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Molongui Authorship
Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress
All-in-One Authorship Solution: Seamless Author Box, Guest Authors, and Co-Authors to enhance your site's authority, credibility, engagement, and SEO.
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v5.2.11 10,000+ installs WP 5.2+ PHP 5.6.20+

What you get inside
8 screens-
Author Box - Just a sample of the infinite looks you can design
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Author Box - Yet another sample of a beautiful design for your author box
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Author Box - You may want to hide author links and author meta
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Author Box - You can play around with the box borders to design something different than what you see on other websites
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Author Box - Optionally, add a header to the author box
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Author Box - Tabbed layout. All styling is customizable
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Author Box - Tabbed layout. Tabs placed on the left and social icons on the right
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Author Box - Stacked layout showing related author posts at the same time
About this plugin
Properly credit authors & contributors—quickly, easily, and hassle-free.
The all-in-one authorship plugin for WordPress: show bios, add co-authors, credit guests, and boost SEO.
Tired of jumping through hoops to properly attribute authors? Molongui Authorship makes it effortless to showcase contributors—whether they’re registered users, guests, or co-authors.
✅ Author Box – Beautiful, customizable bios with social links
✅ Guest Authors – Credit guest writers without creating user accounts
✅ Co-Authors – Add multiple authors to a single post with seamless byline integration
🚀 Switching from another plugin? Import data in 1 click from Co-Authors Plus, PublishPress Authors, and One User Avatar.
✔️ Add author boxes with bios and social links
✔️ Credit guest authors without user accounts
✔️ Add co-authors to any post or page
✔️ Boost author credibility and SEO
✔️ Seamless 1-click migration from other plugins
Key Features
🛠 Author Box – Your Authors, Elevated
Transform how authors are presented with the most customizable, engagement-boosting author box for WordPress.
✨ Pixel-Perfect Customization
- Multiple pre-designed templates
- Different layouts (boxed, minimalist, tabbed, inline)
- Live preview editor with real-time styling
- Mobile-optimized responsive design
- Custom CSS panel for unlimited tweaks
✨ Author Profiles That Engage
- 90+ social icons (including emerging platforms)
- “Related Posts” section to boost engagement
- Guest and co-author compatibility
✨ Context-Smart Display
- Automatic placement before/after content
- Customizable headings (“About the Author”, “Meet the Expert”, etc.)
- Schema markup for Google rich snippets and improved Google E-E-A-T
- AMP/RTL support for broader compatibility
⚡ Premium Advantages
- Additional premium layouts
- Dynamic bios with rich text, media, HTML tags, and third party shortcodes support
- 30+ extra niche social icons
- Advanced conditional logic (user roles, tags, etc.)
- Custom post type support
- Shortcode to display the author box wherever
👥 Guest Authors – Credit Contributors Without the Clutter
Give proper attribution without creating unnecessary user accounts—ideal for one-time contributors, interviewees, or guest bloggers.
✨ Native WordPress Integration
- Add guest authors as easily as regular users—no technical hassle
- Dropdown selection in the post editor—just pick a name and go
- Full profiles with bios, avatars, and social links (no Gravatar required)
- Custom fields for job titles, affiliations, or custom links
✨ Seamless Frontend Display
- Auto-display in post bylines with linked names
- Author box compatibility—show guest bios alongside regular authors
- SEO-optimized: Updates
authormeta tags for accurate attribution⚡ Premium Advantages
- Guest author archive pages (boost credibility with dedicated profiles)
- 1-click user-to-guest conversion: Clean up unused accounts while preserving authorship
- Bulk edit & clone: Save time reusing guest profiles
- REST API support: Integrate guest data with third-party tools
- Import/Export tool for easy migrations
👨👩👧👦 Co-Authors – Flawless Multi-Author Attribution
Credit every contributor fairly—whether it’s joint articles, team projects, or collaborative content.
✨ Effortless Collaboration
- Add unlimited co-authors via simple dropdown in the post editor
- Works seamlessly with both regular users and guest authors
- Drag-and-drop author ordering (control name display sequence)
- No taxonomy conflicts—cleaner than legacy plugins
✨ Automatic Frontend Display
- Smart bylines auto-update with all author names (e.g., “By John, Lisa & Max”)
- Each name links to author pages (guest authors included)
- Schema.org markup for proper multi-author SEO
⚡ Premium Advantages
- Byline modifiers (add prefixes like “By” or suffixes like “et al.”)
- REST API support for headless WordPress setups
- Shortcodes to display co-author lists anywhere
🚀 1-Click Migration Tool – Switch Without Losing Data
Switching from Co-Authors Plus, PublishPress Authors, or One User Avatar? Import your existing author data with 1 click! No manual work needed.
🔍 Additional Premium Features
Only available in Molongui Authorship Pro.
- Author list. 4 different layouts, user role filter and more
- List of posts by author. 5 different layouts, pagination and more
- Allow visitors to search content by author name. Learn more
- Disable author pages for registered WordPress users
- Add a post byline anywhere via shortcode. Useful if your theme does not show a byline for your posts
- Retrieve author information via shortcode. Very useful to use with page builders. Learn more here
💡 Ready to enhance your authorship experience?
Compare Free vs Pro | Try Pro | Get Support | Live Chat
This plugin uses a third-party service to enable live chat communication with our support team, exclusively for administrators in the backend. You can disable this service via the plugin settings page. For more information about the live chat service provider review their privacy policy and terms.
Questions
- Will Molongui Authorship work with my theme?
Yes. Molongui Authorship is compatible with any theme. You may face some issues though, like the author box not having a style you configured or the author pages not listing co-authored posts. In such cases, you can open a support ticket with us and we will look into it to find a compatibility fix.
- Can I use Molongui Authorship with Elementor, Divi and other page builders?
Yes.
- Where is the author box displayed?
By default, the author box is added at the bottom of all your posts. However, Molongui Authorship provides you plenty of display options to change that. You can change the location to make it display at the top of the post content, hide it on some posts or disable the automatic display so you can decide on which handpicked posts it must be shown. The Pro version of the plugin allows you to hide the author box based on the post category.
- Can I display the author box on a page?
Yes. Unlike other author box plugins, Molongui Authorship allows you to show the author box on both posts and pages. To be able to display the author box on pages, go to Authors > Settings > Author Box and find the Display panel. There you can configure Molongui Authorship to automatically display the author box on pages.
- Can I use Molongui Authorship on custom post types?
Yes. You need the Pro version of the plugin to enjoy the features on custom post types.
- I have two author boxes. How can I hide one?
The second author box might be a theme feature and you will need to turn it off from your theme’s options screen, or hide it with custom CSS. Please refer to this support article to know how to proceed. If that doesn’t help, you can open a support ticket with us so we can assist.
- Where are all the available social networks? I can’t see them all…
To avoid clutter the edit screen, some social networks are not displayed by default. To configure which networks to display, go to Authors > Settings > More and find the Social Networks panel. There you can pick the ones you need.
- Why some social media profiles are premium options?
Those social media networks which are intended for business and professional networking are only available in the Pro version of the plugin.
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