Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress
All-in-One Authorship Solution: Seamless Author Box, Guest Authors, and Co-Authors to enhance your site's authority, credibility, engagement, and SEO.
4.7(157 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 1 month agoAs of April 2026, Molongui Authorship is a WordPress author bio plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 157 reviews. It has been downloaded 575K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.2+ and PHP 5.6.20+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 34% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: Simple Author Box.
4.7/5157 reviews
10K+active installs
100%resolved
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
Properly credit authors & contributors—quickly, easily, and hassle-free.
The all-in-one authorship plugin for WordPress: show bios, add co-authors, credit guests, and boost SEO.
Tired of jumping through hoops to properly attribute authors? Molongui Authorship makes it effortless to showcase contributors—whether they’re registered users, guests, or co-authors.
✅ Author Box – Beautiful, customizable bios with social links
✅ Guest Authors – Credit guest writers without creating user accounts
✅ Co-Authors – Add multiple authors to a single post with seamless byline integration
🚀 Switching from another plugin? Import data in 1 click from Co-Authors Plus, PublishPress Authors, and One User Avatar.
✔️ Add author boxes with bios and social links
✔️ Credit guest authors without user acc…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Codebase very flawed
by Jeff Chi·3 weeks ago
We took over a legacy site that uses this plugin. In theory the idea is good, but we often had problems with the code base, missing or outdated documentation and some straight-up bugs and oversights in the code. When updating the dependencies for the site, this plugin is often the only one that leads to problems. I would recommend looking for an alternative.
Top-notch support
by dmc2026·2 months ago·1 reply
My idea for a knowledge platform was that contributors should be recognized as co-authors and appear directly in articles. While searching for a suitable author box solution, I came across the Molongui Authorship Pro plugin.
When I tested it, there was initially a compatibility issue with BetterDocs. However, the Molongui support team responded immediately in a very friendly and highly competent manner and resolved the issue in no time.
I’m very happy to have found this plugin—it fits my goals perfectly, integrates well with BetterDocs, and fully meets my expectations.
- This topic was modified 2 months, 2 weeks ago by dmc2026.
Support team is amazing
by kaitlinamalthea·1 year ago·1 reply
The plugin has real human supporters who are knowledgable and kind and helpful. With all the AI stuff in the world right now, this makes such an incredible difference. Thanks so much to the support team!!
By Far the Best Co-Author Plugin
by evisionarts·1 year ago·1 reply
I am a wordpress developer and I use Molongui across multiple sites. It is easy to set up and use and if there are any issues (which is rare) the support is amazingly fast. I reccomend Molongui to all my clients. It’s simply the best.
Top tier support response time
by cmenglish·1 year ago·1 reply
I submitted a support ticket Friday afternoon and had a reply within the hour and a fix Monday morning with follow-ups to verify everything was working properly again. Molongui are among the top tier of WP plugin support.
Download Trends
Today: 77Yesterday: 101This week: 591Period total: 89K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.2+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.6.20+ required |
Version Adoption
v5.2
58.3%
v5.1
24.6%
Other
11.4%
v4.9
5.7%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
Important: If you use a caching plugin, please clear your cache after updating any plugins.
5.2.9 (2026-02-16)
- Added: New ready-to-use template for the author box.
- Fixed: Author box related posts now work correctly when Co-Authors and Guest Authors are disabled.
Contributors
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