Popular Authors
Discover and appreciate your blog’s most popular authors, a simple and powerful addon for Top 10 - Popular Posts for WordPress.
5(2 reviews)
·10 active installs·Updated 3 weeks agoAs of April 2026, Popular Authors is a WordPress views plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 3.0K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.6+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Top alternative: WP-PostViews.
5/52 reviews
10active installs
3.0K+total downloads
6 yearssince 2020
Overview
Popular Authors WordPress plugin is the ultimate addon for Top 10, the best plugin to showcase your most popular posts on WordPress. With Popular Authors, you can also highlight the top authors on your blog by page views and give them the recognition they deserve.
Popular Authors lets you display the most popular authors using different methods. You can use the Gutenberg block, the shortcode, the widget or the template tag to insert the popular authors list anywhere on your site. You can also customize the appearance and settings of each method to suit your needs.
Popular Authors also gives you the flexibility to choose the time range for calculating the page views. You can show the popular authors of all time, or limit it to a specific period, such as last day, last week, last month, etc…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
| Dependencies | top-10 |
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Changelog
1.4.0
Release post: https://webberzone.com/announcements/popular-authors-1-4-0
- Features:
- New option to display post count in the Popular Authors block.
- Added a dashboard widget to display popular authors on the WordPress dashboard.
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