WordPress author plugins
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Edit Author Slug(84)•Updated 400d ago
Allows an admin (or capable user) to edit the author slug of a user, and change the author base.
100,000 installs1,550,621 downloads32/100 • Possibly abandoned
WP Meta and Date Remover(71)•Updated 31d 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 installs2,145,696 downloads75/100 • Actively maintained
Hide/Remove Metadata(14)•Updated 35d 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 installs310,842 downloads63/100 • Actively maintained
Starbox – the Author Box for Humans(203)•Updated 418d ago
Starbox is the Author Box for Humans. Professional Themes to choose from, HTML5, Social Media Profiles, Google Authorship
10,000 installs520,518 downloads35/100 • Possibly abandoned
Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress(157)•Updated 135d 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 installs580,981 downloads69/100 • Maintained
WP Author, Date and Meta Remover(25)•Updated 1983d 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 installs266,369 downloads26/100 • Possibly abandoned
WP Post Author – Author Box, Multiple Authors, Guest Authors & Custom Avatars(22)•Updated 13d 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 installs1,052,893 downloads72/100 • Actively maintained
Head Meta Data(19)•Updated 71d ago
Adds a custom set of <meta> tags to the <head> section of all posts & pages.
10,000 installs481,790 downloads63/100 • Actively maintained
Meks Smart Author Widget(8)•Updated 708d ago
Easily display your author/user profile info inside WordPress widget.
10,000 installs432,103 downloads28/100 • Possibly abandoned
VK Post Author Display(8)•Updated 98d ago
Display to Post Author Information Box on bottom of the contents.
10,000 installs253,042 downloads52/100 • Maintained
Disable Author Archives(7)•Updated 39d ago
Disable Author Archives completely removes author archives and makes the web server return status code 404 ('Not Found') instead.
10,000 installs75,333 downloads61/100 • Actively maintained
Fancier Author Box by ThematoSoup(33)•Updated 3942d 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 3910d 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 219d 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 installs57,770 downloads42/100 • Stale
Guest Author(14)•Updated 57d ago
Add a guest author to any post without needing to register the guest author as a user on your site.
5,000 installs78,115 downloads73/100 • Actively maintained
WP Custom Author URL(8)•Updated 85d ago
Set a custom URL for your author name link, on a global or author-specific basis. Also redirects all author pages.
5,000 installs28,398 downloads61/100 • Actively maintained
Author Avatars List/Block(32)•Updated 41d ago
Display lists of user avatars using widgets or shortcodes. With Gutenberg support.
4,000 installs383,502 downloads65/100 • Actively maintained
WordPress Shortcodes(57)•Updated 3553d ago
An amazing set of great shortcodes: SEO-ready tabs, accordions, buttons, links to any content, author cards, lists, layouts, conditionals and more!
3,000 installs268,109 downloads16/100 • Possibly abandoned
3,000 installs54,027 downloads26/100 • Possibly abandoned
3,000 installs30,714 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
CPO Widgets(2)•Updated 2064d ago
Add essential functionality to your WordPress sidebars with a set of useful widgets.
3,000 installs70,121 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
(Simply) Guest Author Name(23)•Updated 129d 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
2,000 installs79,595 downloads54/100 • Maintained
WP Author Slug(19)•Updated 34d ago
Add a layer of security and prevent your login name from being shown in the author archive's URL.
2,000 installs37,982 downloads63/100 • Actively maintained
Bulk Change Media Author(8)•Updated 1035d ago
Bulk change author for multiple media files, using the default WP Media Library.
2,000 installs10,318 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
RS Author Info Box(0)•Updated 46d ago
A simple and lightweight widget to display an author's name, profile image, short description, and social media links in any sidebar or widget area.
2,000 installs30,661 downloads59/100 • Actively maintained
Mooberry Book Manager(46)•Updated 565d ago
Sell books via Amazon and other retailers directly from your author website with this easy-to-use system. Creates book pages, widgets, and book grids.
1,000 installs174,576 downloads32/100 • Possibly abandoned
1,000 installs84,122 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
1,000 installs40,225 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
Author Box WP Lens(12)•Updated 29d ago
A plugin which provides an author box for your WordPress blog. Originally known as "Author Box for Divi."
1,000 installs32,589 downloads72/100 • Actively maintained
SF Author Url Control(11)•Updated 3741d ago
Allows administrators or capable users to change the users profile url.
1,000 installs21,623 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
cbnet Multi Author Comment Notification(6)•Updated 3731d ago
Send comment notification and comment moderation emails to multiple users. Select users individually or by user role, or send emails to arbitrary emai …
1,000 installs30,166 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
1,000 installs19,811 downloads40/100 • Stale
Authors Widget(4)•Updated 3137d ago
Authors Widget shows the list or cloud of the authors in the sidemenu.
