Active installations200Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating5.0 / 5 from 2 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org
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WP PlugIndex currently records Overwrite Author Name version 2.1 as active, updated 2y ago and tested up to WordPress 6.6.
Overview
About this plugin
Are you currently giving multiple users the same login details?
‘Overwrite Author Name’ is a plugin to ensure when publishing a post the author name will be replaced. This allows the site to have a consistent/clean authorship and protects individual users from leaving their user-name as author. This is important as users can then login with their own user-name/password using capabilities allocated, however the published content will have a corporate author name against site content.
g. the Subscriber role only). In this way should someone crack the public facing account password, using the user name, they will only gain subscriber access.
supports standard and custom post types.
Plugin site
com/plugins/overwrite-author-name/
GitHub – Development
com/justinticktock/overwrite-author-name
WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
author
enforce
overwrite
publish
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested up to WordPress 6.6
Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 6.6.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to6.6
Minimum requirementsWordPress 3.5 · PHP not listed
Update activity24 Sept 20242y ago
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