Starbox is the Author Box for Humans. Professional Themes to choose from, HTML5, Social Media Profiles, Google Authorship
As of April 2026, Starbox is a WordPress users plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 203 reviews. It has been downloaded 518K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Download volume is stable this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: User Switching.
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We’ve added many options for our PRO users and the new highly visual themes will be the game changers you’ve waited for.
Starbox is the Author Box for Humans
While search engines and other software that read your site care about files like robots.txt, you need Human readers to actually engage with your content and fall in love with it.
Humans look at beauty more than anything else (as you most probably already know, men and women alike). That’s why you’ll get…
I love that plugin, but I’ll probably have to switch to another solution since I’d like to go multilingual. Unfortunately, Starbox doesn’t seem to be compatible with WPML. That’s unfortunate for Starbox lovers.
Pleasant and efficient. Many thanks to the developers. Works well with php 8.1 and wp 6.2. Better than other free plugins 😉
Fisrt time that I see such a simple plugin to use, very convenient and easy for the settings. But the support is fantastic. I wanted to tweak a little bit, and immediately I received all the solutions.
Bravo !
Simple but great plugin
Easy to install and to take in hands, step by step
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
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