Co-Authors Plus
Assign multiple bylines to posts, pages, and custom post types with a search-as-you-type input box.
3.5(77 reviews)
·20K+ active installs·Updated 5 months agoAs of April 2026, Co-Authors Plus is a WordPress users plugin with 20K+ active installations and a 3.5/5 rating from 77 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.4M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.9+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: User Switching.
3.5/577 reviews
20K+active installs
1.4M+total downloads
17 yearssince 2009
Overview
Assign multiple bylines to posts, pages, and custom post types via a search-as-you-type input box. Co-authored posts appear on a co-author’s archive page and in their feed. Co-authors may edit the posts they are associated with, and co-authors who are contributors may only edit posts if they have not been published (as is core behavior).
Add writers as bylines without creating WordPress user accounts. Simply create a guest author profile for the writer and assign the byline as you normally would.
On the frontend, use the Co-Authors Plus template tags to list co-authors anywhere you’d normally list the author.
For more detailed documentation refer to the GitHub Wiki for this plugin.
Co-Authors Plus is an almost complete rewrite of the Co-Authors plugin originally developed by W…
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Ratings & Reviews
3.577 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Great plugin – but support sucks
by jroselarsen·1 year ago
Would be a 5 star.
But since reporting an error for more than a month ago, nothing has happened.
Have to keep previous version to avoid errors.
(Not possible for co-authors to edit posts without error)
Would be sorry to find another plugin, since this seems to be the best.
BR Johnny
Several issues, little support
by audunmb·1 year ago
The latest update with new blocks adds much functionality, but unfortunately the plugin has some bugs and seems to be poorly supported. It’s a volunteer effort mostly, and there doesn’t seem to be an active maintainer. Currently nearly all support questions in the forums are unanswered and lots of issues on GitHub are open as well. I wish there was an active maintainer.
Still I prefer this plugin over the alternatives which are a too bloated. With bug-fixes and active support this would be great.
Excelente plugin
by vytecolombia·2 years ago
Simplemente si quieres agregar varios autores a una entrada o simplemente cambiarlos, este plugin lo soluciona de una manera excelente, intuitiva y sin tanto complique.
Muchas gracias a los desarrolladores, me ha servido bastante. Los quiero mucho.
Perfect plugin, great support
by IdeFixx·2 years ago
Plugin also works with Twenty Twenty-Three theme with shortcodes, check “Shortcode breaks HTML” in the Support section.
Not ready enough for usage
by ivan2343·2 years ago·1 reply
After removing this plugin all my posts were broken and I had to recover site from a backup.
Also the newly registered taxonomy here is not public, which leads to not being able to view other posts of a particular author.
The plugin needs improvement.
Download Trends
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.9+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.7
54.4%
v3.6
19.6%
v3.5
14.1%
v3.4
7.5%
Other
4.4%
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