Comments on: Multiple authors per post in Wordpress

By: Dennis Wurster

Dennis Wurster — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:20:49 +0000

I need to add this functionality for a new WP site, and while the plugin does work, it shoves the subsequent authors into fields called ‘other_author’. This is great, until you want to do a search to see what those other_author’s have written. Doing so presents an empty set.

Clearly, the solution would be to create a lookup table that contains post-IDs and author-IDs, but the problem is trying to assign multiple authors to a post. What you /want/ is to tick a checkbox next to the name in a list of authors, not to have to type it in manually.

Are there *any* CMSes out there that support multiple authors per post, out-of-the-box?

By: Jaap

Jaap — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:45:36 +0000

Is the plugin still available? txfx.net/ appears to be down…

By: Scot Hacker

Scot Hacker — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:08:17 +0000

Is it possible to only comment out the two add_action lines at the bottom to accomplish this, without needing to mess with the function?

Bart, that in fact exactly what the plugin author recommends as the best way to handle this on his own site – just comment out the last two lines – no need to mess with anything else in the function.

By: Bart

Bart — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:54:38 +0000

Is it possible to only comment out the two add_action lines at the bottom to accomplish this, without needing to mess with the function?

You should check this post in Firefox. Only the first two lines of the function are formatted as code, the other lines look like the rest of your post (because you have a closing P tag before your closing tag).