Best author management plugins for WordPress
The most popular author management plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Default Post Author leads with 1K+ active installs, ahead of WP Author Report Free (10+). All 2 plugins tagged “author management” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 author management plugins
- 1.
Default Post AuthorThe most installed author management plugin, with 1K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 2.
WP Author Report Free10+ active installs. Rated 3.2 from 6 reviews, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
All 2 plugins tagged “author management”
Default Post Author
Up in the last 7 days:84#6,236by MonarchWP26 days ago
Easily set a default post author for new posts, pages and custom post types. Capability-aware, bulk update and WP-CLI support.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 24/day
WP Author Report Free
Up in the last 7 days:749#33,773by WPDeveloper9 years ago
"WP Author Report" is the only productivity plugin for WordPress which will generate detail report how authors are working.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.2(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day