Title: Change Author Author: Martin Teley Published: 1, Mayu de 2014 Last modified: 12, Xunetu de 2017 --- Guetar plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://ps.w.org/change-author/assets/icon-128x128.png?rev=981625) # Change Author By [Martin Teley](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mrxthefifth/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/change-author.zip) * [Details](https://ast.wordpress.org/plugins/change-author/#description) * [Reviews](https://ast.wordpress.org/plugins/change-author/#reviews) * [Installation](https://ast.wordpress.org/plugins/change-author/#installation) * [Development](https://ast.wordpress.org/plugins/change-author/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/change-author/) ## 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! ## Installation #### 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 ## FAQ 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. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2071c51bb0230a2168e6b6215b544012711cbe97339975384ca2020cc6872621? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Just awesome](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/just-awesome-205/)󠁿 [vnkjoshi](https://profiles.wordpress.org/vnkjoshi/) 3, Xineru de 2019 Work as expected. Thank you so much. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c91bd23ac6625ab29328b0d098875858d39431fadf2c7cc77025291e6ae67adc? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Works great. Like it!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-great-like-it/)󠁿 [romanbitca](https://profiles.wordpress.org/romanbitca/) 31, Agostu de 2018 easy. useful. light. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/aa7e8ed225d140b1d8a2b6c8393a757e836851f8c2de992f9f9a3618254acf9f? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[No longer works…but here’s a fix:](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-longer-works-but-heres-a-fix/)󠁿 [Alex Mansfield](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexmansfield/) 28, Xunu de 2018 2 replies 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. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d59ea39e1386a8a849740683c72750aac37735241c8f159cd753810c91b9f404? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Not Compatible With Latest Version of WP](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-compatible-with-latest-version-of-wp-2/)󠁿 [clicksimply](https://profiles.wordpress.org/clicksimply/) 13, Mayu de 2018 This plugin doesn’t work on the newest versions of Wordpress. Hopefully the author updates soon! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/205f0c1c48266f54958c8e18188ad9987aa029dcbcbb20d54e8afedb8c6ddaa0? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Doesn’t seem to work anymore](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-seem-to-work-anymore-6/)󠁿 [agsrescue](https://profiles.wordpress.org/agsrescue/) 18, Avientu de 2017 With the addon installed, nothing changed or allowed me to change the name of the author on my multisite. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ccb4344e32f2762120900f7eb023b4d730a2aa53890f3b95967ad896fba5575c? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[At Last!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/at-last-33/)󠁿 [Rik0399](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rik0399/) 9, Payares de 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! [ Read all 11 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/change-author/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Change Author” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Martin Teley ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mrxthefifth/) [Translate “Change Author” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/change-author) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/change-author/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/change-author/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/change-author/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/change-author/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 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 ## Meta * Version **1.3** * Last updated **8 años ago** * Active installations **1.000+** * WordPress version ** 3.0.1 or higher ** * Tested up to **4.8.28** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/change-author/) * Tags * [author](https://ast.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/author/)[custom author](https://ast.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/custom-author/) [custom post author](https://ast.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/custom-post-author/) [user](https://ast.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/user/) * [Advanced View](https://ast.wordpress.org/plugins/change-author/advanced/) ## Ratings 4 out of 5 stars. * [ 9 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/change-author/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/change-author/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/change-author/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/change-author/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 3 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/change-author/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/change-author/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/change-author/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Martin Teley ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mrxthefifth/) ## Support Got something to say? 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