Decouple authors from users. Instead of using users as authors use a special taxonomy for it.
As of April 2026, Authors as Taxonomy is a WordPress authors plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.5K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.5+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Co-Authors, Multiple Authors and Guest….
Decouple authors from users. Instead of using users as authors use a special taxonomy for it.
The plugin gives a simple way to have “guest author”, user generated content, multiple authors,
or any other setting in which you might not want to give people access permissions to the admin
side of WordPress but still want to give credit to the author and have some way to aggregate
his/hers posts on the site.
You can combine this plugin with any other plugin which prevent user enumeration to prevent
user name leakage and
Read more on the plugins main page https://calmpress.org/authors-as-taxonomy/
Pull Requests, bug reports and/or enhancement suggestions are welcome at https://github.com/calmPress/Authors-as-taxonomy
| WordPress | 4.5+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
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