Title: Guest Author
Author: WebFactory
Published: <strong>14 Marzo 2018</strong>
Last modified: 3 Dicembre 2025

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![](https://ps.w.org/guest-author/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=2301810)

# Guest Author

 Di [WebFactory](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webfactory/)

[Scarica](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/guest-author.2.61.zip)

 * [Dettagli](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/guest-author/#description)
 * [Recensioni](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/guest-author/#reviews)
 * [Sviluppo](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/guest-author/#developers)

 [Supporto](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/guest-author/)

## Descrizione

Add a guest author to any post without needing to register the guest author as a
user on your site.

### Features

 * ✍️ Behaves as if guest authors were regular authors.
 * 👤 Upload your own avatar image instead of using Gravatar.
 * 🌍 Link to a custom page for the guest author.
 * 🔥 Perfect for guest posts.

Looking for nicer author boxes with more options? Check out our [free Simple Author Box](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-author-box/)
plugin.

## Screenshot

 * [[
 * Gives you the ability to switch between registered user author and guest author.

## FAQ

### How to disable this plugin?

Just use standard Plugin overview page in WordPress admin section and deactivate
it or rename plugin folder /wp-content/plugins/guest-author over FTP access.

### Will it slow my site down?

No, it won’t. It’s only loaded on the pages it protects.

### How can I report security bugs?

You can report security bugs through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program.
The Patchstack team help validate, triage and handle any security vulnerabilities.
[Report a security vulnerability.](https://patchstack.com/database/vdp/guest-author)

## Recensioni

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c991016c01b61fc526373d0e969c8485560730bca47f573c9a61a79353196b26?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[What they call support is rather weird](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-they-call-support-is-rather-weird/)󠁿

 [Hanno](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bsoftde/) 28 Febbraio 2025

There was another comment that I’m simply repeating here because it describes my
situation exactly – after three years, nothing has changed:”They don’t test their
plugin with the best/highest selling premium themes, so they have zero clue if their
plugin will work with those themes or not. They just blindly hope that their plugin
works and if it doesn’t, it’s the Theme’s fault only.”

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/30338ed2c66f04b51aec77d95787bdd0d326ff0d5fb170ade502f7b743830244?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Feature request: nofollow the guest author URL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-nofollow-the-guest-author-url/)󠁿

 [Nima Shayanfar](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nshayanfar/) 5 Novembre 2024 1 
risposta

The plugin works as advertised and is quite simple and handy. I have one request
though. These days nofollowing the URL might be suitable for some admins. So it 
is missing.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/419124bb1bdf4bb4d63c936463d097d27d70d96d7e5adfaeb03c79975eab18bf?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Personal URL not working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/personal-url-not-working/)󠁿

 [Jin-Liang, Lin](https://profiles.wordpress.org/vedfolnir/) 30 Dicembre 2022

My site use the themes “Twenty Twenty-Two”. Custom URLs will not appear on the name.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9f9afe7a6d6b17483f16a49b2a1fc102b577c1e87bf391fb47fe6e8ca4af8ed0?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Close to perfection](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/exactly-what-i-need-159/)󠁿

 [gunawan004](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gunawan004/) 7 Dicembre 2022

Its good, but didnt save the guest data so i have to write the same data over and
over again

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8fb544069dc69c8c7903aec91398a5d8196a737c045953730a1f7ca8a74fc173?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Support only Free themes](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/support-only-free-themes/)󠁿

 [dhirajshah](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dhirajshah/) 29 Agosto 2022

They don’t test their plugin with the best/higest selling premium themes, so they
have zero clue if their plugin with work with those themes or not. They just blindly
hope that their plugin works and if it doesn’t, it’s the Theme’s fault only.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/fd36964f59e6314d3def8a4d81fb41c695150b6203b628e915d5b78b942fafaf?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Works as described](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-as-described-320/)󠁿

 [inspired888](https://profiles.wordpress.org/inspired888/) 5 Luglio 2022 1 risposta

