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(84)•Updated 356d ago
Allows an admin (or capable user) to edit the author slug of a user, and change the author base.
100,000 installs1,534,141 downloads44/100 • Stale
WP Meta and Date Remover(71)•Updated 70d ago
Remove meta author and date information from posts and pages. Hide from Humans and Search engines.SEO friendly and most advance plugin.
90,000 installs2,091,678 downloads65/100 • Actively maintained
Hide/Remove Metadata(14)•Updated 70d 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 installs293,921 downloads63/100 • Actively maintained
Starbox – the Author Box for Humans(203)•Updated 374d ago
Starbox is the Author Box for Humans. Professional Themes to choose from, HTML5, Social Media Profiles, Google Authorship
10,000 installs518,673 downloads35/100 • Possibly abandoned
Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress(157)•Updated 91d 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 installs576,297 downloads59/100 • Maintained
WP Author, Date and Meta Remover(26)•Updated 1939d 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 installs265,681 downloads26/100 • Possibly abandoned
WP Post Author – Author Box, Multiple Authors, Guest Authors & Custom Avatars(20)•Updated 47d ago
WP Post Author is the ultimate solution for an Author Box, Multiple Authors, Guest Authors, and Local Avatars. Easily manage Author Bios, Co-authors, …
10,000 installs1,006,426 downloads53/100 • Actively maintained
Head Meta Data(19)•Updated 51d ago
Adds a custom set of <meta> tags to the <head> section of all posts & pages.
10,000 installs470,232 downloads63/100 • Actively maintained
Meks Smart Author Widget(8)•Updated 663d ago
Easily display your author/user profile info inside WordPress widget.
10,000 installs430,451 downloads28/100 • Possibly abandoned
VK Post Author Display(8)•Updated 53d ago
Display to Post Author Information Box on bottom of the contents.
10,000 installs250,796 downloads61/100 • Actively maintained
Disable Author Archives(7)•Updated 166d ago
Disable Author Archives completely removes author archives and makes the web server return status code 404 ('Not Found') instead.
10,000 installs73,082 downloads52/100 • Maintained
Fancier Author Box by ThematoSoup(33)•Updated 3898d 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 3866d ago
Interface to customize the permalinks (author, category, archives and pagination) and htaccess file generated by WordPress.
7,000 installs217,382 downloads14/100 • Possibly abandoned
Authors List(22)•Updated 175d 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 installs57,063 downloads54/100 • Maintained
Guest Author(14)•Updated 165d ago
Add a guest author to any post without needing to register the guest author as a user on your site.
5,000 installs72,965 downloads54/100 • Maintained
WP Custom Author URL(8)•Updated 40d ago
Set a custom URL for your author name link, on a global or author-specific basis. Also redirects all author pages.
5,000 installs28,010 downloads61/100 • Actively maintained
Author Avatars List/Block(32)•Updated 170d ago
Display lists of user avatars using widgets or shortcodes. With Gutenberg support.
4,000 installs379,616 downloads56/100 • Maintained
3,000 installs53,761 downloads26/100 • Possibly abandoned
3,000 installs30,448 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
White Login Screen(0)•Updated 4360d ago
Change WordPress login screen to white color to make it clearer.
0 installs1,134 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned