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author plugins
223 plugins in the directory carry the author tag. This page leads with what has moved in the last 90 days, because a ranked list of the biggest ones is available anywhere.
223
plugins
310,220+
combined reach
26
released in 90 days
78%
quiet 18 months+
1
movements in 90 days
What moved
Ownership changes, closures and long-silent plugins that shipped again, over a rolling 90-day window recomputed daily. Events older than 90 days drop off as new ones arrive. The part of this category that a directory listing cannot show. Nothing here says anything about intent.
| Date | Plugin | Installs | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Aug 2026 | 自定义作者名称 | 30+ | released after a long silence |
Most installed
The 50 most installed plugins carrying this tag, ordered by install band, which WordPress.org rounds to one significant digit. Ordering is adoption only. Nothing here is a recommendation, and no link on this page earns anything. The full directory, all categories together, is in the master list.
| Plugin | Installs | Rating | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edit Author Slug Allows an admin (or capable user) to edit the author slug of a user, and change the author base. | 100,000+ | 4.8★ | 15 months ago |
| WP Meta and Date Remover Remove meta author and date information from posts and pages. Hide from Humans and Search engines.SEO friendly and most advance plugin. | 90,000+ | 4.2★ | 3 months ago |
| Hide/Remove Metadata Hide/Remove Metadata is a free WordPress plugin that helps you hide author and published date either by CSS or PHP from your website effortlessly. | 20,000+ | 3.6★ | 3 months ago |
| Disable Author Archives Disable Author Archives completely removes author archives and makes the web server return status code 404 ('Not Found') instead. | 10,000+ | 4.4★ | 17 days ago |
| Meks Smart Author Widget Easily display your author/user profile info inside WordPress widget. | 10,000+ | 4.5★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| Starbox – the Author Box for Humans Starbox is the Author Box for Humans. Professional Themes to choose from, HTML5, Social Media Profiles, Google Authorship | 10,000+ | 4.5★ | 16 months ago |
| VK Post Author Display Display to Post Author Information Box on bottom of the contents. | 10,000+ | 4.5★ | 13 days ago |
| WP Author, Date and Meta Remover Don't need the post date and author meta data on your pages? Install WP Author, Date and Meta Remover and its gone. It's that easy! | 10,000+ | 3.2★ | 5.5 years ago · quiet |
| Authors List Use a shortcode to display a list or grid of post authors (or any other user role) and links to their post archives page. | 5,000+ | 5.0★ | 9 months ago |
| Guest Author Add a guest author to any post without needing to register the guest author as a user on your site. | 5,000+ | 4.2★ | 21 days ago |
| WP Custom Author URL Set a custom URL for your author name link, on a global or author-specific basis. Also redirects all author pages. | 5,000+ | 5.0★ | 5 months ago |
| Author Avatars List/Block Display lists of user avatars using widgets or shortcodes. With Gutenberg support. | 4,000+ | 4.8★ | 30 days ago |
| Smart User Slug Hider Hide usernames in Author Pages URLs to enhance Security | 3,000+ | 4.9★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| WP Author Slug Add a layer of security and prevent your login name from being shown in the author archive's URL. | 3,000+ | 4.8★ | 17 days ago |
| Bulk Change Media Author Bulk change author for multiple media files, using the default WP Media Library. | 2,000+ | 4.9★ | 3 years ago · quiet |
| (Simply) Guest Author Name Create a post and override the author name with one or more names or text. You can also create a link for the author name field | 2,000+ | 4.7★ | 6 months ago |
| Remove Author Pages Remove author pages and link authors to home page | 2,000+ | 4.9★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Author Bio Box Display a box with the author's biography in your WordPress | 1,000+ | 4.8★ | 4.5 years ago · quiet |
| Author Filters Author filters plugin integrates an author filter drop down to sort listing on post, page, custom post type in admin. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 5.5 years ago · quiet |
| Authors Widget Authors Widget shows the list or cloud of the authors in the sidemenu. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| cbnet Multi Author Comment Notification Send comment notification and comment moderation emails to multiple users. Select users individually or by user role, or send emails to arbitrary emai … | 1,000+ | 4.3★ | 10 years ago · quiet |
| Change Author This plugin lets you assign non-authors as post author. | 1,000+ | 4.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Mooberry Book Manager Sell books via Amazon and other retailers directly from your author website with this easy-to-use system. Creates book pages, widgets, and book grids. | 1,000+ | 4.6★ | 21 months ago · quiet |
| Author Image Lets you easily add author images on your site. | 1,000+ | 3.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| SF Author Url Control Allows administrators or capable users to change the users profile url. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 10 years ago · quiet |
| Author Box WP Lens A plugin which provides an author box for your WordPress blog. Originally known as "Author Box for Divi." | 900+ | 5.0★ | 19 days ago |
| Admin Page Notes Gives administrators the ability to add notes to posts of any post type (including pages) that are prominently displayed for users editing the site. | 700+ | 5.0★ | 6 months ago |
| Change Author Link Structure To prevent that usernames are publically visible, the username in the author's permalink is replaced with the author's ID. | 700+ | 5.0★ | 22 days ago |
| Comment Email Reply Simply notifies comment-author via email if someone replies to his comment. Zero Configuration. | 600+ | 4.5★ | 11 years ago · quiet |
| Custom Author Byline Allows you to add an author name and link to the byline, other than the actual logged in user, without that custom author having to have a WordPress a … | 500+ | 3.0★ | 15 years ago · quiet |
| GS Books Showcase – Display Books in Grid, Slider & More | Library for WordPress Showcase your books in Grid, Slider, Filter & Flip layouts. GS Books Showcase is the ultimate book library plugin for WordPress. | 500+ | 4.8★ | 13 days ago |
| Hide Author Archive Hide author archive URL of WordPress. | 500+ | 5.0★ | 19 months ago · quiet |
| Product Author for WooCommerce Product Author for WooCommerce enables author functionality for Woocommerce Products, Author can be assigned to Woocommerce Product using this plugin | 500+ | 5.0★ | 6 days ago |
| Google SEO Pressor for Rich snippets Enrich your WordPress website content with Google Structured Data and make it more SEO friendly. | 400+ | 3.8★ | 3.5 years ago · quiet |
| WP Author Security Protect against user enumeration attacks on author pages and other places where valid user names can be obtained. | 400+ | 5.0★ | 3 years ago · quiet |
| Display Name Author Permalink Replaces the username for author permalinks with the users display name. Returns a 404 if the author permalink using the actual username is used. | 300+ | 4.2★ | 8 years ago · quiet |
| SX No author Pagination SX No author Pagination removes properly any author pagination and redirects useless paginated content. | 300+ | — | 16 months ago |
| About Author Display Blog Authors Information In Style you can publish blog users profile into any Page or Post in your WordPress sites. | 200+ | 4.4★ | 3 months ago |
| WP Google Authorship Google Plus Profile Picture appear in Google Search. Very Easy to implement. Including Google authorship for multiple authors and multisite. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 10 months ago |
| Overwrite Author Name Overwrite Author to a consistent name when publishing a post. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 23 months ago · quiet |
| Simple Author Bio Plugin that shows the author's biography in the foot of the posts. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 5.5 years ago · quiet |
| Smart Custom Display Name Allows you to change the value of "Display name publicly as" in user profiles to any string | 200+ | 5.0★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| All-in-one Widget Add fundamental functionality to your WordPress sidebars with a set of proper widgets. | 100+ | 4.0★ | 9.5 years ago · quiet |
| Author Post Ratings Allows a post author to assign a simple 1-5 star rating to a post, page, or custom post type, which will then be displayed on the post. | 100+ | 5.0★ | 12 years ago · quiet |
| Author Spotlight (Widget) A Sidebar widget to display the Author(s) profile on any Page or Post along with Social web links. | 100+ | 4.5★ | 9.5 years ago · quiet |
| Display Authors Widget Display authors by role. | 100+ | 4.4★ | 11 years ago · quiet |
| Fix Gravatar Alt Text & Title Tag Applies comment author name to Gravatar's Alt and Title tags in comments and author display name to Gravatars site-wide. | 100+ | — | 11 months ago |
| HTML in Author Bio Enables the use of HTML formatting in Author Bio | 100+ | — | 15 years ago · quiet |
| Media Author Allows you to change the author of a piece of media | 100+ | 5.0★ | 13 years ago · quiet |
| Post Author Filter Add a author selection on post / page editpage | 100+ | 3.8★ | 11 years ago · quiet |
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