I am mostly writing this review to counter what was written here: crudoadmin — March
5, 2021 — Its a piece of junk In my experience, the URL, Description and Avatar 
boxes are only greyed out if you haven’t yet added an Author Name. If that first
field (Name) is empty, then the other fields are disabled. This is to prevent people
adding data to those other fields without providing an author name. Makes perfect
sense to me. I suspect “crudoadmin” might not have taken the time to really test
out what was going on. As for the plug-in itself … works well. Out theme was even
able to pull in the image, URL, and description (in the same way it pulls in the
image, URL, and Bio from a registered user/author). Which means this plug-in is 
storing that info in standard Wordpress fields, as opposed to making something up(
which was the case with the Simply Guest Author plug-in, which we had to ditch for
that very reason).

 [ Leggi tutte le recensioni di 14 ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/guest-author/reviews/)

## Contributi e sviluppo

“Guest Author” è un software open source. Le persone che hanno contribuito allo 
sviluppo di questo plugin sono indicate di seguito.

Collaboratori

 *   [ WebFactory ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webfactory/)

“Guest Author” è stato tradotto in 7 lingue. Grazie a [chi traduce](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/guest-author/contributors)
per il contributo.

[Traduci “Guest Author” nella tua lingua.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/guest-author)

### Ti interessa lo sviluppo?

[Esplora il codice](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/guest-author/) segui
il [repository SVN](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/guest-author/), segui il [log delle modifiche](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/guest-author/)
tramite [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/guest-author/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.61

 * 2025-09-18
 * minor code fix

#### 2.6

 * 2025-08-11
 * minor code fixes

#### 2.5

 * 2023-12-05
 * Guest author name bug fix

#### 2.4

 * 2023-11-29
 * security fix

#### 2.3

 * 2022-11-22
 * minor fixes

#### 2.2

 * 2020-05-09
 * minor fixes

#### 2.1.8

 * Bug fixes

#### 2.1.5

 * Makes author links optional. You can just leave the link blank.
 * Bug fixes

#### 2.1.3

 * Bug fixes

#### 2.1.2

 * Fixes a bug where the plugin doesn’t work with ajax requests

#### 2.1

 * Fixes an issue with author avatar displaying for user comments
 * Now uses theme defaults for avatar styles

#### 2.0

 * Adds support to Gutenberg. Finally 🎉

#### 1.9.1

 * Adds support to Elementor’s Author Box Widget

## Meta

 *  Versione **2.61**
 *  Ultimo aggiornamento **4 mesi fa**
 *  Installazioni attive **5.000+**
 *  Versione WordPress ** 4.6 o superiore **
 *  Testato fino alla versione **6.9.4**
 *  Versione PHP ** 5.2.4 o superiore **
 *  Lingue
 * [Arabic](https://ar.wordpress.org/plugins/guest-author/), [Chinese (Taiwan)](https://tw.wordpress.org/plugins/guest-author/),
   [Dutch](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/guest-author/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/guest-author/),
   [German](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/guest-author/), [Portuguese (Portugal)](https://pt.wordpress.org/plugins/guest-author/),
   [Russian](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/guest-author/), e [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/guest-author/).
 *  [Traduci nella tua lingua](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/guest-author)
 * Tag
 * [author](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/author/)[guest](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/guest/)
   [guest author](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/guest-author/)[guest post](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/guest-post/)
   [post author](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post-author/)
 *  [Visualizzazione avanzata](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/guest-author/advanced/)

## Valutazioni

 4.2 su 5 stelle.

 *  [  10 recensioni a 5-stelle     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/guest-author/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  1 4- recensioni a stelle     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/guest-author/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  1 3- recensioni a stelle     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/guest-author/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 recensioni a 2-stelle     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/guest-author/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  2 recensioni a 1-stelle     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/guest-author/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/guest-author/reviews/#new-post)

[Vedi tutte le recensioni](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/guest-author/reviews/)

## Collaboratori

 *   [ WebFactory ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webfactory/)

## Supporto

Hai qualcosa da dire? Ti serve aiuto?

 [Chiedi nel forum di supporto](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/guest-author/)