WordPress authors plugins

PublishPress Authors is the best plugin for adding authors, co-authors, multiple authors and guest authors to WordPress posts.

Assign multiple bylines to posts, pages, and custom post types with a search-as-you-type input box.

Count the words on your WordPress site instantly.

Use a shortcode to display a list or grid of post authors (or any other user role) and links to their post archives page.

Multi-column Tag Map will display tags, pages, posts, categories, custom post types, authors and taxonomies in a visually logical way similiar to that …

Hide usernames in Author Pages URLs to enhance Security

Make up custom-tailored preview lists of the contents easily and place them in widget areas and post contents.

Easily handle authors' payments on a multi-author blog by computing posts' remuneration basing on admin defined rules.

The Osom Author Pro plugin creates a library which allows you to add books to any WordPress theme.

A shortcode for displaying paginated lists of users.

Easily organize and display your portfolio of books.

Authors Widget shows the list or cloud of the authors in the sidemenu.

Calculate your writing statistics on your WordPress site.

This plugin lists all posts by Author, nested Categories and Title, allowing to place the lists in any page.

Allows you to change the value of "Display name publicly as" in user profiles to any string

Create custom post lists based on options you choose from a form in a widget. Different types of lists, blog, portfolio, services pages. No coding.

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

Restrict on which categories a user can post. Just that!

Turn your website into a book marketing machine! TotallyBooked allows you to add books, purchase buttons, and extras to your site in minutes.

Display your teammates anywhere on your WordPress site using this easy-to-use plugin.

A highly customizable widget that allows you to display the top authors of your website easily.

Display authors by role.

Replaces the default WordPress Author dropdown with a meta box that allows you to select the author via Autocomplete.

A Sidebar widget to display the Author(s) profile on any Page or Post along with Social web links.

Author Recent Posts shows recent posts by an author on the posts written by the author as a responsive widget. This plugin is useful for multi-author …

Displays an unordered list of an author's latest posts.

This plugin is designed to send an email notification whenever a draft is saved.

A widget to display a list of site authors.

This plugin lets provides a simple widget to list your blog's authors, including gravatar and post counts

Display image (if present) and/or name for the author of a post, or for all authors on the blog.

WordPress Author / User Image lets you set the author image.

Write your next book from the comfort of the WordPress dashboard.

Displays an unordered list of an author's latest posts with content.

The plugin add a widget and a shortcode in order to show authors of an article. It is compatible with Co-Authors Plus.

Shows the authors page even if the author has no post.

List site contributors and authors.

Create a "People Page" that displays a list of selected site users with photos, bios, titles, links and more.

Sidebar widget that displays the avatar of all of the authors on your blog in grid form.

Easily export or import your WordPress customizer settings!

A plugin which enables you to get latest posts by authors, categories and tags, with featured images, excerpt, works for custom post types as well

Simply exclude all author posts from indexing it in SERPs.

A customizable authors list block that lets you showcase post authors, their feed links, and post counts.

This plugin is used to list all the authors based on their recent activity / Post as widget.

Blog Authors is a WordPress plugin that allows you to display your site’s team members, and authors to embed their author card.

Discover and appreciate your blog’s most popular authors, a simple and powerful addon for Top 10 - Popular Posts for WordPress.

This widget shows a list of all of the users that have written content on your site, since a static or dynamic time specified by you.

Force all posts by users without Editor or higher role to be private

GT Post Approval adds "Approve/Reject" buttons visible just for administrators and editors in the Menage > Posts page.

This plugin will create a page where authors, editors and administrators can communicate with their team.

Post Co-Authors plugin allows you to select more then one authors in any post or custom post type.

Adds a checkbox to author profiles for redirecting to other parts of the site.

Adds a metabox to the menu admin page listing users so they can be more easily added as custom links to the WordPress Custom Menus

Prevents people posting comments using the same name as a registered users display name.

Shortcode to show the authors that have posted more

Plugin provides a widget for displaying avatars of registered users.

Export Comment Authors lets you extract the Names, Email Addresses and more of your Comment Authors into a CSV file.

Counts the number of comments for each user, who has been logged in at the time of commenting.

Turn a string, list, or array of author IDs and/or slugs into a list of links to the post archive for each author. Provides a widget and template tag.

Display information about the post author automatically or using a shortcode.

Allows listing of authors who are active or inactive within a defined recent period of time.