Molongui Post Contributors: Multi-Role Contributor Attribution

July 19, 2024

Molongui Post Contributors: Multi-Role Contributor Attribution Plugin

Easily add reviewers, fact-checkers, illustrators, and any other attribution to your WordPress posts and display them towards the post author.

Unlock the power of teamwork on your WordPress site with Molongui Post Contributors. This intuitive plugin lets you effortlessly add and showcase every member of your content team, allowing specific role attribution for reviewers, fact-checkers, photographers, and more. By enhancing collaborative content creation and recognition, Molongui Post Contributors enriches your posts with clear, visible credits. It’s ideal for blogs, news sites, magazines, and educational platforms, boosting collaboration and giving credit where it’s due. Elevate your content game, engage your audience, and celebrate teamwork like never before. Install now to acknowledge every contribution and take your articles to the next level!

Main Features

Role Attribution: Assign specific roles to each contributor (e.g., reviewer, fact-checker, photographer)
Easy Integration: Seamlessly integrates with your WordPress theme
Customizable Displays: Customize how contributor names and roles are displayed on posts
Automated Credits: Automatically generate and insert contributor credits
SEO Friendly: Enhances SEO with structured data for contributors
Responsive Design: Ensures post byline looks great on all devices
Shortcode Support: Use shortcodes to display post byline anywhere on your site
Compatibility: Works with all major WordPress page builders

Premium Features

✨ Premium features only available in Molongui Post Contributors Pro
Multiple Contributors: Add multiple contributors to a single post
Guest Contributors: Add contributors without a user account (no WP users)
Additional Layouts: Premium designs for your post byline and posts
Custom Post Type Support
Custom User Role Support

This plugin uses a third-party service to enable live chat communication with our support team, exclusively for administrators in the backend. You can disable this service via the plugin settings page. For more information about the live chat service provider review their privacy policy and terms.

Installation

Automatic Plugin Installation

To install this plugin using the built-in plugin installer:

Go to: Plugins > Add New.
Type in Molongui Post Contributors in the search box.
Click on Install Now to install the plugin.
The resulting installation screen will list the installation as successful or note any problems during the install.
If successful, click on the Activate Plugin button to activate the plugin, or Return to Plugin Installer for further actions.

Manual Plugin Installation

To install the plugin manually:

Download the plugin to your computer.
Extract the plugin folder to your desktop.
With your FTP program, upload the extracted plugin folder to the wp-content/plugins folder in your WordPress directory.
Go to Plugins screen and find the newly uploaded plugin in the list.
Click Activate to activate it.

If you need further assistance, please, read the “Installing Plugins” article on the WordPress Codex or write us an email so we can assist you.

Requirements

In order to run, Molongui Post Contributors requires:

PHP version 5.6.20 or greater. Considering WordPress recommends it to be 7.4 or greater, this should not be a problem.
WordPress 5.2.0 or later

Screenshots

Post byline showing the name of the reviewer below the post author
Post byline showing the name of the reviewer towards the post author
Post byline showing additional post information towards the post author
Post byline showing additional post information below the post author
[PRO only] Post byline showing avatars for both author and reviewer
The block for the WP Block Editor
The widget for Elementor

FAQ

Will Molongui Post Contributors work with my theme?

Yes. Molongui Post Contributors is compatible with any theme. We’ve’e added integration with most popular themesYou may face some issues though, like the author box not having a style you configured or the author pages not listing co-authored posts. In such cases, you can open a support ticket with us and we will look into it to find a compatibility fix.

Can I add multiple contributors to a post?

Yes. To add multiple contributors to a single post, you need to upgrade the plugin to the Pro version. You can check all premium features out here.

Is it possible to add contributors that do not have an account in my site?

Yes. To add guest contributors —that’s names that are not WordPress Users— you need to upgrade the plugin to the Pro version. You can check all premium features out here.

Does Molongui Post Contributors work with Elementor?

Yes. To add the post byline in your designs, just use the “Bylines” widget. You can also add a “Shortcode” widget and insert the [molongui_post_byline] shortcode. Both options will display the post byline, but the widget allows you to configure some options.

Does Molongui Post Contributors work with the WP Block Editor?

Yes. To add the post byline in your designs, just use the “Bylines” block. You can also add a “Shortcode” widget and insert the [molongui_post_byline] shortcode. Both options will display the post byline, but the block allows you to configure some options.

Where can I find documentation and user guides?

For help setting up and configuring this plugin, please refer to our documentation.

How do I get support for this plugin?

We’re following the threads on this plugin public Support Forum and based on them, we always try to build up new and better implementations for the plugin.

To help us answer questions as quickly as possible please ensure you provide:

A link to your site so we can view issues, especially important for issues around appearance of your website
Screenshots
Environment Report: This can give us a lot of very useful information. Navigate to Settings > Post Contributors > Help, find the System Status panel, and press the Send Report button.

Paying Pro Customers

If you have purchased a Pro plugin at molongui.com, you can get help faster opening a support ticket using this link. As a Pro Customer, you get Premium Support which comes with priority over requests on this plugin public Support Forum.

Changelog

1.3.1 (2024-07-19)

Fixed post template #4
Fixed some other minor issues
Updated framework files to version 3.1.0

1.3.0 (2024-07-15)

Fixed custom post templates
Added custom post templates styling options
Added WordPress 6.6 compatibility

1.2.2 (2024-07-04)

Added Twenty Twenty theme integration
Added Twenty Twenty-One theme integration
Fixed Divi theme integration
Fixed contributors selector display

1.2.1 (2024-07-03)

Updated Newspaper theme integration
Fixed PHP fatal error thrown when missing setting
Fixed hiding default theme byline not working
Fixed Setup Wizard not redirecting after completion when updating contributor roles

1.2.0 (2024-07-02)

Added Avada theme integration
Added Blocksy theme integration
Added Divi theme integration
Added Extra theme integration
Added Flatsome theme integration
Added jNews theme integration
Added OceanWP theme integration
Redesigned setup wizard
Fixed users with the ‘contributor’ user role not being eligible as post contributor
Removed the ‘edit_posts’ capability requirement to be eligible as post contributor

1.1.0 (2024-06-24)

Redesigned contributor selector

1.0.2 (2024-06-21)

Fixed post contributors not being saved
Fixed fatal error caused by missing function
Fixed malformed SQL query that threw a warning during uninstallation

1.0.1 (2024-06-17)

Contributor names now link to their author page
Fixed template overridden on pages other than posts

1.0.0 (2024-06-03)

Initial release

See changelog for all versions here.