Author Kit Team

The most user-friendly plugin for managing author profiles. Adds a truly simple author box, support multiple authors, guest authors, and much more.
<h3>AUTHOR KIT #1 WORDPRESS AUTHOR MANAGEMENT PLUGIN</h3>
It’s time to support human-written content on your website by using Author Kit to streamline your author management. 
Productivity for Authors is the goal of Author Kit. Simplifying the navigating and displaying the data in Ajax-based tables, it facilitates the management of users, posts, and authors from a single dashboard.
<h3>MAIN FEATURES</h3>
• User-friendly data table for Users, Posts, and Authors. 
• Get real-time online status for every user and connect efficiently. 
• Block and unblock users with just one click to secure the dashboard. 
• Manage author profiles by adding details such as a bio, job title, email address, company, and much more. 
• One-click switching between local avatars and gravatars. 
• Pre-made templates for Post Author Meta Bylines, Author Archive Pages, and Author Bio Boxes. 
• Completely editable using your favorite WordPress Customizer. 
• Full display control per user and per post to display or hide bio box. 
• Easily add multiple co-authors to posts with one click — even guests and subscribers. 
• Create guest user accounts with just one click. 
• All major social platform integrations — add social icons including new trending platforms like BlueSky and Mastodon. 
• Simply install and activate to enjoy a productive and hassle-free experience; there is a lot more.
<h3>Author kit provides a truly simple author box</h3>
Author Kit lets you display a modern, responsive author box at the top or bottom of your posts. Show the author’s name, avatar, job title, company name, email, bio, and connect over 50+ social profiles — including Bluesky and Mastodon. With built-in support for guest authors and multiple co-authors per post, it’s the ideal solution for blogs, magazines, and content teams looking for flexibility and ease of use.
<h3>Full Customization Support</h3>
Enjoy a full-featured author box customization experience — all included in the free version!
• Customize width, height, and background color of the author box 
• Show author name, job title, company name, email, bio, and social icons 
• Toggle between circle and square icons for author social profiles 
• Supports over 50+ social platforms, including Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, X (Twitter), and more 
• Choose avatar size, border radius 
• Add or change section heading/label, like “About the Author”, “Written by”, or custom text 
• Mobile-responsive layout with adaptive styling for all screen sizes 
• Change position of the author box: display at the top or bottom of posts 
• Add toggle button to show/hide the author box on click 
• Enable or disable the author box per post using a simple meta box toggle 
• Enable or disable the author box per user from user profile settings 
• Customize margins, padding, borders, and box shadow for layout refinement 
• Control visibility of fields like email, job title, and company name 
• Fully compatible with most WordPress themes and popular page builders like Elementor, Block Editor, WPBakery, etc. 
• Built with clean code and WordPress standards for full RTL, accessibility, and translation support
<h3>Advanced Author Archive Templates</h3>
Author Kit lets you easily replace your theme’s default author archive page with a fully customizable and responsive layout . 
Display a modern author profile section at the top, followed by a neat, customizable post grid layout. Perfect for blogs, magazines, and content teams.
Features: 
• Instantly override your theme’s author archive template 
• Show author avatar, display name, job title, company, email, and bio 
• Include 50+ social profile icons — supports LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon, X (Twitter), and more 
• Customize the section heading (e.g. “Articles by”, “Written by”, or your own text) 
• Full styling and layout customization: 
  • Customize spacing (margin/padding) 
  • Customize background colors, font sizes, border radius etc. 
  • Control visibility of specific fields: bio, job title, company name, email 
• Works seamlessly with almost all modern WordPress themes
<h3>Post Meta & Author Byline</h3>
Author Kit also lets you display a clean, customizable post meta line, perfect for showing author, contributor, co-authors, and post details in a smart and flexible layout.
This feature adds a modern author byline with clickable links to each author’s archive page and optional post metadata like publish date, last updated date, and comment count — all with full styling control and live preview.
Features: 
• Display a smart byline with support for single author, guest author, co-authors, and contributors 
• Link author names and contributor names directly to their archive pages 
• Show l meta fields like: 
  • Post publish date 
  • Last updated date 
  • Comment count (with link to comments section) 
• Show or hide specific fields as needed — full visibility control 
• Add a label before the author name (e.g. “By”, “Written by”, or custom text) 
• Customize: 
  • Font size and color 
  • Spacing and alignment 
  • Link styling (hover color, underline, etc.) 
  • Author separator (e.g. commas, slashes, bullets) 
• Fully compatible with guest authors and multi-author posts 
• Works with all major WordPress themes like Astra ,Blocksy etc.
<h3>Notes</h3>
Author Kit is beginner friendly— no code required. 
It’s a complete, user-friendly plugin that helps you manage authors with ease. The clean interface saves time and reduces distraction, letting you focus on what matters.
We started as bloggers
As our team and content grew, we realized there wasn’t a simple, beginner-friendly solution to manage authors on blogs, magazines, or multi-author websites. 
So we decided to build the tool we wished we had — and that’s how Author Kit was born.
If you run a WordPress blog with multiple Authors, this plugin is for you.
We’re committed to improving Author Kit continuously — and your feedback plays a big role in shaping its future. 
Let’s build the most intuitive and powerful author management experience for WordPress, together.
Thanks you
The Author Kit Team

