I had same issue a month ago. As you I tried to use Co-Author Plus, but with the Plugin I haven’t reached my goal. So , at the end, I thought that they are not real user and I make them like a custom taxonomy and I solved any problem
Related Posts:
- How to hide user profile fields based on the role of the viewed user?
- Restrict Access to the User Profile
- If the current user is an administrator or editor
- Find out if logged in user is not subscriber
- Groups of capabilities: users with multiple roles?
- User-edit role setting distinct from wp_capabilities? [closed]
- Execute a function when admin changes the user role
- Disallowing Users of a Custom Role from Deleting or Adding Administrators?
- What the user_status column?
- Hide Admin Menu for Specific User ID who has administrator Role
- Grouping users under parent user
- How to update user role without logout
- How to create a public profile for authors/contributors/users?
- Do not allow users to create new posts and pages
- How to enable the theme editor cap for an editor role?
- How to assign an additional/extra/second user-role to multiple users (of a specific user-role)
- How do I properly format the user_role array?
- How to customize wp_signon()
- Is there a simple way to manage capabilities per user?
- Is it possible to get a user with just the password field?
- Redirect after login based on user role (custom login page)
- Can I create users that have access to *some* other users posts instead of all other users posts?
- Users roles, make a page belonging to multiple users
- Tagging users in WordPress
- Redirect after users complete profile form
- Add custom fields to the user profile
- Cannot set user passwords
- Disable user profile editing for one user
- Getting users by specific capability, not role
- Creating user relationships
- How to disable a specific page for a specific user
- Are User Levels Still Currently Used?
- How to add a user profile page to frontend?
- How to show a gloabl message on a user profile page (in back end)?
- Error: How to allow the “contributor” to upload media in wordpress
- Remove Capabilities from WP admin for specific user role
- wordpress user roles are not working
- Displaying different in-page content to cliente/admin
- Fix permissions for users role
- User capability for editing their own comments
- What are some best practices for user exit strategy?
- Is there a way to identify a user in a custom REST API method? [duplicate]
- Problem with automatic role change through cron job
- Allow Contributors to Upload Files
- Is possible to allow user to login with different role?
- Profile page for user roles
- User profile updates password even if not filled (Theme my login) in Firefox? [closed]
- Prevent subscribers to changing certain profile fields
- How do I let contributors edit their posts after being approved once?
- How can I prevent certain custom roles from seeing other custom roles on the user list page?
- Creating User Profiles using author.php
- How to display text if profile fields are not filled?
- What is correct way to change user’s email?
- Load user by specific role
- What’s the correct way to add capabilites to user roles?
- Fix ‘Add Role’ Option not there in wordpress 5.2.2
- User roles not displaying
- Allow admins to login as other users
- How to make current user’s avatar + display name link to their profile?
- Give users alternative/second avatar that is rectangle sized
- Assigning multiple or additional capabilities to specific users or how to create additional roles like bbpress roles?
- Change User Role based on Point System Issue
- How do I modify the user role ‘subscriber’ to allow the user to delete posts
- How to display all user profile info in myaccount page wordpress
- How to display extra fields for user
- How to make WordPress ‘editor’ role to list/view/add/edit users only with the role ‘author’?
- I need a link that directs the user that is logged to his profile
- How to hide “Change role to” dropdown on Users admin menu
- Find count of WordPress users by role and search string for user name
- how to create user profile pages and display them based on users roles
- How can i display pagination in custom comment list?
- hide page menu from admin panel for specific users
- How to make custom user profile page public?
- Disabling user capability to edit_posts or delete_posts in the front-end
- In admin manage users page, how can I stop users with certain privileges from editing users with other privileges?
- User Role not showing in Users Screen
- Groups roles & capabilities
- Button for users to upgrade their user role + Button to show current user role!
- Allowing users to edit only their page and nobody else’s
- How to bulk change user role to “No role for this site”
- Showing extra profile fields in admin – problem with underscore
- Add an ‘edit profile’ page with Genesis
- Subscriber role – blank page
- Separate Profiles for Users
- How to get only 1 role from user
- User “none” role
- How to create a link to a user’s profile page
- Validate user meta and redirect
- Storing additional information about the user
- Giving users an editable homepage/business directory
- How to create front-end (editable) WordPress user profile pages?
- i need to let a user to add a role from a frontend form
- Limit user access to installing/configuring a plugin?
- Disable editing profile for second time
- What techniques can a user employ to achieve a password rated “strong” in the WordPress password checker
- Increase by one the user counter on specific role
- Show only users with the same role in Dashboard user list
- Cant edit profile from frontend
- WordPress: New user role which is ONLY allowed to manage media
- Can we get user profile page using user_id in the URL?