Client asks “can I list multiple authors on an article in our CMS?” After a quick search and a little playing around I could give my standard WordPress answer “it turns out there is a plug-in for that!” The Co-Authors Plus plug-in nicely met our needs. We list both the author’s display name and the Biographical Description in the author tag line with the meta information at the head of the post. And based on the suggestions in the plug-in’s readme.txt file I created the following function to generate the display:
The function checks to make sure the plug-in exists, and if not reverts to the standard WordPress author functions. You can see what it looks like here. Nice when things work! Thanks to Mohammad Jangda for a great plug-in.
WordPress › Co-Authors Plus « WordPress Plugins
Allows multiple authors to be assigned to a Post or Page via the search-as-you-type inputs. Co-authored posts appear on a co-author’s posts page and feed. New template tags allow listing of co-authors. Editors and Administrators may assign co-authors to a post. Additionally, 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 usual).
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claudia snell added these pithy words on Jan 14 10 at 6:17 amGreat tip, Randy! I’m sure this will come in handy. Thank you.
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