PublishPress Authors: Show Multiple Authors and Guest Authors in an Author Box free WordPress plugin

PublishPress Authors allows you to show an author box at the end of your posts. This author box can display one author, multiple authors or even guest authors. This box has the author’s name, avatar, description and more. You can also place the author box in widgets, shortcodes and Gutenberg blocks. Here are the three most important features of PublishPress Authors: Author Box. As soon as you install PublishPress Authors, you’ll see an author box under every post. You can add all the profile details you need for each author. Multiple Authors. By default, WordPress only allows one author per post. PublishPress Authors allows you to add an unlimited number of authors to each post. This is very useful if you have a busy site and need to manage and give credit to all your writers. Guest Authors. You can create Guest Authors who don’t have an account on your site. This is important because not all writers need a username and password. Multiple Authors and Co-Authors With PublishPress Authors, you can set multiple authors for each post. When you write a post, you’ll see a box in the right sidebar. Here you can choose from all the users on your site, and assign them as authors. On the frontend of your site. PublishPress Authors gives you several different options to display the authors’ box: * Replacing the default author display. * At the bottom of your content. * In a widget or a Gutenberg block. * Using shortcodes. * Adding filters and actions in your template files. Click here to read about displaying authors. Guest Authors Using PublishPress Authors, you can create Guest Authors who don’t need an account on your site. PublishPress will treat Guest Authors identically to Authors who are linked users. You will be able to select and display Guest Authors in exactly the same way as for registered users. Each Guest Author can have a full profile, plus an avatar, and their own archive page for blog posts. Click here to see how to create Guest Authors. Multiple Layout Options for Author Profiles PublishPress Authors provides five default ways to display the author profiles on your site. In the PublishPress Authors settings you can choose from these layouts: Simple list Boxed Centered Inline Inline with Avatars Click here to see details on all the layout options Custom Fields for Author Profiles (Pro version) PublishPress Authors Pro enables you to create custom fields and enhance your author profiles. You can add Text, WYSIWYG, Link and email address fields. Then you can place those fields in author profiles using custom layouts. Custom Layouts for Author Profiles (Pro version) PublishPress Authors enables you to build custom layouts for your author profiles. Using all your author information and custom fields, you can design beautiful layouts for your authors. Each layout is editable using HTML and PHP. You can add many different types of author information to these layouts including custom fields. Click here to see how to customize author layouts. Join PublishPress and get the Pro plugins The Pro versions of the PublishPress plugins are well worth your investment. The Pro versions have extra features and faster support. Click here to join PublishPress. Join PublishPress and you’ll get access to these plugins: * Advanced Gutenberg add over 20 layout options, sliders, buttons, icons, image galleries, maps, tabs, testimonials, accordions, and much more. * PublishPress Authors Pro allows you to add multiple authors and guest authors to WordPress posts * PublishPress Capabilities Pro is the plugin to manage your WordPress user roles, permissions, and capabilities. * PublishPress Checklists Pro enables you to define tasks that must be completed before content is published. * PublishPress Permissions Pro is the plugin for advanced WordPress permissions. * PublishPress Pro is the plugin for managing and scheduling WordPress content. * PublishPress Revisions Pro allows you to update your published pages with teamwork and precision. Together, these plugins are a suite of powerful publishing tools for WordPress. If you need to create a professional workflow in WordPress, with moderation, revisions, permissions and more … then you should try PublishPress. Bug Reports Bug reports for PublishPress Authors are welcomed in our repository on GitHub. Please note that GitHub is not a support forum, and that issues that aren’t properly qualified as bugs will be closed. Follow the PublishPress team Follow PublishPress on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Thank You This plugin is partly based on Co-Authors Plus, which includes the work of batmoo, danielbachhuber and automattic. This plugin also uses work from the Bylines plugin by danielbachhuber. Usage Go to admin page, click on the “Authors” menu and create new author profiles. Go to write a new post and you’ll see the box for selecting multiple authors in the sidebar.