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Anonymous author

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This module allows anonymous users to submit content by adding an anonymous author field to any entity. It captures the user's name, email, and notification preference, optionally sending email alerts for content updates or comments.

Overview

Easily allow anonymous users to post content to your website by adding this field to any entity type and giving the permission to create that entity type or bundle to the anonymous user role. The most typical use-case of this module and the reason why it was initially created is for allowing the creation of forums by unauthenticated users, while requesting their name and email address, and whether they'd like to get notified.

Features

  • Provides an Anonymous Author field type, containing the following values:
    • Name
    • Email
    • Get notified
  • If the user requested to be notified, an email is sent upon updates of the entity or comments on it, the content of which can be modified using the provided hooks:
    • hook_anonymous_author_notification_alter
    • hook_anonymous_author_notification_TYPE_alter

    where TYPE is one of "update" or "comment".

Depends on

Dependencies of the latest stable release

  • field Drupal core

Required by

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Activity

Tracked releases
1
Tracked since
Feb 2025
Latest release
1 year ago
Releases (12 mo)
0 ▼ from 1
Maintenance
Dormant

Releases

Version Type Core Release date
1.3.2 Stable 8–11 Feb 21, 2025