Authorship made easy

Molongui Author Box solves the most vexing issues about giving credit where credit is due to the authors of particular posts:

1. Must every author be a registered user, with all the privileges and responsibilities (password, etc.) this entails?
2. Can’t two or more people write a post? If so, why should only one author get credit?

This extension solves both problems. The answers to the questions are no, yes, and of course more than one author can get credit. The secret, of course, is that an editor/administrator can add recognized “guest authors” in advance. (It takes an admin to add a registered user unless the administration has opened the blog for self-registration.) Once that’s done, any editor can add authors, from a blended list of users and guests, as easily as scroll, point, and click.

The author box solves another issue: how to recognize an author’s achievements. Without this extension, an author or editor must repeat biographical information in every article, and live with the inconsistency when that information changes. Not so with Molongui Author Box, which allows you to show biographical information, that changes as the author’s life changes. One can even include some crude hyperlinks–use the anchor (“a”) tag with the href parameter. (Sadly, it won’t recognize any other parameter like “target” or “rel”.)

All things considered, this is an excellent tool for editors and administrators to manage authorship without having to hand out user registrations far and wide.