About this plugin
M7tawa Editorial Credits is a focused content-credit system for WordPress. It is built for sites that need to show who contributed to a piece of content and what each person actually did.
Unlike a traditional multi-author plugin, the plugin treats editorial credits as structured content roles. A single article can credit a writer, reviewer, translator, photographer, fact-checker, editor, researcher, or any custom role you create.
What makes it different?
- Content Credits first: credits are not limited to co-authors.
- Flexible roles: create and customize writing, review, translation, photography, research, technical review, and other roles.
- Reusable Credit Profiles: create contributor profiles without creating WordPress users or login accounts.
- Persistent contributor photos: upload a profile image once and reuse it across every credited article until an administrator changes it.
- Search-friendly HTML: the visible credit box is rendered server-side as part of the article HTML, not injected through an iframe or a remote service.
- Structured data support: map credit types to author, editor, or contributor relationships.
- SEO plugin compatibility: extend supported Yoast SEO and Rank Math Article schema through public filters instead of outputting a second full Article entity.
- Classic and Block Editor support: credits are assigned through the standard WordPress post meta box interface.
- WordPress user credits: assign an existing site user directly without creating a duplicate Credit Profile.
- Optional custom credit data for WordPress users: use an Editorial Credits-specific display name, image, bio, and Contributor page without changing the WordPress account itself.
- Per-article ordering: drag credits or move them up and down to control front-end priority.
- Preview-aware autosaves: the article preview can use the latest autosaved credit assignments before the post is manually saved.
- Lightweight and local: no external account, telemetry, remote database, or third-party service is required.
Included credit types
The first release includes ready-to-use roles such as Written by, Co-written by, Edited by, Reviewed by, Fact-checked by, Translated by, Photographed by, Illustrated by, Designed by, Research by, and Technical review by. Administrators can add their own credit types.
Credit Profiles
Credit Profiles are reusable contributor records stored inside WordPress. They do not create WordPress users and cannot log in to the site. Each profile can contain a name, photo, short bio, profile or website URL, social links, and a default credit role.
Front-end display
The plugin can display Editorial Credits before or after the article automatically, or only where the [m7tawa_editorial_credits] shortcode is placed.
The output uses semantic HTML and remains readable in the page source for search engines, accessibility tools, and systems that process article content.