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WP PlugIndex currently records Guest User version 2.0.0 as active, updated 5d ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Overview
About this plugin
Guest authors, former staff or contributors who only send in their texts need a user account to appear as the author of a post – but they do not need to be able to sign in.
Guest User adds a checkbox “Is guest” to the user edit screen and to the “Add New User” screen. An account marked as guest
cannot sign in with its password, neither at the login form nor through XML-RPC,
is signed out of every session it still had open when it was marked,
cannot use application passwords or any other way of authenticating against the REST API.
The account itself, its posts and its author archive stay as they are. Uncheck the box and the account can sign in again.
Developers can check an account with guest_user_is_guest( $user_id ).
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
author
guest
login
security
user
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested with WP 7.1
Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.0 · PHP 8.0
Update activity28 Oct 20265d ago
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Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex
Recent tracked changes
Version1.0.1→2.0.0
WordPress compatibility7.1.2→7.1.4
PHP requirement7.4→8.0
Version1.0.0→1.0.1
WordPress compatibility5.9.16→7.1.2
Tracking & source
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