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Meks Smart Author Widget

Easily display your author/user profile info inside WordPress widget.

By Meks·User·Free
4.5(8 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 1 year ago
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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.

4.5/58 reviews
10K+active installs
430K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014

Overview

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.

Features

  • Flexible display options
  • Auto detect post author on single post and author templates
  • Custom avatar size
  • Link avatar image to author archive (optional)
  • Link user display name to author archive (optional)
  • Replace widget title with user display name (optional)

Smart Author Widget plugin is created by Meks

Live example?

You can see Smart Author Widget live example on our Typology theme demo website

Read full description on WordPress.org

Screenshots

Ratings & Reviews

4.58 reviews
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Recent Reviews

Best; works well!
by naveenyouth·2 years ago

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!

Damn near perfect!
by JJNW·6 years ago·2 replies

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).

  • This topic was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by JJNW.
  • This topic was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by JJNW.
Not responsive
by brandontyler024·8 years ago·1 reply

Simply not responsive out of the box.

Thumbs up!
by jrcollins·9 years ago

This was the best plugin I could find for displaying an author profile in the sidebar.

works well
by sublines·9 years ago

Works well out of the box and is easily configurable. Looks good from the start.

Download Trends

Today: 23Yesterday: 28This week: 165Period total: 12K

Compatibility

WordPress3.0+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v1.1
98.5%
v1.0
1.5%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.1.5

  • WP 6.6 compatibility tested
  • Patched a minor security issue
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

MeksMeks
Plugin Info
Version
1.1.5
Last Updated
Jul 23, 2024
WP Requires
3.0+
Tested Up To
6.6.5
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
10K+
Downloads
430K+
Added
Jan 9, 2014
Business
Free

Tags

userauthoravatarwidgetprofile

Developer

M
Meks
14 plugins0.1M+ total installs
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