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WordPress Author Plugins Collection

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Here in this article, we have showcased the WordPress author plugins.

Simply Guest Author Name

The plugin creates a post and override the author name with one or more names or text.

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Author and Post Statistic Widgets

The plugin is an easy solution to display authors’ activity and popular posts with statistic information in sidebar widgets.

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About WordPress Authors

The plugin display WordPress blog author complete information in stylish mode.

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Edit Author Slug

The plugin allows an admin (or capable user) to edit the author slug of a user, and change the author base.

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Guerrilla’s Author Box

The plugin adds an author box to the end of your posts, showing off the authors’ name, description, website link and gravatar powered avatar.

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WP Author Box Lite

The plugin give identity to your blog posts, pages and custom post types! Author Box Lite creates responsive profile and latest posts box to increase reader engagement. This also automatically adds Google+ profile authorship.

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Sexy Author Bio

The plugin adds a sexy, custom about the author box below your posts for single and multiple authors.

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Author Image

The plugin lets you easily add author images on your site.

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Displaying All Authors On One Single Page

While there are many plugins available out there which helps you having author box on your blog representing Author’s byline, headshot and social media links but sometimes you as an administrator or an editor want more than that. You wish to have a single page displaying all your authors.

Author Avatars List

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In order to begin the process of displaying your all authors on one single page, first start by installing and activating the plugin name Author Avatars List. This plugin makes it possible for you to display lists of user avatars on your blog while it also allows you to insert single avatars for blog users or any email address into a post or page.

Not only has this, but an Avatar lists can be inserted into your sidebar by adding a widget or into posts/pages by using a shortcode. The plugin comes with a tinymce editor plugin which makes inserting shortcodes very easy.

Both shortcode and widget can be configured to:

  • Show a custom title (widget only)
  • Only show specific user groups and/or hide certain users
  • Limit the number of users shown
  • Change the sort order of users or show in random order
  • Adjust the size of user avatars
  • Optionally show a user’s name or biography
  • Show users from the current blog, all blogs or a selection of blogs (on WPMU/Multisite)
  • Group users by their blog (when showing from multiple blogs), and show the blog name above each grouping (experimental feature).
  • Supports users from co-authors, BBpress and BuddyPress
  • The shortcode can page the avatars for large sets add a page_size to the shortcode e.g. “page_size=30”

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Best WordPress Plugins For Authors

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If you are having a blog set on WordPress content management system, then there will be definite chances that you write frequently. Even if you do write just once or twice a week or a month’s time, you probably be looking onto several WordPress plugins which will let you improve your blog. Here with this article, I have collected some of the best available WordPress plugins for authors.

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Co-Authors Plus

The plugin lets assign multiple byline to posts, pages and custom post types through a search-as-you-type input box. The Co-authored posts appeared on a co-author’s archive page and in their feed.

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Author+ (Lite)

The plugin adds an “Extended Author Bio” to be displayed instead of the User Descriptions in multi-author-blog’s Author Profiles.

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Author Image(s)

The plugin will display image (if present) and/or name for the author of a post, or for all authors on the blog.

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Author Spotlight (Widget)

A Sidebar widget to display the Author(s) profile on any Page or Post along with Social web links.

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Author Box Reloaded

The plugin adds an author box to your blog. It is fast and easy and fully configurable.

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Edit Author Slug

The plugin allows an admin (or capable user) to edit the author slug of a user, and change the author base.

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Post Author

The plugin add name of author – good if you have multiple authors – at the beginning or end of content / excerpt / home / archive category, with lots of options.

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Social Author Bio

The plugin automatically adds an author bio box along with Gravatar and social icons on posts. Now with built in Google Author.

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KNR Author List Widget

The plugin displays a list of authors, contributors, editors, and administrators on the blog as an ordered list, unordered list, or a dropdown list.

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