Alternatives to WordPress Shortcodes
An amazing set of great shortcodes: SEO-ready tabs, accordions, buttons, links to any content, author cards, lists, layouts, conditionals and more!
Snapshot
Rating: 4.0/5 (57 reviews)
Downloads: 268,109
Active installs: 3,000
Maintenance score: 16/100
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 3.1
Tested up to: 4.7.25
Requires PHP: f
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Edit Author Slug(83)•Updated 217d ago
Allows an admin (or capable user) to edit the author slug of a user, and change the author base.
100,000 installs1,498,092 downloads44/100 • Stale
WP Meta and Date Remover(70)•Updated 194d ago
Remove meta author and date information from posts and pages. Hide from Humans and Search engines.SEO friendly and most advance plugin.
100,000 installs2,065,956 downloads44/100 • Stale
Hide/Remove Metadata(13)•Updated 231d ago
Hide/Remove Metadata is a free WordPress plugin that helps you hide author and published date either by CSS or PHP from your website effortlessly.
20,000 installs272,582 downloads42/100 • Stale
Starbox – the Author Box for Humans(203)•Updated 235d ago
Starbox is the Author Box for Humans. Professional Themes to choose from, HTML5, Social Media Profiles, Google Authorship
10,000 installs515,018 downloads47/100 • Stale
Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress(155)•Updated 246d ago
All-in-One Authorship Solution: Seamless Author Box, Guest Authors, and Co-Authors to enhance your site's authority, credibility, engagement, and SEO.
10,000 installs520,385 downloads47/100 • Stale
WP Author, Date and Meta Remover(26)•Updated 1800d ago
Don't need the post date and author meta data on your pages? Install WP Author, Date and Meta Remover and its gone. It's that easy!
10,000 installs264,709 downloads26/100 • Possibly abandoned
WP Post Author – Author Box, Co-Authors & Guest Authors(19)•Updated 46d ago
Display author boxes, social links, co-authors, guest authors, post rating system, and user registration forms.
10,000 installs895,555 downloads63/100 • Actively maintained
Head Meta Data(19)•Updated 42d ago
Adds a custom set of <meta> tags to the <head> section of all posts & pages.
10,000 installs445,010 downloads63/100 • Actively maintained
Meks Smart Author Widget(8)•Updated 525d ago
Easily display your author/user profile info inside WordPress widget.
10,000 installs427,389 downloads28/100 • Possibly abandoned
VK Post Author Display(8)•Updated 103d ago
Display to Post Author Information Box on bottom of the contents.
10,000 installs231,585 downloads52/100 • Maintained
Disable Author Archives(7)•Updated 27d ago
Disable Author Archives completely removes author archives and makes the web server return status code 404 ('Not Found') instead.
10,000 installs70,516 downloads70/100 • Actively maintained
Fancier Author Box by ThematoSoup(33)•Updated 3759d ago
Give identity to your single or multi-author WordPress website with Fancier Author Box - The Only Author Box Plugin You'll Ever Need.
7,000 installs195,214 downloads16/100 • Possibly abandoned
WP htaccess Control(17)•Updated 3727d ago
Interface to customize the permalinks (author, category, archives and pagination) and htaccess file generated by WordPress.
7,000 installs217,138 downloads14/100 • Possibly abandoned
Author Avatars List/Block(32)•Updated 32d ago
Display lists of user avatars using widgets or shortcodes. With Gutenberg support.
5,000 installs376,468 downloads65/100 • Actively maintained
Authors List(22)•Updated 36d ago
Use a shortcode to display a list or grid of post authors (or any other user role) and links to their post archives page.
5,000 installs54,744 downloads63/100 • Actively maintained
Guest Author(14)•Updated 27d ago
Add a guest author to any post without needing to register the guest author as a user on your site.
5,000 installs70,586 downloads82/100 • Actively maintained
WP Custom Author URL(8)•Updated 424d ago
Set a custom URL for your author name link, on a global or author-specific basis. Also redirects all author pages.
5,000 installs27,290 downloads28/100 • Possibly abandoned
3,000 installs53,251 downloads32/100 • Possibly abandoned
(Simply) Guest Author Name(23)•Updated 155d ago
Create a post and override the author name with one or more names or text. You can also create a link for the author name field
3,000 installs77,477 downloads54/100 • Maintained
White Login Screen(0)•Updated 4222d ago
Change WordPress login screen to white color to make it clearer.
0 installs1,078 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned