Best authorship plugins for WordPress
The most popular authorship plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Google Plus Authorship leads with 1K+ active installs, ahead of WP Google Authorship (200+) and Simple Google Authorship and Avatar (20+). All 8 plugins tagged “authorship” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 8 authorship plugins
- 1.
Google Plus AuthorshipThe most installed authorship plugin, with 1K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 8 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 2.
WP Google Authorship200+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 3.
Simple Google Authorship and Avatar20+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
- 4.
RankWise SEO WordPress Plugin20+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41.
- 5.
Disable comments with Google authorship10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
- 6.
Tessa Authorship10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.0.38.
- 7.
GooglePlus Multi-Authorship10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
- 8.
Hummint BadgeFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
All 8 plugins tagged “authorship”
Google Plus Authorship
Down in the last 7 days:10#6,616by mlazarov9 years ago
Add Google Plus Profile Picture to Google Search Results. Very Easy to implement! Google authorship for multiple authors
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.3(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP Google Authorship
Down in the last 7 days:45#12,948by Mervin Praison1 year ago
Google Plus Profile Picture appear in Google Search. Very Easy to implement. Including Google authorship for multiple authors and multisite.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Simple Google Authorship and Avatar
Up in the last 7 days:58#25,963by Mark-k13 years ago
Enables users to easily claim google authorship on their content and use their google profile picture as an avatar
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
RankWise SEO WordPress Plugin
Up in the last 7 days:440#27,707by webcijfers13 years ago
Contains the SEO core of rankwise.net. Scan the website, individual pages and posts. Contains an authorship check and analyses for Google+ profiles.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Disable comments with Google authorship
#40,399by Andon Ivanov13 years ago
A quick way to disable comments with Google authorship link. This protect your blog from members who want to get article authorship.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Tessa Authorship
Up in the last 7 days:1,144#42,414by ulihake12 years ago
Show author information on post types not depending on WordPress users for galleries, expositions, content offered for/by third parties, etc.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
GooglePlus Multi-Authorship
#46,520by Nimrod Flores12 years ago
GPMA provides a straightforward solution to properly add Google+ Authorship markup to the head of each post and page on a multi-authored site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hummint Badge
#65,291by Hummint2 months ago
Show a verifiable Hummint badge on posts and link readers to the public certificate of the writing process.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day