WordPress Authors Plugins

PublishPress Authors is the best plugin for adding authors, co-authors, multiple authors and guest authors to WordPress posts.

Assign multiple bylines to posts, pages, and custom post types with a search-as-you-type input box.

Hide usernames in Author Pages URLs to enhance Security

Easily handle authors' payments on a multi-author blog by computing posts' remuneration basing on admin defined rules.

Make up custom-tailored preview lists of the contents easily and place them in widget areas and post contents.

Authors Widget shows the list or cloud of the authors in the sidemenu.

Easily organize and display your portfolio of books.

Calculate your writing statistics on your WordPress site.

The Osom Author Pro plugin creates a library which allows you to add books to any WordPress theme.

A shortcode for displaying paginated lists of users.

This plugin lists all posts by Author, nested Categories and Title, allowing to place the lists in any page.

Create custom post lists based on options you choose from a form in a widget. Different types of lists, blog, portfolio, services pages. No coding.

Solves the co/multi-author problem without modifying the theme. Uses a custom taxonomy, "Byline," that replaces the Display Author.

Allows you to change the value of "Display name publicly as" in user profiles to any string

Author Recent Posts shows recent posts by an author on the posts written by the author as a responsive widget. This plugin is useful for multi-author …

This plugin is designed to send an email notification whenever a draft is saved.

Displays an unordered list of an author's latest posts.

Display your teammates anywhere on your WordPress site using this easy-to-use plugin.

A highly customizable widget that allows you to display the top authors of your website easily.

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

Display authors by role.

A widget to display a list of site authors.

This plugin lets provides a simple widget to list your blog's authors, including gravatar and post counts

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

A customizable authors list block that lets you showcase post authors, their feed links, and post counts.

Shows the authors page even if the author has no post.

The plugin add a widget and a shortcode in order to show authors of an article. It is compatible with Co-Authors Plus.

Create a "People Page" that displays a list of selected site users with photos, bios, titles, links and more.

Easily export or import your WordPress customizer settings!

Simply exclude all author posts from indexing it in SERPs.

Force all posts by users without Editor or higher role to be private

Adds a metabox to the menu admin page listing users so they can be more easily added as custom links to the WordPress Custom Menus

This widget shows a list of all of the users that have written content on your site, since a static or dynamic time specified by you.

Shortcode to show the authors that have posted more

Prevents people posting comments using the same name as a registered users display name.

Adds a checkbox to author profiles for redirecting to other parts of the site.