Marta Torre

humans.txt is an initiative for knowing the people behind a website. It’s a text file that lists the people who contributed to building the site – developers, designers, and others. Think of it as the opposite of robots.txt: robots.txt is for machines, humans.txt is for people.
MTDEV Humans TXT lets you create and edit your site’s humans.txt file straight from the WordPress dashboard, without touching code or uploading files over FTP.
The file is served virtually at your site root (<code>https://your-site.com/humans.txt</code>) through rewrite rules, so it needs no write permissions and no physical file is created. It also adds the recommended <code>rel="author"</code> link to your site’s <code><head></code>, pointing to your humans.txt file.
Features:
<ul>
<li>Content editor with a default template based on the standard (TEAM, THANKS, SITE).</li>
<li>Virtual <code>/humans.txt</code> served as <code>text/plain</code>.</li>
<li>Option to enable or disable the <code><head></code> link.</li>
<li>No physical files, multisite friendly.</li>
<li>Makes no external server calls.</li>
<li>Translation ready (text domain <code>mtdev-humans-txt</code>).</li>
</ul>
Learn more about the initiative: https://humanstxt.org
Development / source code: https://github.com/martatorredev/mtdev-humans-txt

MTDEV Humans TXT

Credit the people behind your site with a humans.txt file you can edit right in WordPress. Served virtually, with an automatic author link.

Made Neat

Give credit where it’s due! Acknowledgify is a lightweight and flexible plugin that allows developers, freelancers, and agencies to showcase their contributions to a website.
Key features include:
<ul>
<li>humans.txt Generator – Automatically create a virtual <code>humans.txt</code> file to recognize contributors such as developers, designers, and agencies.</li>
<li>Meta Tags for Acknowledgment – Insert author, designer, developer, and publisher meta tags dynamically into the <code><head></code> section.</li>
<li>Customizable Footer Link – Add a discreet, styled acknowledgment link in the footer with flexible placement options:
<ul>
<li>Auto-Insert: Automatically place the link at the bottom of the site.</li>
<li>Shortcode: Use <code>[acknowledgify_madeby_footer]</code> in any post, page, or widget for custom placement.</li>
<li>PHP Snippet: Manually insert the acknowledgment via <code><?php if (function_exists('acknowledgify_display_madeby_footer')) { echo acknowledgify_display_madeby_footer(); } ?></code>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Lightweight & Compatible – Designed for performance, fully compatible with WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 8.0+.</li>
<li>Built to be Translated – Includes translations and supports further multilingual setups.</li>
<li>Export/Import Features – Simplify plugin setup across multiple websites with seamless export and import functionality.</li>
</ul>
With Acknowledgify, you can showcase your work in a non-intrusive way while maintaining flexibility over how and where the acknowledgment appears.
Translation-Ready & Multilingual Support: 
Acknowledgify is fully translation-ready and supports multiple languages via WordPress.org’s translation system. Translations will be automatically downloaded based on your site’s language settings.
<h3>Links</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://acknowledgify.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Website</a></li>
<li><a href="https://acknowledgify.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Suggest Features</a></li>
<li><a href="https://humanstxt.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">humans.txt</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Support</h3>
For documentation and support, visit: 
<a href="https://acknowledgify.com" rel="nofollow ugc">https://acknowledgify.com</a>
<h3>License & Credits</h3>
This plugin is licensed under GPL-2.0+. 
Inspired by the humans.txt initiative.

Acknowledgify

Acknowledgify lets agencies, freelancers, and developers add credits to WordPress sites via humans.txt, meta tags, and footer links.

MTDEV Humans TXT vs Acknowledgify