Takaitra

<p>A widget to display a list of authors in your WordPress blog. Includes widget options to configure the features mentioned below. Completely updated to use the new widget API and is multi-widget enabled. Fully XHTML compliant.</p>
<h4>Features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Choose between an HTML list or comma-separated list.</li>
<li>Can show number of published author posts.</li>
<li>Sort authors by name or by post count.</li>
<li>Exclude users below a given post count threshold.</li>
<li>Allows administrator to be excluded from the list.</li>
<li>Choose between displaying usernames or full names in the list.</li>
<li>Can include links to author-specific RSS feeds.</li>
</ul>


List Authors

A widget to display a list of site authors.

mattdu

<p>This plugin uses the custom taxonomy features of WordPress to create “bylines” — essentially, tags representing authors who contributed to a post. The differentiating feature of this plugin is that it should not require any modifications to your theme files (assuming it is already displaying the post author).</p>
<p>This plugin would be useful for publishing situations where the majority of your content is from contributors who you don’t necessarily want to have access to your back-end. It still conveys the appearance that the authors are members of the site (it provides a built-in archive page for each Byline). If your theme displays tag descriptions, you could use the Byline description field to identify guests vs. “staff” writers or provide other author information.</p>
<p>You can see an example of this plugin at work at http://thedailycougar.com</p>


Byline

The Byline plugin is simple and suitable for multi-author WordPress sites.

Best For Multi Author

Solves the co/multi-author problem without modifying the theme. Uses a custom taxonomy, "Byline," that replaces the Display Author.

List Authors vs Byline