Best author plugins for WordPress

Edit Author Slug

#357

by Brandon Allen1 year ago

Allows an admin (or capable user) to edit the author slug of a user, and change the author base.

WP Meta and Date Remover

Up in the last 7 days:2#499

by prasadkirpekar5 months ago

Remove meta author and date information from posts and pages. Hide from Humans and Search engines.SEO friendly and most advance plugin.

Hide/Remove Metadata

Down in the last 7 days:1#1,239

by Catch Plugins5 months 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.

Disable Author Archives

Up in the last 7 days:21#1,473

by freemp2 months ago

Disable Author Archives completely removes author archives and makes the web server return status code 404 ('Not Found') instead.

Meks Smart Author Widget

Down in the last 7 days:1#1,688

by Meks2 years ago

Easily display your author/user profile info inside WordPress widget.

VK Post Author Display

#1,777

by Hidekazu Ishikawa2 months ago

Display to Post Author Information Box on bottom of the contents.

Starbox

Up in the last 7 days:1#1,821

by SEO Squirrly1 year ago

Starbox is the Author Box for Humans. Professional Themes to choose from, HTML5, Social Media Profiles, Google Authorship

WP Author, Date and Meta Remover

Up in the last 7 days:1#2,109

by Johnnie5 years 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!

Authors List

Down in the last 7 days:4#3,006

by WPKube11 months 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.

Guest Author

Down in the last 7 days:1#3,009

by WebFactory2 months ago

Add a guest author to any post without needing to register the guest author as a user on your site.

WP Custom Author URL

Down in the last 7 days:18#3,180

by Poodle Plugins7 months ago

Set a custom URL for your author name link, on a global or author-specific basis. Also redirects all author pages.

Author Avatars List/Block

Down in the last 7 days:11#3,586

by Paul Bearne3 months ago

Display lists of user avatars using widgets or shortcodes. With Gutenberg support.

WP Author Slug

Up in the last 7 days:6#4,156

by Konstantin Obenland2 months ago

Add a layer of security and prevent your login name from being shown in the author archive's URL.

Bulk Change Media Author

Down in the last 7 days:12#4,317

by Ruslan Mikhno3 years ago

Bulk change author for multiple media files, using the default WP Media Library.

Smart User Slug Hider

Up in the last 7 days:1#4,320

by WP User Manager15 days ago

Hide usernames in Author Pages URLs to enhance Security

(Simply) Guest Author Name

Down in the last 7 days:5#4,339

by A. Jones8 months 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

Remove Author Pages

Down in the last 7 days:42#4,411

by Vinicius Braz Pinto9 years ago

Remove author pages and link authors to home page

Author Bio Box

Down in the last 7 days:13#5,471

by Claudio Sanches5 years ago

Display a box with the author's biography in your WordPress

Change Author

Up in the last 7 days:15#5,846

by Martin Teley9 years ago

This plugin lets you assign non-authors as post author.

Author Image

Up in the last 7 days:8#5,935

by Denis de Bernardy9 years ago

Lets you easily add author images on your site.

cbnet Multi Author Comment Notification

Up in the last 7 days:16#6,112

by Chip Bennett10 years ago

Send comment notification and comment moderation emails to multiple users. Select users individually or by user role, or send emails to arbitrary emai …

Authors Widget

Up in the last 7 days:21#6,151

by flocsy9 years ago

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

SF Author Url Control

Down in the last 7 days:9#6,234

by Grégory Viguier10 years ago

Allows administrators or capable users to change the users profile url.

Author Filters

Down in the last 7 days:28#6,854

by Clarion Technologies5 years ago

Author filters plugin integrates an author filter drop down to sort listing on post, page, custom post type in admin.

Mooberry Book Manager

Up in the last 7 days:14#6,911

by mooberrydreams27 days 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.

Author Box WP Lens

Down in the last 7 days:21#7,128

by Netrr27 days ago

A plugin which provides an author box for your WordPress blog. Originally known as "Author Box for Divi."

Admin Page Notes

Down in the last 7 days:8#7,785

by Anadar8 months 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.

Change Author Link Structure

Down in the last 7 days:114#8,284

by wpyb2 months ago

To prevent that usernames are publically visible, the username in the author's permalink is replaced with the author's ID.

Comment Email Reply

Down in the last 7 days:34#8,396

by kilozwo11 years ago

Simply notifies comment-author via email if someone replies to his comment. Zero Configuration.

Hide Author Archive

Up in the last 7 days:17#8,524

by Tarosky Inc.23 days ago

Hide author archive URL of WordPress.

Product Author for WooCommerce

Down in the last 7 days:31#9,059

by Nitin Prakash2 months ago

Product Author for WooCommerce enables author functionality for Woocommerce Products, Author can be assigned to Woocommerce Product using this plugin

Custom Author Byline

Up in the last 7 days:3#9,094

by croakingtoad15 years 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 …

WP Author Security

Down in the last 7 days:21#9,610

by mgm security partners GmbH3 years ago

Protect against user enumeration attacks on author pages and other places where valid user names can be obtained.

Google SEO Pressor for Rich snippets

Down in the last 7 days:154#10,252

by Smackcoders Inc.,3 years ago

Enrich your WordPress website content with Google Structured Data and make it more SEO friendly.

SX No author Pagination

Down in the last 7 days:74#10,431

by Daniel Roch1 year ago

SX No author Pagination removes properly any author pagination and redirects useless paginated content.

Display Name Author Permalink

Down in the last 7 days:116#11,126

by Michael Torbert8 years 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.

Smart Custom Display Name

Down in the last 7 days:36#12,029

by WP User Manager16 days ago

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

About Author

Up in the last 7 days:8#12,704

by Weblizar - WordPress Themes & Plugin1 month ago

Display Blog Authors Information In Style you can publish blog users profile into any Page or Post in your WordPress sites.

Simple Author Bio

Down in the last 7 days:17#12,777

by jmarreros6 years ago

Plugin that shows the author's biography in the foot of the posts.

WP Google Authorship

Down in the last 7 days:31#12,925

by Mervin Praison1 year ago

Google Plus Profile Picture appear in Google Search. Very Easy to implement. Including Google authorship for multiple authors and multisite.

Overwrite Author Name

Down in the last 7 days:43#13,036

by Justin Fletcher2 years ago

Overwrite Author to a consistent name when publishing a post.

WP Default Author

Down in the last 7 days:72#13,369

by Birgir Erlendsson (birgire)13 years ago

Changes the default author either gobally or for individual users.

Redirect Author Pages

#13,671

by Arul Prasad J1 year ago

Redirect the author pages

HTML in Author Bio

Down in the last 7 days:15#13,779

by Abhik15 years ago

Enables the use of HTML formatting in Author Bio

Media Author

#14,000

by John Luetke14 years ago

Allows you to change the author of a piece of media

All-in-one Widget

Down in the last 7 days:351#14,193

by themeidol9 years ago

Add fundamental functionality to your WordPress sidebars with a set of proper widgets.

Fix Gravatar Alt Text & Title Tag

Down in the last 7 days:157#14,303

by Fixmysite1 year ago

Applies comment author name to Gravatar's Alt and Title tags in comments and author display name to Gravatars site-wide.

Change Product Author for WooCommerce

Up in the last 7 days:75#15,140

by Ollie Murphy11 years ago

This makes it easy to change the author assigned to a WooCommerce product post type.

Simple Comment Notification

Up in the last 7 days:387#15,203

by Beherit6 years ago

Sends an simply email notification to the comment author, when someone replies to his comment.

Display Authors Widget

Down in the last 7 days:161#15,437

by Sami Keijonen11 years ago

Display authors by role.