{"id":364,"date":"2020-12-31T18:25:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T17:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/how-to-enable-the-guest-authors-feature\/"},"modified":"2022-01-21T16:04:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T15:04:05","slug":"how-to-enable-the-guest-authors-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/how-to-enable-the-guest-authors-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Enable the Guest Authors Feature?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Guest Authors feature allows you to credit contributors to your site without the need to create a user account for them. It is enabled by default after installing the plugin. However, as most features provided by the plugin, you can disable it if you don&#8217;t need it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To enable the Guest Authors feature, just follow the steps below. It is really easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Log in to your WordPress Dashboard<\/li><li>Go to the plugin settings page at: <strong>Molongui<\/strong> > <strong>Authorship Settings<\/strong><\/li><li>On the <strong>Features<\/strong> panel, look for the <strong>Enable guest posting to be able to add non-registered users as post author<\/strong> option and switch it on<\/li><li><strong>Save Settings<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/how-to-enable-guest-authors-feature-in-the-molongui-authorship-plugin.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7289\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s it! You should now see a new menu item labeled <strong>Guest Authors<\/strong> in your main WordPress menu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/guest_authors_menu_item.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7290\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>You can configure where to display the <strong>Guest Authors<\/strong> menu, so it might be located as a sub-item for the Posts, Pages or Users menu item. Look there if you don&#8217;t see it as a top level menu item.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guest Authors feature allows you to credit contributors to your site without the need to create a user account for them. It is enabled by default after installing the plugin. However, as most features provided by the plugin, you can disable it if you don&#8217;t need it. To enable the Guest Authors feature, just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1],"tags":[32,12],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authorship","category-doc","tag-guest-authors","tag-howto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}