually “author” anything.)
@kato Your described use-case is already doable in much of the manner you’ve described. The original request on this thread was for roles on a post by post basis.
I’m actually wondering if I can change the slug from “author” to contributor, or even “personnel” so that wordpress would display them at the URL domain.com/contributors.
Hmm… that’s never come up before. Not sure how doable it is, but I’ve filed a feature request.
Hey thanks.
i’m wondering if I can’t just hook into the post type registration in my functions file like this:
$post_type_args = array(
'show_in_nav_menus' => true,
'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'contributors', 'with_front' => false ),
);
register_post_type('guest_authors',$post_type_args);
}
