Best author plugins for WordPress

Private Notes

Up in the last 7 days:739#29,359

by noahcoad14 years ago

Lets an author keep private notes with a post.

Advanced Author Bio

#29,858

by Abhik14 years ago

Adds a short author bio after every single post on your blog. Also, enables HTML formatting tags in author description and adds Facebook, Twitter, Goo …

NFCBC SEO Plugin Add-on

Down in the last 7 days:259#29,957

by fob17 years ago

NFCBC SEO Plugin Add-on is an administration tool for follow and nofollow comment moderation.

Leenkat Author Autocomplete

Up in the last 7 days:700#30,033

by Fajr Yassin1 month ago

Search and assign WordPress users or guest authors faster in the Classic Editor and Block Editor.

Simple Author Box

Up in the last 7 days:300#30,330

by Eugen Paun16 years ago

Adds a simple author box below the articles on single page.

Notifications to all Administrators

Up in the last 7 days:845#30,595

by Mehdi Kabab17 years ago

Enable moderation requests and notifications by email to all administrators.

Wp Subcribe Author

Down in the last 7 days:190#30,789

by gchokeen10 years ago

Wp Subscribe Author plugin is help subscriber to follow his/her favorite author.

Post Co-Authors

Down in the last 7 days:320#31,155

by itcoderr9 years ago

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

Archive Pages in Search Lite

Down in the last 7 days:441#31,407

by mkhaledche4 years ago

Displays archive pages for categories, tag, author, custom post types, custom taxonomies archives when searching for them.

Cool Author Box

Up in the last 7 days:298#32,444

by Morten Rand-Hendriksen16 years ago

Adds a stylish author box with author name, bio, Gravatar and links after the content in posts and/or pages.

Plugin Name

#32,901

by Jared Harbour15 years ago

Allows administrators to modify a users author url from their profile page.

Age Shortcode

#33,150

by Tobias Kraft8 years ago

EN: Insert Author Age per Shortcode DE: Alter des Autors per Shortcode einfügen

Comment Author Role Badge

Down in the last 7 days:1,312#33,236

by Sparanoid28 days ago

Displays a user badge next to the comment author name based on author's role.

LAPDI Authors Note

Down in the last 7 days:569#33,319

by Let A Pro Do IT!3 months ago

Author's Note allows you to add author's notes and after-thoughts to your blog posts and pages.

Popular Authors

Up in the last 7 days:179#34,333

by Ajay6 days ago

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

Retain Author

Down in the last 7 days:1,163#34,532

by David Powell14 years ago

Prevent mixing authors in your next and previous post links.

Additional Authors

#34,677

by Palasthotel GmbH28 days ago

Lets you add more than one author to your posts.

Big Bio Box

Down in the last 7 days:228#34,752

by kevin heath12 years ago

Adds an additional bio box with tinymce editor into the profile page and swaps the default user description in author.php with the new formatted bio.

SOGO Author's Recent Posts

Down in the last 7 days:1,542#34,815

by SOGO8 years ago

Simple widget to show author's recent post, support RTL

Display SSH Keys

#35,476

by Robert Sim11 years ago

A simple plugin to show public keys of the authors.

Multiple Editors

Up in the last 7 days:10,280#35,509

by Kaspars12 years ago

Allow multiple editors and contributors per post or page. Also enable contributors and authors to upload files and add new pages by default.

Author Tag Cloud

#35,773

by kegentile15 years ago

Creates a template tag to create an author specific tag cloud and creates a new permalink structure to drill down into content by author and tag.

CW Author Info

Up in the last 7 days:4,545#36,015

by antocara14 years ago

Add a box with information about the author of each post after post, include a widget in which appear a list of all components of the blog

Author Profile Image

Up in the last 7 days:3,802#37,191

by anik.newaz11 years ago

Adds an author image uploader to the profile page.

Stylish Top Author Widget

Up in the last 7 days:8,678#37,218

by Obaid Hossain5 months ago

Display your top WordPress authors with avatar, bio, and post count in a clean, modern, and lightweight widget.

Author Periodic Report

#38,406

by Shlomi Turjeman13 years ago

This plugin reports to the admin on posts amount of author in specified period of time.