1,000 installs112,578 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Comment Moderation/Notification Recipients(4)•Updated 132d ago
Control who will receive new comment and moderation notifications. Light weight, simple, safe and effective.
1,000 installs24,943 downloads52/100 • Maintained
Author Filters(4)•Updated 2018d ago
Author filters plugin integrates an author filter drop down to sort listing on post, page, custom post type in admin.
1,000 installs16,453 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
1,000 installs143,725 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Free Responsive Post/Article Author Section Plugin for WordPress – Ultimate Author Box Lite(8)•Updated 1478d ago
Ultimate Author Box Lite is a plugin that allows you to add additional information about the author in your Post, Page and Custom Post Type as a defau …
900 installs20,851 downloads12/100 • Possibly abandoned
Admin Page Notes(9)•Updated 113d ago
Gives administrators the ability to add notes to posts of any post type (including pages) that are prominently displayed for users editing the site.
800 installs10,957 downloads52/100 • Maintained
Change Author Link Structure(4)•Updated 482d ago
To prevent that usernames are publically visible, the username in the author's permalink is replaced with the author's ID.
800 installs9,079 downloads28/100 • Possibly abandoned
Comment Email Reply(15)•Updated 4104d ago
Simply notifies comment-author via email if someone replies to his comment. Zero Configuration.
600 installs11,133 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
Cool Author Box – For Widget and Post Content(2)•Updated 18d ago
Cool Author Box displays an responsive author box with social media links to your widget and post content area.
600 installs13,709 downloads70/100 • Actively maintained
GS Books Showcase – Display Books in Grid, Slider & More | Library for WordPress(41)•Updated 28d ago
Showcase your books in Grid, Slider, Filter & Flip layouts. GS Books Showcase is the ultimate book library plugin for WordPress.
500 installs31,362 downloads74/100 • Actively maintained
500 installs80,810 downloads30/100 • Possibly abandoned
Custom Author Byline(10)•Updated 5502d ago
Allows you to add an author name and link to the byline, other than the actual logged in user, without that custom author having to have a WordPress a …
500 installs24,783 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
Product Author for WooCommerce(4)•Updated 187d ago
Product Author for WooCommerce enables author functionality for Woocommerce Products, Author can be assigned to Woocommerce Product using this plugin
500 installs13,731 downloads40/100 • Stale
WP Author Security(2)•Updated 1176d ago
Protect against user enumeration attacks on author pages and other places where valid user names can be obtained.
500 installs6,762 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
500 installs14,730 downloads28/100 • Possibly abandoned
NoFollow Free(0)•Updated 5964d ago
NoFollow Free removes the "nofollow" tag from your Wordpress blog's comments with a lot of custom options and provides the option to in …
500 installs68,123 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Google SEO Pressor for Rich snippets(11)•Updated 1280d ago
Enrich your WordPress website content with Google Structured Data and make it more SEO friendly.
400 installs72,083 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
Author WIP Progress Bar(7)•Updated 581d ago
Tested up to 6.7.1 The WIP Progress Bar plugin allows writers and authors to display beautiful progress bars on their WordPress websites via a Widget …
400 installs9,950 downloads28/100 • Possibly abandoned
SX No author Pagination(0)•Updated 433d ago
SX No author Pagination removes properly any author pagination and redirects useless paginated content.
400 installs5,288 downloads26/100 • Possibly abandoned
Display Name Author Permalink(5)•Updated 2953d ago
Replaces the username for author permalinks with the users display name. Returns a 404 if the author permalink using the actual username is used.
300 installs12,172 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Custom Empty Price for WooCommerce(5)•Updated 85d ago
Show text, a call to action or custom HTML when a product has no price set.
300 installs5,140 downloads61/100 • Actively maintained
WordPress Author Plugin Widget(9)•Updated 1879d ago
WordPress Author plugin widget displays a list of WordPress authors on your WordPress website using the widget area section
200 installs24,797 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
About Author(5)•Updated 18d ago
Display Blog Authors Information In Style you can publish blog users profile into any Page or Post in your WordPress sites.
200 installs68,537 downloads70/100 • Actively maintained
BookPress – For Book Authors(5)•Updated 521d ago
Books on WordPress made easy. Write and display your books: Add chapters, pages, table of contents, track word counts and more.
200 installs17,788 downloads28/100 • Possibly abandoned
Smart Custom Display Name(5)•Updated 805d ago
Allows you to change the value of "Display name publicly as" in user profiles to any string
200 installs10,483 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Social Author Bio(4)•Updated 4973d ago
Social Author Bio automatically adds an author bio box along with Gravatar and social icons on posts. Now with built in Google Author!
200 installs40,261 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
WP Default Author(4)•Updated 4654d ago
Changes the default author either gobally or for individual users.
200 installs4,870 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Simple Author Bio(2)•Updated 2103d ago
Plugin that shows the author's biography in the foot of the posts.
200 installs7,873 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned