Best biography plugins for WordPress
The most popular biography plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Visual User Description Editor leads with 1K+ active installs, ahead of Visual Editor Biography (900+) and Simple Author Bio (200+). All 17 plugins tagged “biography” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 biography plugins
- 1.
Visual User Description EditorThe most installed biography plugin, with 1K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.1.0.
- 2.
Visual Editor Biography900+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 12 reviews, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.3.2.
- 3.
Simple Author Bio200+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.24.
- 4.
WP Author Profile Widget100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 5.
Author Bio Shortcode90+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.0.38.
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Biographical Info Paragraphed70+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.1.28.
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Rich Text Biography50+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.9.2.
- 8.
Individual Multisite Author30+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 13 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
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Short Bio Widget30+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
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Remove Profile Bio10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
All 17 plugins tagged “biography”
Visual User Description Editor
Down in the last 7 days:13#6,274by zwwuu4 years ago
Replaces the user "Biographical Info" profile field with a TinyMCE visual editor.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Visual Editor Biography
Down in the last 7 days:56#7,225by Kevin Leary14 years ago
Replaces the author "Biographical Info" profile field with a TinyMCE visual editor.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.8(12)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Simple Author Bio
Down in the last 7 days:17#12,777by jmarreros6 years ago
Plugin that shows the author's biography in the foot of the posts.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Author Profile Widget
Down in the last 7 days:23#15,778by B.M. Rafiul Alam2 years ago
Add WP Author Profile Widget with easy way.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Author Bio Shortcode
Down in the last 7 days:75#17,093by Philip John12 years ago
Provides the [author_bio] shortcode for embedding the bio of an author anywhere in the post/page content.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Biographical Info Paragraphed
Down in the last 7 days:222#19,044by Kamrul Hasan7 years ago
Biographical Info Paragraphed is a plug-in for Wordpress that allows Wordpress to add additional HTML tags like p, br, rel="author" etc.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Rich Text Biography
Down in the last 7 days:770#20,991by ternstyle14 years ago
The Rich Text Biography Plugin allows you and your Wordpress users to edit your profile biographies using Wordpress' built in WYSIWYG editor.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Individual Multisite Author
Up in the last 7 days:198#22,879by Thomas Maier2 months ago
This plugin enables individual author descriptions for each single blog in a multisite network.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(13)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Short Bio Widget
Up in the last 7 days:29#23,188by Nasir Ahmed10 years ago
Its a widget that collects your short biography and show into wordpress sidebar area. User can add gravatar, name, short personal details, all common …
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Remove Profile Bio
#29,000by RiverCityGraphix14 years ago
The Remove Profile Bio plugin allows you to quickly remove the biographical information field from the edit profile page on your site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
BP Summary Page
#34,058by ktraff13 years ago
Need to add an online summary to BuddyPress? We developed a plugin that is small and compact just for you.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 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.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Tessa Authorship
#48,089by 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
Author Bio & Social
#58,173by 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.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Design Cart Cloud Timeline
#59,286by Paweł Nosko3 days ago
Sticky author biography with animated cloud timeline. Embed with shortcode.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 68/day
PublisherKits BioBuilder
Down in the last 7 days:7,881#71,721by Black and White24 days ago
Stop leaving author profiles blank. BioBuilder automatically finds and fills in bios, social handles, and job titles — no manual research needed.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day