Discourse Authorship Plugin

angus · January 18, 2022, 3:14am

Summary: This plugin lets a selected user impersonate any other user when creating posts and likes.

Giving someone the ability to impersonate any user when posting or liking is extremely powerful, so use this with care. Giving this power to a non admin user is possible, but not recommended.

GitHub: GitHub - angusmcleod/discourse-authorship: Manage authorship of posts and likes · GitHub
Install: Follow the plugin installation guide.

Context

This is work done for a client some time ago that can now be open sourced. This is not an official Pavilion plugin and won’t be extended unless there is significant interest in it. It is being open sourced now due to a number of enquiries about the reference here:

Features

Select an admin user who has authorship powers
The user with authorship powers can select other users to author content with
The user can create posts and like posts as other users

Configuration

Set the user with authorship powers using the author selection username site setting
User with authorship powers can select the users they can create content with in their “user interface” settings
User with authorship powers can select from list of users when creating posts or toggling likes

Notes

This plugin is designed to be compatible with the presence plugin.

Screenshots

Select a user to like with

Select a user to post with

pfaffman · July 4, 2023, 7:38pm

Looks like this got broken here:

github.com/angusmcleod/discourse-authorship

plugin.rb

main


      
          
          add_to_serializer(:current_user, :author_selection_enabled) { user.author_selection_enabled }
          add_to_serializer(:current_user, :author_list) { user.author_list }
          DiscoursePluginRegistry.serialized_current_user_fields << "author_list"
          register_editable_user_custom_field :author_list 
          add_permitted_post_create_param(:user_id, :string)
          
          add_to_class(:guardian, :can_delete_post_action?) do |post_action|
            return true if @user.author_selected && @user.respond_to?(:author_selected)
            return false unless is_my_own?(post_action) && !post_action.is_private_message?
            post_action.created_at > SiteSetting.post_undo_action_window_mins.minutes.ago
          end
          
          add_to_class(:posts_controller, :create) do
            @manager_params = create_params
            @manager_params[:first_post_checks] = !is_api?
            
            post_user = current_user
            
            if current_user.author_selection_enabled &&
               @manager_params[:user_id] &&

I think as of:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/fbcc35b417341f04c5d7311b053b857fb461152d

I submitted a PR here: remove test for is_bookmark? by pfaffman · Pull Request #2 · angusmcleod/discourse-authorship · GitHub

denvergeeks · April 10, 2024, 3:35am

I cannot get this plugin to work - is it broken?

Olle11 · April 1, 2025, 9:58pm

Should this one be marked as broken ?

Arkshine · April 1, 2025, 11:18pm

I gave it a test; indeed, it’s partially broken, and there are deprecations as well.

I will add the broken tag and see if I can modernize it when I will have some time.

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