內容簡介
Custom Guest Authors 外掛讓您可以將 WordPress 文章的作者名稱替換為一個或多個自訂的來賓作者名稱，無需額外的 WordPress 使用者帳號。適合發佈外部貢獻者、翻譯者或合作作者內容的網站。
【主要功能】
• 替換文章作者名稱為自訂來賓作者名稱
• 支援多位作者名稱顯示，名稱以逗號分隔
• 文章類型支援，包括文章、頁面及自訂文章類型
• 顯示控制，可選擇在所有視圖或單篇文章中應用
• 結構化資料支援，兼容 Yoast SEO 和 Rank Math
• 設定選項多樣，包含快取管理與顯示樣式
外掛標籤
開發者團隊
原文外掛簡介
The Custom Guest Authors plugin (developed and maintained by Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi) lets you replace the WordPress post author display name with one or more custom guest author names, stored as post meta. No separate WordPress user accounts are required. Ideal for sites that publish content from external contributors, translators, or collaborative authors.
Guest author names are set directly from the post editor via a dedicated sidebar panel — available in both the classic editor and the Gutenberg block editor. The raw guest-author custom field key also works for programmatic or WP-CLI workflows.
This plugin was inspired by a tutorial from WPBeginner.
Features
Author name override
Replaces the WordPress post author name with a custom guest author name on the front end.
Supports multiple authors — enter names separated by commas (e.g. John Doe, Jane Smith).
Three join styles for multi-author display: Natural (A, B and C), Comma (A, B, C), Ampersand (A & B & C).
Optional site-wide fallback name shown on posts with no per-post guest author set.
Works with both classic themes (via the_author filter) and block/FSE themes (via get_the_author_display_name filter).
Post type support
Applies to any combination of public post types — Posts, Pages, and any registered custom post type.
Post type selection is configurable from the General tab in Settings.
Display control
Apply the override everywhere (singles, archives, feeds) or restrict it to single post views only.
Author archive links are automatically suppressed when a guest author is active — guest authors are not WordPress users and have no author archive.
Structured data
Optional suppression of the author property from JSON-LD schema output.
Compatible with Yoast SEO (wpseo_schema_graph filter) and Rank Math (rank_math/schema/article filter).
Performance
Author name lookups are cached per post using WordPress transients (default lifetime: 12 hours, configurable from 1 to 168 hours).
Cache is invalidated immediately on post save, and on any direct post meta add, update, or delete — including REST API and WP-CLI writes.
Cache is automatically flushed on plugin update to clear stale entries from older installs.
Settings
Settings are available at Settings › Guest Authors, organised across four tabs:
General — fallback guest author name, active post types.
Display — multi-author join style, show override on singular or all views, live preview.
Advanced — cache lifetime, JSON-LD schema suppression toggle.
Debug — live diagnostics panel, system information, cache status, and a manual post-ID tester.
Translation
Bundled Malay (Malaysia) translation (ms_MY).
All strings are internationalised and ready for translation via a .pot template file.
