Guest Author Plugin
Add a guest author to any post without needing to register the guest author as a user on your site.
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.
FAQ
Just use standard Plugin overview page in WordPress admin section and deactivate it or rename plugin folder /wp-content/plugins/guest-author over FTP access.
No, it won’t. It’s only loaded on the pages it protects.
You can report security bugs through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team help validate, triage and handle any security vulnerabilities. Report a security vulnerability.
Changelog
2.5
- 2023-12-05
- Guest author name bug fix
2.4
- 2023-11-29
- security fix
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