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Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #1840, comment 10


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08/11/2016 12:43:31 AM (8 years ago)
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  • Ticket #1840, comment 10

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    55In WordPress we have always displayed a single primary author, and a list of Contributors (Which the directory, arguably incorrectly, called Authors, as it lacked any other data-source).
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    7 For most of the multi author plugins, they usually have a singular author or company which is marked as the plugin author (Just the same as the Plugin Headers).
     7For most of the multi author plugins, they usually have a singular author or company which is marked as the plugin author (Just the same as the Plugin Headers). Note that sometimes the author is also "The XYZ Plugin Team" which while won't be supported super easily by the changes here, opens the ability to set that through an independent user account, much like companies currently do.
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    99Part of the efforts here (although not obvious on this trac ticket) have been to make it consistent for a plugin author to know what will be shown in what place (unlike the present situation).