Change Author
This plugin lets you assign non-authors as post author.
4(12 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 8 years agoAs of April 2026, Change Author is a WordPress user plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4/5 rating from 12 reviews. It has been downloaded 39K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 16% this week. Top alternative: User Role Editor.
4/512 reviews
1.0K+active installs
39K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
Do you have a blog/website with a lot of contributing authors but you do not want to give them the rights to publish
the articles themselves for whatever reason? In that case it would be nice when you are able to give them credit for
what they wrote anyway. Since WordPress cannot override the author with a non-author by default, this plugin overrides
the Author meta-box with a meta box that can select any user.
So whenever you want to place an article that was written by someone else, you just create a user with subscriber role
(if he/she hasn’t already) and assign the article to that user!
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Just awesome
by vnkjoshi·7 years ago
Work as expected. Thank you so much.
Works great. Like it!
by romanbitca·7 years ago
easy. useful. light.
No longer works…but here’s a fix:
by Alex Mansfield·7 years ago·2 replies
This plugin attempts to override the default author meta box, but that doesn’t seem to work any more. However, it is possible to simply filter the options for the author dropdown list like this to get the same result:
function add_subscribers_to_dropdown( $query_args, $r ) {
$query_args['who'] = '';
return $query_args;
}
add_filter( 'wp_dropdown_users_args', 'add_subscribers_to_dropdown', 10, 2 );More details in the user contributed notes for the wp_dropdown_users_args filter.
- This topic was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by Alex Mansfield.
Not Compatible With Latest Version of WP
by clicksimply·7 years ago
This plugin doesn’t work on the newest versions of WordPress. Hopefully the author updates soon!
Doesn’t seem to work anymore
by agsrescue·8 years ago
With the addon installed, nothing changed or allowed me to change the name of the author on my multisite.
Download Trends
Today: 6Yesterday: 6This week: 37Period total: 6K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0.1+ requiredTested up to 4.8.28 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.3
96.1%
v1.1
3.9%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.0
- Initial release
Contributors
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