Browse and compare 195 author plugins. Data updated daily from official WordPress.org sources.
As of April 2026 — 58,546 plugins tracked
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Allows an admin (or capable user) to edit the author slug of a user, and change the author base.
Remove meta author and date information from posts and pages. Hide from Humans and Search engines.SEO friendly and most advance plugin.
Hide/Remove Metadata is a free WordPress plugin that helps you hide author and published date either by CSS or PHP from your website effortlessly.
Easily display your author/user profile info inside WordPress widget.
Display to Post Author Information Box on bottom of the contents.
Starbox is the Author Box for Humans. Professional Themes to choose from, HTML5, Social Media Profiles, Google Authorship
Disable Author Archives completely removes author archives and makes the web server return status code 404 ('Not Found') instead.
Don't need the post date and author meta data on your pages? Install WP Author, Date and Meta Remover and its gone. It's that easy!
Set a custom URL for your author name link, on a global or author-specific basis. Also redirects all author pages.
Use a shortcode to display a list or grid of post authors (or any other user role) and links to their post archives page.
Add a guest author to any post without needing to register the guest author as a user on your site.
Display lists of user avatars using widgets or shortcodes. With Gutenberg support.
Remove author pages and link authors to home page
Hide usernames in Author Pages URLs to enhance Security
Bulk change author for multiple media files, using the default WP Media Library.
Add a layer of security and prevent your login name from being shown in the author archive's URL.
Create a post and override the author name with one or more names or text. You can also create a link for the author name field
A plugin which provides an author box for your WordPress blog. Originally known as "Author Box for Divi."
Allows administrators or capable users to change the users profile url.
Author filters plugin integrates an author filter drop down to sort listing on post, page, custom post type in admin.
Authors Widget shows the list or cloud of the authors in the sidemenu.
Display a box with the author's biography in your WordPress
Sell books via Amazon and other retailers directly from your author website with this easy-to-use system. Creates book pages, widgets, and book grids.
Send comment notification and comment moderation emails to multiple users. Select users individually or by user role, or send emails to arbitrary emai …
This plugin lets you assign non-authors as post author.
Lets you easily add author images on your site.
Gives administrators the ability to add notes to posts of any post type (including pages) that are prominently displayed for users editing the site.
To prevent that usernames are publically visible, the username in the author's permalink is replaced with the author's ID.
Product Author for WooCommerce enables author functionality for Woocommerce Products, Author can be assigned to Woocommerce Product using this plugin
Simply notifies comment-author via email if someone replies to his comment. Zero Configuration.
Protect against user enumeration attacks on author pages and other places where valid user names can be obtained.
Hide author archive URL of WordPress.
Showcase your books in Grid, Slider, Filter & Flip layouts. GS Books Showcase is the ultimate book library plugin for WordPress.
Allows you to add an author name and link to the byline, other than the actual logged in user, without that custom author having to have a WordPress a …
Tested up to 6.7.1 The WIP Progress Bar plugin allows writers and authors to display beautiful progress bars on their WordPress websites via a Widget …
Enrich your WordPress website content with Google Structured Data and make it more SEO friendly.