Author Kit | Effortlessly Manage author profiles and add modern author bio boxes to posts

The most user-friendly plugin for managing author profiles. Adds a truly simple author box, support multiple authors, guest authors, and much more.

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Feel free to get in touch with us about anything you’d like me to add to this plugin or any feedback. We love hearing from our users! <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/media-credit/#postform" rel="ugc">Start a thread on the plugin forum</a> and we’ll get back to you shortly!
This plugin adds a “Credit” field when uploading media to posts and displays it under the images on your blog to properly credit the artist.
When adding media through the Media Uploader tool or editing media already in the Media Library, this plugin adds a new field to the media form that allows users to assign credit for given media to a user of your blog (assisted with autocomplete) or to any freeform text (e.g. courtesy photos, etc.).
When this media is then inserted into a post, a new shortcode, <code>[media-credit]</code>, surrounds the media, inside of any caption, with the provided media credit information. Media credit inside this shortcode is then displayed on your blog under your media with the class <code>.media-credit</code>, which has some default styling but which you can customize to your heart’s content.
You can also display all the media by an author on the author’s page. See more in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-credit/faq/" rel="ugc">FAQ</a>. 
Options
This plugin provides a few options which appear on the Media page under Settings. These options are:
<ul>
<li>Separator</li>
<li>Organization</li>
<li>Display credits after post</li>
</ul>
Example
This is best explained with an example. With a separator of ” | ” and an organization of The Daily Times, media inserted will be followed with a credit line appearing as follows, with the username linking to the author page for that user:
<a href="" rel="nofollow ugc">John Smith</a> | The Daily Times
Further explanation
Separator: These are the characters that separate the display name for a user on your blog from the name of the organization, as described below. The default separator is ” | ” but feel free to change this to suit your needs.
Organization: This is what appears after the separator as listed above. The default organization is the name of your blog.
Display credits after post: With this option enabled, media credit shortcodes will not appear by default when inserting media into your posts. Instead, the plugin will look through the content of your posts for any media attachments and display something like the following at the end of each post with the CSS class .media-credit-end:
Images courtesy of <a href="" rel="nofollow ugc">John Smith</a> | The Daily Times, Michael Scott and Jane Doe.
In this example, John Smith is a user of your blog, while the latter two credits are not.

Media Credit

Does exactly what is asked of it, resources for developers, what more could you ask for?

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Adds a "Credit" field when uploading media to posts and displays it under the images on your blog to properly credit the artist.

Author Kit | Effortlessly Manage author profiles and add modern author bio boxes to posts vs Media Credit