About this plugin
Leenkat Author Autocomplete provides a searchable author autocomplete interface for both the WordPress Classic Editor and Block Editor (Gutenberg).
It is designed for editorial websites and other WordPress installations with many authors, editors, or eligible content users, where finding a specific author in the standard author interface can be inconvenient.
The plugin keeps WordPress’s native post author workflow for registered users and adds an optional guest-author layer for credited writers who do not need a WordPress account.
Features
- Search eligible authors by display name.
- Search by WordPress username.
- Search by e-mail address.
- Search using partial names.
- Display the author’s avatar.
- Display username, e-mail address, and user role in search results.
- Show a loading indicator while searching.
- Show an immediate no-results notice when a search returns no matches.
- Validate manually entered full display names, usernames, and e-mail addresses.
- Restore the previously selected author when an unfinished or invalid search is cancelled.
- Support post types that use WordPress author functionality.
- Respect WordPress user capabilities for the current post type.
- Use the native WordPress post author field when saving.
- Support the Classic Editor.
- Support the Block Editor (Gutenberg).
- Translation-ready and RTL-compatible.
- Create and manage guest authors without WordPress user accounts.
- Add a guest author directly while editing content and save the new guest author only when the post is saved.
- Assign male or female default guest-author avatars.
- Display guest-author names and avatars on the front end without linking to the underlying WordPress user.
- Keep the native WordPress post author as the editor while crediting a separate guest author.
- Show separate Editor and Author columns in the Posts screen.
- View the number of articles linked to each guest author.
- Convert a guest author to a WordPress user and transfer linked articles safely.
- No external services required.
Registered authors continue to use the native WordPress post author field. Guest authors are stored separately and can be credited on posts without creating a WordPress user account.
Source Code
All JavaScript and CSS files distributed with this plugin are the human-readable source files used by the plugin. No minification, compilation, bundling, or build step is required to regenerate the distributed assets.