PublishPress Authors is the best plugin for adding authors, co-authors, multiple authors and guest authors to WordPress posts.
As of April 2026, Co-Authors, Multiple Authors and Guest Authors in an Author Box with PublishPress Authors is a WordPress authors plugin with 20K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 111 reviews. It has been downloaded 627K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.5+ and PHP 7.2.5+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are up 11% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: Co-Authors Plus.
PublishPress Authors allows you to create, manage and display authors for all your WordPress content. The plugin provides author boxes that can display one author, coauthors, multiple authors or even guest authors. The boxes have the author bio, name, avatar, description and more. You can also place the author boxes in widgets, shortcodes and Gutenberg blocks.
Here are the some most important features of PublishPress Authors:
great
The plugin works well, I’m very satisfied.
Works well and it makes the posts much cooler!
works great
Excellent! I can easily create new authors for my blog.
| WordPress | 5.5+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.2.5+ required |
The full changelog can be found on GitHub.
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