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Molongui Post Contributors: Multi-Role Contributor Attribution

Molongui Post Contributors: Multi-Role Contributor Attribution

By Molongui
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Description

Unlock the power of teamwork on your WordPress site with Molongui Post Contributors. This intuitive plugin lets you effortlessly add and showcase every member of your content team, allowing specific role attribution for reviewers, fact-checkers, photographers, and more. By enhancing collaborative content creation and recognition, Molongui Post Contributors enriches your posts with clear, visible credits. It’s ideal for blogs, news sites, magazines, and educational platforms, boosting collaboration and giving credit where it’s due. Elevate your content game, engage your audience, and celebrate teamwork like never before. Install now to acknowledge every contribution and take your articles to the next level!

Main Features

  • Role Attribution: Assign specific roles to each contributor (e.g., reviewer, fact-checker, photographer)
  • Easy Integration: Seamlessly integrates with your WordPress theme
  • Customizable Displays: Customize how contributor names and roles are displayed on posts
  • Automated Credits: Automatically generate and insert contributor credits
  • SEO Friendly: Enhances SEO with structured data for contributors
  • Responsive Design: Ensures post byline looks great on all devices
  • Shortcode Support: Use shortcodes to display post byline anywhere on your site
  • Compatibility: Works with all major WordPress page builders

Premium Features

✨ Premium features only available in Molongui Post Contributors Pro

  • Multiple Contributors: Add multiple contributors to a single post
  • Guest Contributors: Add contributors without a user account (no WP users)
  • Additional Layouts: Premium designs for your post byline and posts
  • Avatars display
  • Custom Post Type Support
  • Custom User Role Support

This plugin uses a third-party service to enable live chat communication with our support team, exclusively for administrators in the backend. You can disable this service via the plugin settings page. For more information about the live chat service provider review their privacy policy and terms.

Screenshots

Post byline showing the name of the reviewer below the post author
Post byline showing the name of the reviewer below the post author
Post byline showing the name of the reviewer towards the post author
Post byline showing the name of the reviewer towards the post author
Post byline showing additional post information towards the post author
Post byline showing additional post information towards the post author
Post byline showing additional post information below the post author
Post byline showing additional post information below the post author
[PRO only] Post byline showing avatars for both author and reviewer
[PRO only] Post byline showing avatars for both author and reviewer
Post byline showing post information in multiple lines
Post byline showing post information in multiple lines
[PRO only] Post byline showing multiple contributors with avatars, highlighted roles and check icon
[PRO only] Post byline showing multiple contributors with avatars, highlighted roles and check icon
[PRO only] Post byline showing additional user information, avatars, highlighted roles and check icon
[PRO only] Post byline showing additional user information, avatars, highlighted roles and check icon
The block for the WP Block Editor
The block for the WP Block Editor
The widget for Elementor
The widget for Elementor

Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

  • Post byline

Installation

Automatic Plugin Installation

To install this plugin using the built-in plugin installer:

  1. Go to: Plugins > Add New.
  2. Type in Molongui Post Contributors in the search box.
  3. Click on Install Now to install the plugin.
  4. The resulting installation screen will list the installation as successful or note any problems during the install.
  5. If successful, click on the Activate Plugin button to activate the plugin, or Return to Plugin Installer for further actions.

Manual Plugin Installation

To install the plugin manually:

  1. Download the plugin to your computer.
  2. Extract the plugin folder to your desktop.
  3. With your FTP program, upload the extracted plugin folder to the wp-content/plugins folder in your WordPress directory.
  4. Go to Plugins screen and find the newly uploaded plugin in the list.
  5. Click Activate to activate it.

If you need further assistance, please, read the “Installing Plugins” article on the WordPress Codex or write us an email so we can assist you.

Requirements

In order to run, Molongui Post Contributors requires:

  • PHP version 5.6.20 or greater. Considering WordPress recommends it to be 7.4 or greater, this should not be a problem.
  • WordPress 5.2.0 or later

FAQ

Will Molongui Post Contributors work with my theme?

Yes. Molongui Post Contributors is compatible with any theme. We’ve added integration with most popular themes. You may face some issues though, in such cases, you can open a support ticket with us and we will look into it to find a compatibility fix.

Can I add multiple contributors to a post?

