Custom Guest Authors
Replace the default WordPress post author with custom guest author names via a custom field. Supports multiple comma-separated authors.
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·0 active installs·Updated 3 weeks agoAs of April 2026, Custom Guest Authors is a WordPress byline plugin with 0 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 717 times in total. Requires WordPress 5.7+ and PHP 8.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2026. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Top alternative: ThemeRuby Multi Authors – Assign….
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Overview
The Custom Guest Authors plugin (developed and maintained by Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi) lets you replace the WordPress post author display name with one or more custom guest author names, stored as post meta. No separate WordPress user accounts are required. Ideal for sites that publish content from external contributors, translators, or collaborative authors.
Guest author names are set directly from the post editor via a dedicated sidebar panel — available in both the classic editor and the Gutenberg block editor. The raw guest-author custom field key also works for programmatic or WP-CLI workflows.
This plugin was inspired by a tutorial from WPBeginner.
Features
Author name override
- Replaces the WordPress post author name with a custom guest author name on the front end.
- Supports mult…
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.7+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 8.2+ required |
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Changelog
2.3.1
- Fixed: Plugin Check audit warnings for unprefixed variables in uninstall.php and the admin view templates. All variables are confirmed to be function-scoped; inline PHPCS directives added as Plugin Check does not honour phpcs.xml exclusion patterns for this rule.
- Fixed: Direct database query in uninstall.php now carries the correct inline suppression annotations, consistent with equivalent queries elsewhere in the plugin.
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