Co-Authors Plus: Breakdown
Co-Authors Plus is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to assign multiple authors to a post or page. Once the plugin is installed, you simply select the authors you would like to collaborate on a post or page and assign them as co-authors. The plugin creates a new "Co-Authors" box on the post or page, where the authors are listed and can be changed at any time. Co-Authors Plus allows you to customize the names of each author as they appear in the byline, as well as set different display styles for the authors.
The plugin also makes it easy to assign authors to posts or pages. You can search the co-authors by name, username, or email, making it quick and painless to add authors to posts and pages. Additionally, Co-Authors Plus also provides a feature called Author order, which allows you to set the order in which the authors appear.
Co-Authors Plus also enables versatile control over the authors on a post or page. You can assign permissions to limit which authors can view and edit posts, as well as restrict the number of authors per post. You can also delete authors, add tags to the authors, and delete authors from a post or page.
The plugin also features a template tag replacement called coauthors_posts_links that you can use in WordPress themes for displaying the authors of a post or page. This template tag allows you to add the authors' names to the bylines of posts or pages, as well as add custom formatting to the links.