Turn a string, list, or array of author IDs and/or slugs into a list of links to the post archive for each author. Provides a widget and template tag.
As of April 2026, Linkify Authors is a WordPress link plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 6.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.3+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Top alternative: Custom Post Type Permalinks.
The plugin provides a widget called “Linkify Authors” as well as a template tag, c2c_linkify_authors(), which allow you to easily specify authors to list and how to list them. Authors are specified by either ID or slug. Each link will point to the post archive for each user. See other parts of the documentation for example usage and capabilities.
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Developer documentation can be found in DEVELOPER-DOCS.md. That documentation covers the template tag and hook provided by the plugin.
As an overview, this is the template tag provided by the plugin:
c2c_linkify_authors() : Display links to each of any number of authors specified via author IDs/slugs. You can customize text to show befor…| WordPress | 3.3+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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