Yes. To add multiple contributors to a single post, you need to upgrade the plugin to the Pro version. You can check all premium features out here.

Is it possible to add contributors that do not have an account in my site?

Yes. To add guest contributors —that’s names that are not WordPress Users— you need to upgrade the plugin to the Pro version. You can check all premium features out here.

Does Molongui Post Contributors work with Elementor?

Yes. To add the post byline in your designs, just use the “Bylines” widget. You can also add a “Shortcode” widget and insert the [molongui_post_byline] shortcode. Both options will display the post byline, but the widget allows you to configure some options.

Does Molongui Post Contributors work with the WP Block Editor?

Yes. To add the post byline in your designs, just use the “Bylines” block. You can also add a “Shortcode” widget and insert the [molongui_post_byline] shortcode. Both options will display the post byline, but the block allows you to configure some options.

Where can I find documentation and user guides?

For help setting up and configuring this plugin, please refer to our documentation.

How do I get support for this plugin?

We’re following the threads on this plugin public Support Forum and based on them, we always try to build up new and better implementations for the plugin.

To help us answer questions as quickly as possible please ensure you provide:

  • A link to your site so we can view issues, especially important for issues around appearance of your website
  • Screenshots
  • Environment Report: This can give us a lot of very useful information. Navigate to Settings > Post Contributors > Help, find the System Status panel, and press the Send Report button.

Paying Pro Customers

If you have purchased a Pro plugin at molongui.com, you can get help faster opening a support ticket using this link. As a Pro Customer, you get Premium Support which comes with priority over requests on this plugin public Support Forum.

Reviews

Awesome Support Team! Fantastic Plugin

August 7, 2024 1 reply
I was looking for a plugin that can add multiple authors and contributors in a post and found Molongui. Gave it a try and it works fine. The support is fantastic I must say. If there is any issue, write to the support team, they are super friendly and ready to go the extra mile to help solve the problem.Sujit

Great plugin

July 30, 2024 1 reply
I was struggling to find a plugin that suited my theme and that could include the names of the editors and fact-checkers in articles. Well, I was delighted to find this and support did a fantastic job in helping me get set up. Looks great on the site and does exactly what it says!
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Contributors & Developers

“Molongui Post Contributors: Multi-Role Contributor Attribution” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.7.3 (2025-11-25)

  • Added: Setting to control displaying the updated date for unedited posts.
  • Added: ‘molongui_contributors/byline/show_update_date_for_unedited_posts’ filter to programmatically control displaying the updated date for unedited posts.
  • Fixed: Removed trailing separator when post update date is not displayed.
  • Changed: Added compatibility with Molongui Authorship 5.2.0
  • Changed: Added compatibility with WordPress 6.8.

1.7.2 (2025-02-04)

  • Fixed: Updated filter name to ensure the author name on the post byline links to the author page when used with the Molongui Authorship plugin.

1.7.1 (2025-01-20)

  • Fixed: Fatal error when loading Elementor editor.

1.7.0 (2025-01-14)

  • Added: Option to display an author box for the post contributor. (Requires the Molongui Authorship plugin to be installed.)

1.6.2 (2024-11-25)

  • Fixed: Unnecessary body class that caused layout issues with certain themes.
  • Changed: Automatically add the ‘Reviewer’ contributor role if no other roles exist.
  • Changed: Added more default contributor roles.
  • Changed: The modified date is now displayed only if the post has been updated after its original publication.
  • Changed: Updated framework files to version 3.2.0.
  • Changed: Added compatibility with WordPress 6.7.

1.6.1 (2024-09-11)

  • Changed: Replaced incorrect dateUpdated property with dateModified for WebPage schema.

1.6.0 (2024-08-22)

  • Added: New layout to display post meta information.
  • Added: Option to control whether to link the author name to their author page.
  • Added: Option to control whether to link the contributor name to their author page.
  • Added: Salient theme integration.
  • Added: New molongui_post_meta shortcode, replacing the molongui_post_bylines shortcode.
  • Added: New molongui_post_info as an alias for the molongui_post_meta shortcode.
  • Fixed: Missing data attributes in the added contributor item.
  • Deprecated: molongui_bylines shortcode. Please replace it with molongui_post_meta.
  • Deprecated: molongui_post_byline shortcode. Please replace it with molongui_post_meta.
  • Deprecated: molongui_post_bylines shortcode. Please replace it with molongui_post_meta.
  • Deprecated: molongui_get_the_post_contributors function. Please replace it with molongui_get_post_contributors.
  • Deprecated: molongui_the_post_byline function. Please replace it with molongui_the_post_meta.
  • Deprecated: molongui_get_the_post_byline function. Please replace it with molongui_get_the_post_meta.
  • Dev: Updated database schema.

