Automattic/co-authors-plus

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Multiple bylines and Guest Authors for WordPress

Stars: 322
Forks: 218
Open beginner issues: 1
Indexed issues: 145
Avg merge: 3h 34m
Merged PRs (30d): 64

Dominant language: PHP
License: GPL-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 8, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 14, 2026
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145 open issues indexed

WooCommerce customer users cannot have co-author archives? Open

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1452 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Tell site owners when posts are missing author terms Open

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1444 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 11, 2026
Decide create()'s sanitisation contract for external callers Open

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1435 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 7, 2026
REST author formatting writes terms on every read Open

Co-authors Plus

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1434 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Audit of the WP-CLI commands: consolidation plan and a proposed fresh command surface Open

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1417 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 5, 2026
Guest authors cannot be found via author / author__in ID queries Open

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1377 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 2, 2026
add_coauthors() silently drops a co-author it cannot resolve Open

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1369 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Yoast integration: filter_graph() can emit @graph as a JSON object instead of an array (array_filter without array_values) Open

Co-authors Plus

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1360 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 1, 2026
`coauthors_auto_apply_template_tags` changes attribution name, but link points to old author Open

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1351 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 13, 2026
New user doesn't appear in the author search until the object cache is cleared (multisite) Open

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1314 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 23, 2026
Cache hardening: extract a cache layer, close invalidation gaps, and reduce uncached hot paths Open

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1313 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 23, 2026
Author archive template pulls incorrect info with Co-Author Plus active Open

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1263 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened May 1, 2026
Harden filter_count_user_posts in class-coauthor-plus.php Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1215 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 18, 2026
Incorrect author (whoever the poster is) shows up as author for 10 minutes + , then finally corrects to the chosen author Open

status: needs investigation type: bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1150 · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 5, 2025
Translation bug versions 3.6.5, 3.6.6 and 3.7.0 Open

status: awaiting reporter feedback

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1149 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 24, 2025
Co-authors archive pages don't show posts where they are also an author. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1134 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 20, 2025
Compatibility with Index WP Users for Speed Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1132 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 29, 2025
Declaring Support for Interactivity API Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1129 · Opened Jul 11, 2025
Link to guest author's posts not created automatically Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1128 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 5, 2025
Attempt to read property “display_name” on fals Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1126 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 26, 2025
Warnings when using the filter ‘coauthors_supported_post_types’ to restrict the plugin functionalities to a unique custom post type Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1113 · 2 comments · Opened May 8, 2025
Deleting a WP user without without a CAP term is throwing a fatal Open

priority: medium status: needs investigation type: bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1096 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 7, 2025
AJAX conflict with wp job manager plugin Open

priority: low status: needs investigation type: bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1095 · Opened Feb 4, 2025
guest authors have empty profile pages with 0 posts (even though they have some) Open

priority: low status: awaiting reporter feedback type: bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1091 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 27, 2025
Bug creates a lot of duplicate fields when entering Quick Edit content Open

priority: low status: needs investigation type: bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1088 · Opened Dec 13, 2024
Return only administrators Open

priority: low status: awaiting reporter feedback type: question

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1087 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 6, 2024
I need an export. Where is the co-author saved and how? Open

priority: low status: awaiting reporter feedback type: question

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1086 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 5, 2024
search_authors() function doesn't return all results, if there are more than 10 results Open

priority: medium status: needs investigation type: bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1057 · Opened Sep 6, 2024
Cannot find a way to query for all posts where a specific user is a (co)author Open

priority: low status: needs investigation type: question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1056 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 13, 2024
Override "Co-Authors" blocks to only render primary author Open

priority: low status: needs investigation type: question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1051 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 2, 2024
get_to_be_filtered_caps not checking for $obj Open

priority: medium status: needs investigation type: bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1047 · 1 comment · Opened May 18, 2024
Option to migrate without wp-cli Open

priority: low status: needs investigation type: enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1044 · 1 reaction · Opened May 7, 2024
String added to author archive page title Open

priority: medium status: needs investigation type: bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1043 · Opened May 7, 2024
Co-authors not allowed to save updated posts Open

priority: medium status: needs investigation type: bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1041 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 26, 2024
Co-authors can't delete/trash posts Open

priority: medium status: needs investigation type: bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1029 · Opened Mar 21, 2024
Does co-authors plus fire its own HTTP request to store coauthors? Open

priority: medium status: needs investigation type: bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1024 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 18, 2024
`jetpack_open_graph_tags` hook function in Co-Authors Plus causes fatal error in Jetpack Social Open

priority: medium status: needs investigation type: bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1023 · Opened Feb 15, 2024
Update Co-Author Avatar block for feature parity with Author Avatar block Open

priority: medium status: needs review type: bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1022 · Opened Feb 12, 2024
Consider adding hookable action on guest author removal Open

priority: low status: needs investigation type: enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1021 · Opened Feb 2, 2024
Question: Where are guest author display names stored? Open

priority: low status: needs investigation type: question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1020 · Opened Jan 19, 2024
display name field not saving for guest author Open

priority: low status: needs investigation type: bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1017 · Opened Dec 12, 2023
Warning in server log: Attempt to read property "user_nicename" on bool Open

priority: medium status: needs investigation type: bug

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 48/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1014 · 2 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Nov 2, 2023
Default author for block editor Open

priority: low status: needs investigation type: enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1011 · Opened Oct 9, 2023
Co-Author field via the API Open

priority: low status: needs testing type: enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1010 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 9, 2023
Add author(s) to Rank SEO XML sitemap Open

priority: low status: needs investigation type: enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#1004 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 20, 2023
Post Author block shows avatar from Guest Author not User Open

priority: medium status: needs investigation type: bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#962 · Opened Jul 29, 2023
Tracking issue for further block editor and full site editing support Open

priority: medium Status: has patch type: enhancement

Automattic/co-authors-plus#940 · 25 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 30, 2023
Issue with apostrophes in names Open

priority: medium Status: has patch type: bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#937 · Opened Jun 15, 2023
Co-authors appear in alphabetical order Open

priority: medium status: awaiting reporter feedback type: bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#936 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 22, 2023
Authors not being updated in the editor / redux store Open

priority: low status: needs investigation type: bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Automattic/co-authors-plus#934 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 12, 2023

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