Display author, writing and editing date - fully customizable for content, excerpt, home, archive... with exceptions. Great for multi-author websites.

Morten Rand-Hendriksen

Cool Author Box

Adds a stylish author box with author name, bio, Gravatar and links after the content in posts and/or pages.

David Shabtai

glanum

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<li>NEW each author now links to a personnal page or external URL, in addition to author posts (default)</li>
<li>NEW better integration with home, archive categories and custom loops</li>
<li>NEW a few more options with avatar, before/after content</li>
<li>NEW no repetition of author name if revision author is the same</li>
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This great simple plugin, written with <a href="http://www.glanum.com" rel="nofollow ugc">multimedia agency</a> Glanum, adds the author and date at the top or bottom of the content on posts, on pages and on archive categories (optionally along with last modified date and author), with a fully custom per-post / per-page hide option. Especially usefull for multi-author sites and blogs:
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<li>Name of the author of the post or page, optional avatar</li>
<li>Date of first publication</li>
<li>Author and date of last revision</li>
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It is flexible and offers the following options in the admin menu:
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<li>Display the post author info independently on posts, pages, archive categories and home</li>
<li>Specific per-post/per-page exception: hide the info on any post and page you want!</li>
<li>Choose: before or after the content or the excerpt independently</li>
<li>Optional link on author name to WP’s default author posts list or now to a custom author page or external URL</li>
<li>Write your own label before and after the name of the author: e.g. <code>Contributed by</code> Author Name <code>for OurNewsBlog</code></li>
<li>Date of 1st publication is optional, and supports surrounding text like above</li>
<li>Author and date of last revision are both independently optional, and only display if revision author or date are different from the original, with surrounding text</li>
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The plugin is initially intended for very small to much larger multi-author blogs (newspaper, magazine, webzine, collaborative publications, communities…) when an article is supposed to be signed by its author and not remain anonymous, as commonly expected in journalism and publishing.
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<li>Lastly, information is displayed in nested <code>div</code> and <code>span</code> so it is CSS ready, just up to you to do the styling to your taste. See the screenshots.</li>
<li>Integrates great with qTranslate for multilingual or international blogs, using <a href="http://www.qianqin.de/qtranslate/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3&p=15#p15" rel="nofollow ugc">Quicktags</a></li>
<li>Available in English, French, Belarusian (credit <a href="http://pc.de/" rel="nofollow ugc">Marcis Gasuns</a>), German (credit <a href="http://diensten.kiwa.nl/mvo" rel="nofollow ugc">Rian Kremer</a>), Hebrew (credit <a href="http://www.sagive.co.il" rel="nofollow ugc">Sagive</a>), Romanian (credit Luke Tyler), Slovak (credit <a href="http://webhostinggeeks.com/user-reviews/" rel="nofollow ugc">Branco Radenovich</a>) and Farsi (credit <a href="http://www.itstar.ir" rel="nofollow ugc">Hamed Nourhani</a>).</li>
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