Creating and editing guest authors

Guest authors can be created and managed under “Users” -> “Guest Authors”.

Guest authors can be aded as bylines without creating WordPress user accounts for them. Each guest author can have many of same fields a normal WordPress user would typically have, including display name, email address, and website. You can assign a featured image in order to override the avatar typically associated with the email address.

Once you’ve created your guest author, their byline can be assigned to a post using the normal Co-Authors Plus interface.

Permissions

To create new guest author profiles, a WordPress user must have the list_users capability. This is typically granted to the Administrator role, but can be altered with the coauthors_guest_author_manage_cap filter.

To assign co-authors to posts, a WordPress user must have the edit_others_posts capability. This is typically granted to the Editor role, but can be altered with the coauthors_plus_edit_authors filter.

What happens to posts and pages when I delete a user assigned to a post or page as a coauthor?

When a user is deleted from WordPress, they will be removed from all posts for which they are co-authors. If you chose to reassign their posts to another user, that user will be set as the coauthor instead.