When you create a custom post type in WordPress, you can set it to ‘support’ a number of things: a featured image, trackbacks, revisions… and author. You might want to use it in the way author is used for core posts, literally the credited author of a post. Or maybe you could use it to give a bit more granularity to user permissions. The ‘owner’ of a post, if you will. Great!
Well, that’s what I wanted to do. Turns out it’s a little more complicated…