Best author plugins for WordPress
225 plugins tagged “author” on WordPress.org, in its popular order and updated daily. Research this niche or see all plugins.
oDvut Author Bio
#45,460by enroxxa12 years ago
oDvut Author Bio is a simple plugin which will enable you to place blog author's bio anywhere in the blog.
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- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Latest Users Dashboard Widget
Down in the last 7 days:8,266#45,856by Clarion Technologies10 years ago
Latest Users Dashboard Widget extension integrates a welcome widget to display new users added to the system in a tabular format.
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- 10+
- Rating
- –
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- 0/day
SoJ Manage Posts By Author
Up in the last 7 days:1,556#45,913by sojweb15 years ago
Add a filter for author in the posts management screen.
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- 10+
- Rating
- –
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- 0/day

CC-Disable-Users
Down in the last 7 days:1,101#46,183by Clearcode1 month ago
This plugin allows to disable the access to WordPress Dashboard for selected user accounts.
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- 10+
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- –
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- 0/day
Plugin Name
Down in the last 7 days:4,498#46,651by giangel8416 years ago
This plugin allow in a multi auhtor blog, to lock posts by editor permission level.
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- 10+
- Rating
- –
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- 0/day

Global Food Book's Author Biography Widget
Up in the last 7 days:901#46,813by kengimel11 years ago
This makes it easy to setup a brief synopsis of the author's biography on the sidebar. Best used in food & cook theme or woo-themes.
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- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Bangla Author Bio
Down in the last 7 days:6,977#47,040by arifnezami16 years ago
Simply adds a author bio after every post automatically in Bangla.
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- 10+
- Rating
- –
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- 0/day

Content Protect By Time Lock
Down in the last 7 days:6,976#47,165by MTserve12 years ago
Content display management regulated by time locks.
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- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Author Box
Up in the last 7 days:322#47,259by Vignesh Pichamani11 years ago
Author Box Plugin is Simple and Useful Plugin which anyone can need it. Using this Plugin you can show the author information in a box under the post …
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- 10+
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- –
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- 0/day
Get Author's Comments
Down in the last 7 days:12,007#47,334by Mehdi Kabab17 years ago
Get Author's Comments displays or retrieves a list of comments posted by a user.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
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- 0/day

Show Authors in Page Lists
#47,363by oqm46 years ago
Allows developers to display author names within wp_list_pages-generated page lists.
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- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
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- 0/day
WP-Whoami
Down in the last 7 days:233#47,394by Dennis Ploetner11 years ago
Just another widget to show a photo, a bio and some social media links with nice webfont-icons
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- 10+
- Rating
- –
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- 0/day

Author Signature
Down in the last 7 days:8,800#47,404by Zakir Sajib2 years ago
This plugin appends the author's signature to blog posts or/and pages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Linkify Authors
Down in the last 7 days:3,960#47,575by Scott Reilly1 year ago
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.
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- 10+
- Rating
- –
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- 0/day
XE Author List Widget
#47,595by xieno11 years ago
XE Author List Widget Plugin displays list of authors. It also displays authors Email avatars. XE Author List Widget Plugin displays list of authors.
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- 10+
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- –
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- 0/day

WP Author Ranking
#47,611by minojiro12 years ago
WP Author Ranking the wordpress plugin provides ranking of the popular blog authors. Results are depends on page viewing numbers.
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- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
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- 0/day
Author Categories
Down in the last 7 days:1,125#47,631by Makis17 years ago
A wrapper of the default 'wp_list_categories' to present an author's menu, when in the author pages.
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- 10+
- Rating
- –
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- 0/day

RWC Author Status
Down in the last 7 days:10,451#47,722by Realwebcare1 year ago
Display author status easily in WordPress posts, letting authors share their thoughts and updates on every post.
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- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
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- 0/day
WP Compteur
Down in the last 7 days:848#47,892by resoneo15 years ago
Compte le nombre d'articles refusés pour chaque contributeur et passe les contributeurs trop souvent refusés en abonnés.
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- 10+
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- –
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- 0/day
Display Current Author on Menu
Down in the last 7 days:2,233#47,894by Riyad Arefin10 years ago
Tiny plugin that allows you to display current author's name(Display Name) on menu.
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- 10+
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- –
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- 0/day
Author Page Comments
#48,028by harrysudana17 years ago
GNU/GPL AuthorComment is a plugins that help to administrate Comment in Author Page as like a testimonial for author.
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- 10+
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- –
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- 0/day

Author Admin View Archive Link
Down in the last 7 days:3,112#48,112by Topher7 years ago
Creates a View Archive link in the list of authors on the Users admin page.
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- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Avatars Meta Box
Down in the last 7 days:10,413#48,143by Justin Tadlock11 years ago
Select your post author in style. Choose post authors by avatar instead of a select drop-down.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Multisite Author Bio
Up in the last 7 days:21,811#49,001by codeadapted10 months ago
Multisite Author Bio allows you to easily manage unique user biographical information across each site in a WordPress Multisite network.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
ACS ADVANCED SEARCH
Up in the last 7 days:2,950#49,858by ritesh1439 years ago
Search and Filtering for Posts and Pages,author, Categories, Taxonomies, Post Dates, Post Dates Range and Post Types.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

