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Decouple authors from users. Instead of using users as authors use a special taxonomy for it.
The plugin gives a simple way to have “guest author”, user generated content, multiple authors,
or any other setting in which you might not want to give people access permissions to the admin
side of WordPress but still want to give credit to the author and have some way to aggregate
his/hers posts on the site.
You can combine this plugin with any other plugin which prevent user enumeration to prevent
user name leakage and
Read more on the plugins main page https://calmpress.org/authors-as-taxonomy/
Pull Requests, bug reports and/or enhancement suggestions are welcome at https://github.com/calmPress/Authors-as-taxonomy