This plugin adds some xtras to authoring profile: profile image, social media contacts, as well as alternative author and multiple authors.
As of April 2026, Profile Xtra is a WordPress profile plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.9K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Gravatar Enhanced – Avatars, Profiles….
With this plugin an author can nicely add an image to its profile (an use it on their posts instead of the avatar). Some different social addresses can be added also by the author. The image, bio and social contact can be placed anywhere in the post (using shortcode or its widget form).
Sometimes you want to add an article from certain person, but not neccesarly register that person as an author to your blog. With this plugin, you simply add that (alter or alternative) author directly when you create or edit the post. In the backend, to wordpress, you are the author (you have such capability), but in all other aspects, in the frontend, the alter author appears as the author of that post.
And if you want to consider more than one author for a post, this plugin let you to do it easily.
| WordPress | 3.0.1+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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