Title: Additional Authors
Author: EdwardBock
Published: <strong>11 Masg 2017</strong>
Last modified: 21 Dicember 2023

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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.

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# Additional Authors

 By [EdwardBock](https://profiles.wordpress.org/edwardbock/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/additional-authors.1.3.5.zip)

 * [Details](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/additional-authors/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/additional-authors/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/additional-authors/#installation)
 * [Development](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/additional-authors/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/additional-authors/)

## Description

Let’s you add more than one author to your posts.

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## Installation

 1. Upload `additional-authors-wordpress.zip` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Extract the Plugin to a `Additional Authors` Folder
 3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Additional Authors” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ EdwardBock ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/edwardbock/)
 *   [ Palasthotel GmbH ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/palasthotel/)
 *   [ greatestview ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/greatestview/)

“Additional Authors” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/additional-authors/contributors)
for their contributions.

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/additional-authors/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/additional-authors/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/additional-authors/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/additional-authors/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.3.5

 * Fix: PHP 8.2 warnings
 * Fix: double slash in asset urls
 * Packages update

#### 1.3.3

 * Packages update

#### 1.3.2

 * WordPress Core compatibility fix
 * Packages update

#### 1.3.1

 * Update: JS packages update

#### 1.3.0

 * Feature: Show posts count on users table with additional author posts inclusive

#### 1.2.13

 * Bugfix: Post type may be array on change post count hook

#### 1.2.12

 * Optimization: Post table all authors list
 * Bugfix: Delete user crash

#### 1.2.11

 * Optimization: Add admins and editors to additional author dropdown

#### 1.2.10

 * Bugfix: Additional authors script broke reusable block editor

#### 1.2.9

 * Optimization: autocomplete search case insensitive
 * Optimization: click outside hides dropdown

#### 1.2.8

 * Bugfix: Missing migration script

#### 1.2.7

 * WP5.7 checked
 * Bugfix: Database update error

#### 1.2.6

 * Performance: WP_Query performance optimization
 * Update: Dependency updates
 * Bugfix: Cannot delete last additional author from post

#### 1.2.5

 * Bugfix: Gutenberg no POST index fix

#### 1.2.4

 * Optimization: only show additional authors im post type supports author feature
 * Feature: Customizing filter for get_users args in meta box

#### 1.2.3

 * Optimization: Additional authors are included in has_published_posts WP_User_Query
 * Feature: New WP_User_Query argument “ignore_published_as_additional_author” for
   ignoring additional authors with “has_published_posts”

#### 1.2.2

 * Fix: Query manipulation fix which lead to duplicate posts

#### 1.2.1

 * Feature: Link to user profile page

#### 1.2.0

 * Ready for 5.0 and Gutenberg
 * Optimization: With Gutenberg editor only the additional authors will be visible
   in post meta box. The post author was removed and needs to be handle with default
   post edit controls.
 * Info: post_meta _additional_authors is deprecated and will be will not be saved
   anymore
 * Bugfix: Delete user

#### 1.1.5

 * Bugfix: Add empty additional author fix
 * Bugfix: Listen to wordpress author field change

#### 1.1.4

 * BugFix: authors could not be added because of bad timing with onBlur
 * BugFix: keep order of additional authors
 * Feature: All WP_Query will use additional authors not only on authors page
 * Feature: new filter to set the default for ignoring or using additional authors
   with WP_Query
 * Optimization: Query manipulation optimization for author page

#### 1.1.3

 * BugFix: IE11

#### 1.1.2

 * Extendable meta box

#### 1.1.1

 * Added Gutenberg support
 * CSS styles

#### 1.1

 * Author keys move from postmeta to custom table
 * SQL Performance optimization

#### 1.0

 * First release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.3.5**
 *  Last updated **2 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.4.8**
 *  Languages
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/additional-authors/) and [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/additional-authors/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/additional-authors)
 * Tags
 * [author](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/author/)[meta fields](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/meta-fields/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/additional-authors/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ EdwardBock ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/edwardbock/)
 *   [ Palasthotel GmbH ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/palasthotel/)
 *   [ greatestview ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/greatestview/)

## Support

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