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Change Author

by Martin Teley

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Description

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!

Install via WordPress Admin

  1. Go to Admin > Plugins > Add New
  2. Either search for Change Author or upload the zip file and click “Install”
  3. After installation, activate it

Install via FTP

  1. First unzip the plugin file
  2. Using FTP go to your server’s wp-content/plugins directory
  3. Upload the unzipped plugin here
  4. Once finished login into your WP Admin and go to Admin > Plugins
  5. Look for Change Author and activate it

Installation Instructions

Install via WordPress Admin

  1. Go to Admin > Plugins > Add New
  2. Either search for Change Author or upload the zip file and click “Install”
  3. After installation, activate it

Install via FTP

  1. First unzip the plugin file
  2. Using FTP go to your server’s wp-content/plugins directory
  3. Upload the unzipped plugin here
  4. Once finished login into your WP Admin and go to Admin > Plugins
  5. Look for Change Author and activate it

Do I need to configure anything?

No, this plugin does not need a settings page.

I don’t see the meta box, where is it?

Click ‘Screen Options’ at the upper right corner and check the box next to ‘Author’.

Why can’t I just type the name of the person I want to credit as author instead of having to use a user account?

Well, some themes link the author name to the author archive and that needs a user account to work. So this plugin will not break such theme functions.

What post types are supported?

All public post types are supported, both built-in and custom.

Just awesome

By vnkjoshi on January 3, 2019

Work as expected. Thank you so much.

Works great. Like it!

By romanbitca on August 31, 2018

easy. useful. light.

No longer works...but here's a fix:

By Alex Mansfield (alexmansfield) on June 28, 2018

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.

Not Compatible With Latest Version of WP

By clicksimply on May 13, 2018

This plugin doesn't work on the newest versions of WordPress. Hopefully the author updates soon!

Doesn't seem to work anymore

By agsrescue on December 18, 2017

With the addon installed, nothing changed or allowed me to change the name of the author on my multisite.

At Last!

By Rik0399 on November 9, 2017

Drove me crazy what should have been a WP default! So I had to add yet another plugin to fix the issue! Well done to the developer!

Easy and Works!

By God Aliens (godaliens) on September 15, 2017

The plugin is user friendly and works perfectly. Thanks to the developer.

Useful as heck and works great!

By ScottKursk on August 22, 2017

A _MUCH_ needed addition to the functionality of WordPress. Posting multiple authors to our site, the plugin adds some seriously needed time saving functionality to WordPress. Can't speak highly enough of it.

Very useful, missing feature in WordPress

By captainhypertext on June 1, 2017

Very simple, very easy, and definitely a missing feature in WordPress. NOTE: If you don't see the Change Author box when editing a post, make sure to click Screen Options in the top-right corner, and check Author. Then the box should show up.

Works and works well

By Goonerkev on September 3, 2016

EASY, so simple ... love it. Just go to quick edit and the author list is a drop down. Select who you want. Done.

1.0

  • Initial release

1.1

  • Fixed translation
  • Updated tags

1.2

  • Updated to work on pages too (credits to @jondaley)

1.3

  • Updated to support custom post types
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