No Author Redirect
Up in the last 7 days:17,101#52,541by keithws7 years ago
Stop redirects from URLs containing the author query parameter and user ID to permalinks with usernames to make it a little harder to iterate through …
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- <10
- Rating
- –
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- 0/day

Depict
Up in the last 7 days:2,124#54,279by tradesouthwest7 years ago
Adds several new fields to User Profile which can be displayed on a custom widget or page.
- Installs
- <10
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- –
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- 0/day

EEAT Author & Reviewer by Gyaner
#54,766by gyaner5 months ago
Display "Written by" and "Approved by" author boxes with profiles, social links, and JSON-LD structured data for EEAT signals.
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- <10
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- –
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- 0/day
Rathly Profile Avatars
Up in the last 7 days:10,730#54,819by Rathly Marketing4 months ago
Replace standard Gravatar with custom uploaded images for author avatars.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
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- 0/day

Block Registered Usernames in Comments
#56,497by Marc Tönsing5 years ago
You want to block comment nicknames and email adresses of registered users? This plugin solves this problem once and for all.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Readova Core
Up in the last 7 days:1,875#61,136by ByteJutsu8 months ago
Companion plugin for the Readova theme. Adds Chapters, demo import, and setup tools.
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- <10
- Rating
- –
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- 0/day
The post author info
Up in the last 7 days:271#61,168by Artem Sannikov8 years ago
Плагин «The post author info» выводит информацию об авторе записи из профиля в панели управления WordPress.
- Installs
- <10
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- –
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- 0/day

API info for Plugins & Themes from WP.ORG
Down in the last 7 days:7,647#63,625by Puvox Software18 days ago
[ ✅ 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐔𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐒 b𝓎 𝒫𝓊𝓋𝑜𝓍 ] Show Plugins & Themes information on your site, from WP.ORG API
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- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
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- 0/day
PublisherKits BioBuilder
#64,172by Black and White25 days ago
Stop leaving author profiles blank. BioBuilder automatically finds and fills in bios, social handles, and job titles — no manual research needed.
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- <10
- Rating
- –
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- 0/day
Author Bio & Social
Up in the last 7 days:7,190#64,759by Md Rasel5 years ago
A WordPress author bio plugin that adds an extremeley flexible, custom about the author box below your posts for single and multiple authors.
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- <10
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- –
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- 0/day
Authors By Latest Post
#65,466by Mayo Moriyama8 years ago
Display writer list of your blog in order of their last published date and time.
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- <10
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- –
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- 0/day

WAPP Author Hub
#66,100by UASTEND GROUP2 months ago
Author box with E-E-A-T SEO schema, custom author page, subscriber system, notification bell and scheduled email digests.
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- <10
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- 0/day
Nice Author Box
Down in the last 7 days:12,163#66,691by crawlcenter5 years ago
The Nice Author Box plugin adds a customizable and responsive author box to posts on your website. It comes with 13+ customization options and is easy …
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- <10
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- 0/day

Pinoydev Admin Post Author Search Filter
Up in the last 7 days:1,130#66,862by Romell Ulgasan3 months ago
Adds an author dropdown filter to WordPress admin post list screens.
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- <10
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- 0/day
Author Bind
Down in the last 7 days:2,211#67,210by Jarl André Hübenthal9 years ago
Author Bind is a plugin that lets you configure a User ID to override all future added or edited posts/pages.
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- <10
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- –
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- 0/day
Guest User
Down in the last 7 days:4,535#68,007by Palasthotel GmbH12 days ago
Label users as guests: they can be credited as post authors, but cannot sign in.
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- <10
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- 0/day

Writer Strict Requirements
Down in the last 7 days:11,239#68,517by Hoonsung Lee2 years ago
Prevent authors from uploading posts without fulfilling requirements.
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- <10
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- 0/day

SlugPilot
#69,049by Varun Kukreja4 months ago
Allows an admin (or capable user) to edit the author slug of a user, and change the author base.
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- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day

Nzymes
Down in the last 7 days:17,312#69,227by Andrea Ercolino9 years ago
Boost your posts with Nzymes injections. Safely use PHP in posts' title, excerpt, and content. WordPress 4.7+ PHP 5.6+
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- <10
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- 0/day
WP Search Username
#70,464by speedy2228 years ago
Search every username from the author in your Wordpress site.
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- <10
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- 0/day

Zidithemes Text Image
Down in the last 7 days:4,586#71,291by Zidithemes6 years ago
Zidithemes Text Image is designed to improve the layout of client text images, team, profile and works with the Gutenberg editor.
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- <10
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- 0/day
Design Cart Cloud Timeline
#71,487by Paweł Nosko3 days ago
Sticky author biography with animated cloud timeline. Embed with shortcode.
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- <10
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- –
- Downloads
- 46/day
Focsd Hide Author Names
#72,895by focsd10 months ago
Hide displayed author names and optionally disable author archives.
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- <10
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- –
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- 0/day

Multi Author Donation
#73,184by Ziyad Bachalany1 month ago
🌟 Enable authors on your multi-author site to receive direct donations via PayPal or Stripe from their bio, with easy admin controls and shortcodes.
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- <10
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- 0/day
Sectorize
Down in the last 7 days:10,321#73,343by Marg1 month ago
Transform author archives into elegant sector-based content organization with automatic SEO optimization. ---
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- <10
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- 0/day