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Custom Guest Authors

Name: Custom Guest Authors
Author: Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi

Replace the default WordPress post author with custom guest author names via a custom field. Supports multiple comma-separated authors.

Custom Guest Authors ranks #31,572 among WordPress.org plugins with 10+ active installations, a 1/5 rating from 0 reviews, and was last updated Mar 10, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.9 (Current: 7.1.1)

v2.3.1 Current Version v2.3.1

Updated 6 months ago Last Update on 10 Mar, 2026

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Version: 2.3.1
Last Updated: Mar 10, 2026
Requires WP: 5.7+
Tested Up To: 6.9
PHP Version: 8.2 or higher
Author: Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi

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Common questions about Custom Guest Authors

By default, the override applies to Posts only. To enable it for Pages or any registered custom post type, go to Settings › Guest Authors › General and check the post types you want. All public post types registered on your site are listed.

Edit any post of an enabled type. A Guest Authors panel appears in the right-hand sidebar — in the Document panel for the block editor, or as a meta box in the classic editor. Enter one or more names separated by commas and save the post.

Enter names separated by commas in the Guest Authors field, e.g. Zamri Vinoth, Firdaus Wong, Ali Hassan. The display format is controlled by the Join Style setting on the Display tab: Natural (Zamri Vinoth, Firdaus Wong and Ali Hassan), Comma (Zamri Vinoth, Firdaus Wong, Ali Hassan), or Ampersand (Zamri Vinoth & Firdaus Wong & Ali Hassan).

Yes. Go to Settings › Guest Authors › General and enter a name in the Fallback Guest Author Name field. This name is shown on any post of an enabled type that has no per-post guest author set. Leave it blank to fall back to the WordPress post author on those posts.

Yes. The plugin hooks both the_author (used by classic themes) and get_the_author_display_name (the dynamic filter used by block themes via get_the_author_meta( 'display_name' )). This covers all Twenty Twenty-One through Twenty Twenty-Five themes and all FSE themes that use the core/post-author or core/post-author-name blocks.

Yes, provided the page builder reads the author via the_author(), get_the_author(), or get_the_author_meta( 'display_name' ). This covers Elementor, Beaver Builder, Divi, WPBakery, Kadence, Astra, and GeneratePress, among others.

Yes. The meta key is guest-author. You can set it via the raw Custom Fields panel (if enabled), programmatically with update_post_meta(), or via WP-CLI. The editor panel is a convenience wrapper over the same key.

By default, yes — the override applies everywhere the author name is displayed. To restrict it to single post pages only, go to Settings › Guest Authors › Display and set Show Override On to Single posts only.

When a guest author is active on a post, the author archive URL is automatically suppressed. Guest authors are not WordPress users and have no author archive. The author name is displayed as plain unlinked text.

Not by default. If you want to remove the author property from JSON-LD schema output, enable the Suppress author from JSON-LD schema toggle on the Advanced tab. This works with both Yoast SEO and Rank Math.

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