Easily display your author/user profile info inside WordPress widget.
As of April 2026, Meks Smart Author Widget is a WordPress user plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 8 reviews. It has been downloaded 430K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: User Role Editor.
Simple plugin which allows you to display author/user info inside WordPress widget. Smart feature of this plugin is user/author “auto detection” which means that it can optionally show author of current post on single post templates or on specific author archive.
Smart Author Widget plugin is created by Meks
You can see Smart Author Widget live example on our Typology theme demo website
My theme didn’t come with an author box; so, I’m using this plugin.
This is an excellent plugin which works well on all devices!
This is an amazing plugin, period. Lots of widget options, from size of avatar to automatically detect author (by the posts they published – VERY COOL), from linking authors name to link showing all their posts in the author’s box! It’s a GREAT plugin. The ONLY thing I wish it had, that would have made it 6 stars (if that’s even possible LOL) would have been able to remove, else select NONE in “Choose author/user” drop down list. The Automatically Detect Author is too good, unto itself! 🙂 But just that one option, NONE in “Choose author/user” would have made this the most perfect of all author blocks out there. The reason why none, is I don’t want to show admin (me) on every page outside of actual posts (would rather not have it on pages, just actual posts). Great work, thank you for this awesome plugin! PS plugin IS RESPONSIVE (tested on multiple browsers, trust).
Simply not responsive out of the box.
This was the best plugin I could find for displaying an author profile in the sidebar.
Works well out of the box and is easily configurable. Looks good from the start.
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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