1.5.1 (2024-08-07)

  • Fixed: Byline layouts were incorrectly displayed.

1.5.0 (2024-08-06)

  • Added: Betheme theme integration.
  • Added: Blogus theme integration.
  • Added: Botiga theme integration.
  • Added: Bridge theme integration.
  • Added: Colibri WP theme integration.
  • Added: Customify theme integration.
  • Added: Enfold theme integration.
  • Added: Go theme integration.
  • Added: JupiterX theme integration.
  • Added: OnePress theme integration.
  • Added: Phlox theme integration.
  • Added: Storefront theme integration.
  • Added: Sydney theme integration.
  • Added: The7 theme integration.
  • Added: Total theme integration.
  • Added: Uncode theme integration.
  • Added: Zakra theme integration.
  • Fixed: Contributor picker functionality.
  • Fixed: Plugin settings page display issues.

1.4.0 (2024-08-05)

  • Added: Extendable theme integration.
  • Added: Hestia theme integration.
  • Added: Inspiro theme integration.
  • Added: Kadence theme integration.
  • Added: Kubio theme integration.
  • Added: Neve theme integration.
  • Added: News Portal theme integration.
  • Added: PopularFx theme integration.
  • Added: Twenty Ten theme integration.
  • Added: Twenty Eleven theme integration.
  • Added: Twenty Twelve theme integration.
  • Added: Twenty Thirteen theme integration.
  • Added: Twenty Fourteen theme integration.
  • Added: Twenty Fifteen theme integration.
  • Added: Twenty Sixteen theme integration.
  • Added: Twenty Seventeen theme integration.
  • Added: Twenty Nineteen theme integration.
  • Added: Twenty Twenty-Two theme integration.
  • Added: Twenty Twenty-Three theme integration.
  • Added: Twenty Twenty-Four theme integration.
  • Added: YITH Wonder theme integration.
  • Changed: Contributor names now link to their respective author pages.

1.3.1 (2024-07-19)

  • Fixed: Post template #4 layout issues.
  • Fixed: Various minor bugs affecting plugin functionality.
  • Changed: Updated framework files to version 3.1.0.

1.3.0 (2024-07-15)

  • Added: Custom post templates styling options.
  • Fixed: Issues with custom post templates.
  • Changed: Added compatibility with WordPress 6.6.

1.2.2 (2024-07-04)

  • Added: Twenty Twenty theme integration.
  • Added: Twenty Twenty-One theme integration.
  • Fixed: Divi theme integration.
  • Fixed: Contributors selector display problems.

1.2.1 (2024-07-03)

  • Changed: Updated Newspaper theme integration.
  • Fixed: PHP fatal error thrown when a setting is missing.
  • Fixed: Hiding the default theme byline was not working.
  • Fixed: Setup Wizard not redirecting after completion when updating contributor roles.

1.2.0 (2024-07-02)

  • Added: Avada theme integration.
  • Added: Blocksy theme integration.
  • Added: Divi theme integration.
  • Added: Extra theme integration.
  • Added: Flatsome theme integration.
  • Added: jNews theme integration.
  • Added: OceanWP theme integration.
  • Fixed: Users with the contributor user role were not eligible as post contributors.
  • Changed: Redesigned Setup Wizard.
  • Changed: Removed the edit_posts capability requirement to be eligible as post contributors.

1.1.0 (2024-06-24)

  • Changed: Redesigned contributor selector.

1.0.2 (2024-06-21)

  • Fixed: Post contributors were not being saved.
  • Fixed: Fatal error caused by a missing function.
  • Fixed: Malformed SQL query that threw a warning during uninstallation.

1.0.1 (2024-06-17)

  • Changed: Contributor names now link to their author pages.
  • Fixed: Template was overridden on pages other than posts.

1.0.0 (2024-06-03)

  • Initial release.

See changelog for all versions here.

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