Adding guest author without registering him as a user?
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I’m using Yuga theme that comes with Publish Press. I’m using the Business plan. On this new site, we are using guest author posts. I noted that on the full post page the author’s name isn’t listed but uses the default administrator’s username that is linked to this site. On the Recent Posts page, however, where the posts are excerpts, rather than a full post, the correct author is listed with it. It’s only when you click on the post’s title to get the full post, that the default administrator listed as the author. It appears that if I added the guest author as a user to the site, the author’s name would appear on the full post version. We do not want to add this author as an user – he has no desire to add his email address that is required for a WordPress user and he does not use WordPress otherwise. Only the administrator would post his writing. Is there another way around this?
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Hey there! I’d be happy to take a closer look. I wasn’t able to see any author names at all currently, though. Could you share a link to an affected post, and perhaps a screenshot? If we can see the affected post and page, we can likely come up with options.
he has no desire to add his email address that is required for a WordPress user and he does not use WordPress otherwise. Only the administrator would post his writing. Is there another way around this?
I’ll bet we can find a good option on this for you, too! Just so I understand the setup, would he be authoring multiple articles, or will you have multiple guests that need this feature?
For what it’s worth, any additional authors you add to the site will by default get their own author page. I’m the author of a single post on the WordPress.com/blog, for example, so I’ve got this page listing my posts. You could include more info on such a page, too.
Given that, if this one person will be writing a lot of guest posts, having a separate account for him may make sense. If you’ll have a lot of guest authors, simply setting up an account as Guest Author account and adding an extra byline to each article could work. Either way, you could potentially just use an alias of your admin email to set up the extra account. That way the site admin would get any needed notifications (and could turn off the rest.)
I want to add too, you’re welcome to open a chat to discuss this if you don’t want to do it in our forum. Your plan comes with that: https://wordpress.com/help/contact . Or we’d be glad to help here if you prefer async. Cheers!
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Thanks, Supernovia. This is for a different site that is not yet launched. I couldn’t edit the post to fix this error. However, since you encouraged me, I went back to chat to try again. The person with whom I chatted earlier about this issue was not familiar with Publish Press. I’m still waiting to hear back from your staff.
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Accepted answer
I just finished a chat with a rep from your staff and we resolved the issue by using a shortcode from Publish Press to replace the Post Author in the template. The rep didn’t know the plug in that well but was tech savvy enough to figure out a workaround that worked. Your WordPress support has been fantastic to date! Thank you.
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Oh good! Thanks for swinging back here to share the solution. I figured it must be something in the template and I’m glad they were able to spot it. And now that I take a closer look at Publish Press, I can see how fixing the template would sort this out. Looks like its whole purpose is to replace the built-in author functionality, so updating the template to match makes sense.
Your WordPress support has been fantastic to date!
We love to hear it! Thank you, and enjoy the rest of your week!
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