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Guest Author

By WebFactory Ltd
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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.

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  • Gives you the ability to switch between registered user author and guest author.

Reviews

Personal URL not working

Jin-Liang, Lin December 30, 2022
My site use the themes “Twenty Twenty-Two”. Custom URLs will not appear on the name.

Close to perfection

gunawan004 December 7, 2022
Its good, but didnt save the guest data so i have to write the same data over and over again

Support only Free themes

dhirajshah August 29, 2022
They don't test their plugin with the best/higest selling premium themes, so they have zero clue if their plugin with work with those themes or not. They just blindly hope that their plugin works and if it doesn't, it's the Theme's fault only.

Works as described

inspired888 July 5, 2022 1 reply
I am mostly writing this review to counter what was written here: crudoadmin — March 5, 2021 — Its a piece of junk In my experience, the URL, Description and Avatar boxes are only greyed out if you haven't yet added an Author Name. If that first field (Name) is empty, then the other fields are disabled. This is to prevent people adding data to those other fields without providing an author name. Makes perfect sense to me. I suspect "crudoadmin" might not have taken the time to really test out what was going on. As for the plug-in itself ... works well. Out theme was even able to pull in the image, URL, and description (in the same way it pulls in the image, URL, and Bio from a registered user/author). Which means this plug-in is storing that info in standard Wordpress fields, as opposed to making something up (which was the case with the Simply Guest Author plug-in, which we had to ditch for that very reason).

Its a piece of junk

crudoadmin 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.

Great work, guys!

Dinev Dmitry December 9, 2020 1 reply
Great work, guys! Thanks!
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Contributors & Developers

“Guest Author” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors
  • WebFactory

“Guest Author” has been translated into 7 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Changelog

2.3

  • 2022-11-22
  • minor fixes

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

Meta

  • Version: 2.3
  • Last updated: 1 ⵉⵎⴰⵍⴰⵙⵙ ago
  • Active installations: 6,000+
  • WordPress Version: 4.6 or higher
  • Tested up to: 6.2
  • PHP Version: 5.2.4 or higher
  • Languages:

    Arabic, Chinese (Taiwan), Dutch, English (US), German, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, and Swedish.

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  • Tags:
    authorguestguest authorguest postpost author
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  • 4 stars 1
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  • 2 stars 0
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