Email Author On Publish

Up in the last 7 days:8,004#39,414

by Coen Jacobs14 years ago

Emails author when pending post is published.

Author Bio Plus

Up in the last 7 days:87#39,482

by Teja Amilineni12 years ago

Author Bio Plus displays author information in a box at the end of the post.

Author Box Reloaded Pack

#40,673

by Lopo Lencastre de Almeida12 years ago

Adds the Author Box Reloaded External Contact plugins. REQUIRES Author Box Reloaded 2.0.3 or greater.

Author Change Notifier

Down in the last 7 days:2,339#40,741

by abdullah8215 years ago

Author Change Notifier (ACN): If you run a business directory or a classifieds website and you want to give the advertizers the ability to claim other …

Link Publishers

Up in the last 7 days:2,084#40,837

by linkpublishers1 year ago

Link Publishers allows the Link Publishers team to publish articles as an Author, and notifies the site admin whenever a new article is published.

Rate this Author

Down in the last 7 days:3,030#41,490

by Tech9logy Creators5 years ago

This is a very simple and lightweight Plugin for rating authors by visitors.

OldShatterGeek's Hide Author

#41,498

by oldshattergeek8 years ago

Little plug-in that redirects everybody that is using the /?author=1 query parameter trick to your homepage.

Book Author Bio

Up in the last 7 days:2,035#41,621

by Best WP Developer2 years ago

The “Book Author Bio” plugin displays the author profile with name, designation, and social media links in 15+ designs.

Message to Author

Up in the last 7 days:2,693#41,797

by Pathu Sutariya4 years ago

Message to Author allows users to message to the author of the post, products, page or any custom posts. Which can be useful to give feedback about pa …

Display Author Option

Down in the last 7 days:6,300#41,835

by ctltwp14 years ago

This plugin enables you to overwrite how the author is being displayed. By overwriting the the_author filter.

New Tab Redirect Plus

#41,848

by Ridham6 years ago

Stop any fake data sending visitors away - By default, Open WordPress Comment Links in New Tab/Window (add target=”_blank”) tab or window with: New Ta …

Diffen

Down in the last 7 days:1,542#42,018

by jasuja12 years ago

The Diffen comparison plugin allows Wordpress bloggers to easily search for and embed comparisons on their blog. You can compare anything on Diffen ri …

Author Popup

#42,409

by karthikeyan_blaze15 years ago

A CSS popup will appear by hovering on an author link with user profile & social links.

Sunray Author Manager

Down in the last 7 days:2,419#42,416

by Matthew1 year ago

A versatile plugin for writers to highlight their work, with a carousel slider and bibliography.

Cotton Framework

#42,770

by w3prodigy16 years ago

The Cotton Framework provides a Cross-Browser Standards Compliant XHTML / CSS framework.

CC User Data

Down in the last 7 days:4,293#43,605

by Evan Mullins15 years ago

Add certain fields and images to your user profiles. Also gives access via shortcode to display a list of users/authors anywhere on your site.

Chief Editor

Down in the last 7 days:4,299#43,687

by termel6 years ago

Helps wordpress multisite "chief editor" to manage all drafts, comments, authors and "ready for publication" sends across the netw …

Author Social Links

Up in the last 7 days:1,945#43,705

by TyCam14 years ago

Adds 16x16 social media icon links next to the author's name, unique to each author.

Author Stats

Up in the last 7 days:4,613#43,724

by dk234355t612 years ago

Plugin for WordPress displays various author metrics.

Advanced Author Exposed

#43,765

by b-lame16 years ago

The plugin links a hidden DIV (layer) with information about the author to any item on a page.

Tui's Author Intro For Post

#43,789

by stephenbaugh18 years ago

This plugin has been written to insert an Author introduction to each post, based on its post Author and their bio etc.

wp-AuthorComment

Down in the last 7 days:8,595#44,095

by kingjeffrey17 years ago

Uniquely style the post author's comments.

Mundoon Taxonomy Filter Checkbox

#45,010

by raphaelnikson10 years ago

Quickly create taxonomies filters for custom post types templates!

About Author Box

Down in the last 7 days:5,019#45,362

by WPKube3 months ago

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