Guest Author
Add a guest author to any post without needing to register the guest author as a user on your site.
4.2(14 reviews)
·5.0K+ active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, Guest Author is a WordPress guest plugin with 5.0K+ active installations and a 4.2/5 rating from 14 reviews. It has been downloaded 72K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP 5.2.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Downloads are down 16% this week. Top alternative: Post Password Token.
4.2/514 reviews
5.0K+active installs
72K+total downloads
8 yearssince 2018
Overview
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.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
What they call support is rather weird
by Hanno·1 year ago
There was another comment that I’m simply repeating here because it describes my situation exactly – after three years, nothing has changed:
“They don’t test their plugin with the best/highest selling premium themes, so they have zero clue if their plugin will work with those themes or not. They just blindly hope that their plugin works and if it doesn’t, it’s the Theme’s fault only.”
Feature request: nofollow the guest author URL
by Nima Shayanfar·1 year ago·1 reply
The plugin works as advertised and is quite simple and handy. I have one request though. These days nofollowing the URL might be suitable for some admins. So it is missing.
Personal URL not working
by Jin-Liang, Lin·3 years ago
My site use the themes “Twenty Twenty-Two”. Custom URLs will not appear on the name.
Close to perfection
by gunawan004·3 years ago
Its good, but didnt save the guest data so i have to write the same data over and over again
- This topic was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by gunawan004.
- This topic was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by gunawan004.
Support only Free themes
by dhirajshah·3 years ago
They don’t test their plugin with the best/higest selling premium themes, so they have zero clue if their plugin with work with those themes or not. They just blindly hope that their plugin works and if it doesn’t, it’s the Theme’s fault only.
Download Trends
Today: 7Yesterday: 19This week: 97Period total: 14K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.2.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.61
70.8%
v2.5
17.9%
Other
6.2%
v2.2
5.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.61
- 2025-09-18
- minor code fix
Contributors
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