Ghostwriter

Ghostwriter Screenshot

Ghostwriter is a Movable Type plugin adding an author field to Edit Entry and Edit Page screens.

To edit the author of an Entry or Page, a user must have the role of Editor or Blog Administrator.

This plugin is perfect for those who commonly create content for which their boss to takes credit!

Requires Movable Type 4.0 or greater.

Note: changing author of pages is broken due to an issue in MT4.01 but fixed in MT4.1.

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Installation

MT_DIR/
    plugins/
        Ghostwriter/
            Ghostwriter.pl
    mt-static/
        plugins/
            Ghostwriter/
                Ghostwriter.gif

Revision History

v1.1 - 2007 Sep 20
Removed some testing code
v1.0 - 2007 Sep 19
Initial Release

Developers

8 Comments

Author Profile Page hank | July 16, 2008 12:02 PM | Reply

beau, any updates on how to get this awesome plugin to work in MT 4.01?

Author Profile Page Beau Smith | July 16, 2008 12:45 PM | Reply

@hank - it does work in 4.01 for Entries, but not for pages due to a bug in MT. It now works in MT4.1 and MT4.2

Author Profile Page Beau Smith | January 27, 2009 12:00 PM | Reply

Feature Request - Add support for changing comment author

Author Profile Page Joerg Petermann | May 7, 2009 1:59 AM | Reply

try to change page author with mt4.23, but it didn’t work for me in 2 installations.

Author Profile Page Beau Smith replied to comment from Joerg Petermann | May 8, 2009 12:05 PM | Reply

While I can’t determine why the plugin is not working for you in your 4.23 install, I can tell you how to change this another way:

  1. Go to “Manage Pages” screen
  2. Click the checkbox for the entries you wish to change the author of
  3. Select “Batch Edit Pages” in the “More actions…” menu
  4. Click the name of the author, and follow the steps to choose a new author.

Cheers.

Author Profile Page https://me.yahoo.com/deeprhythms#0881b | January 29, 2010 6:17 AM | Reply

Hi, are there any plans to add “multiple authors per entry” - functionality to this plug-in? That would be great.

Author Profile Page Beau Smith replied to comment from https://me.yahoo.com/deeprhythms#0881b | January 29, 2010 9:12 AM | Reply

Ghostwriter simply adds a field which is missing from the core Movable Type interface.

Until Movable Type (or Melody) natively allows multiple authors per entry, there are no plans to extend this plugin to do so.

Author Profile Page elkins.myid.net | October 9, 2010 9:11 PM | Reply

This plugin has been so unbelievably useful to me. I don’t know what I’d do without it, and it’s great that it works with MT5, too. Thank you so much for writing it!

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