Co-Authors Plus

Co-Authors Plus

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Assign multiple bylines to posts, pages, and custom post types via a search-as-you-type input box. Co-authored posts appear on a co-author’s archive page and in their feed. Co-authors may edit the posts they are associated with, and co-authors who are contributors may only edit posts if they have not been published (as is core behavior).

Add writers as bylines without creating WordPress user accounts. Simply create a guest author profile for the writer and assign the byline as you normally would.

On the frontend, use the Co-Authors Plus template tags to list co-authors anywhere you’d normally list the author.

For more detailed documentation refer to the GitHub Wiki for this plugin.

Co-Authors Plus is an almost complete rewrite of the Co-Authors plugin originally developed by Weston Ruter (2007). The original plugin was inspired by the ‘Multiple Authors‘ plugin by Mark Jaquith (2005).

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Plugin code:
co-authors-plus
Plugin version:
3.7.0
Author:
Outdated:
No
WP version:
5.9 or higher
PHP version:
7.4 or higher
Test up to WP version:
6.8.3
Total installations:
20,000
Last updated:
2025-10-20
Rating:
Times rated:
77
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