5 powerful and best author box wordpress plugins for your blog. Today its a tradition to add author box below your posts or pages. It’s the best way to connect with your readers, fellow bloggers and webmasters. It offers them with lots of different options to connect with your different social profiles, your other blogs and to read your awesome posts.
By default, wordpress allows its users to only add any HTML based content. This is something like a limitation to your creativity. But that’s not a big deal, you can easily install author box plugins which will help you add different features, custom design and feel to your site.
The Best Free Author Box WordPress Plugin
What are you waiting for, just check out my amazing collection and have fun. All the addons listed here are free to use and modify as per your need. So it means you can modify CSS files to add more personalized look.
Co-Authors Plus
Having problem in displaying different editors who have modified the article on your blog. No problem, this plugin will help you in your way. It allows you to add different co-authors bylines to respective pages, posts etc.
The best part is that, you can easily assign different editors for any article without creating accounts for them. This simply means, whoever have contributed in the post will get exposer infront of your reader base. This is likely going to help you get more guest bloggers or guest posting requests. It will also help you create a community where different guest posters will be able to meet fellow bloggers.
DownloadWP About Author Plugin
Want to add very customizable author box after posts in wordpress blog or website. Then just give a simple try to this powerful plugin. Actually it directly connects itself with the wordpress profile page. This simply means, you don’t need to fill in your profile page again.
Considering the features you will get, option to add three different types of borders. You can very easily select any color as background via color picker. For display settings you get custom page from where you can control when to display the author bios. And finally you can add social icons to offer better connectivity option to your visitors.
DownloadFancier Author Box
Simply the best author box plugin for wordpress. It not only allows you to add and connect different social streams and connections but also allows you to add all the latest posts by you in your website. In simple terms it not only helps you create engaged community, but also helps with your SEO by performing linking to your internal posts.
If we consider other different factors then you will get options for display and color settings. You can customize the looks by adding or removing tabs, background colors. You can also include the social icons and can specify the latest posts number.
DownloadAuthor Box After Posts
Very simple and easy to handle plugin. It doesn’t comes with loads of powerful features, but still offers very attractive and much better design. Once installed it will modify the box and then it will contain author’s gravatar, his name, total number of posts performed by him, description, link and finally connection to social networking websites.
It also offers very easy and detailed authorboxafterposts.css file. You can customize it as per your need so as to create the layout which suits best with your website. But above all this plugin can help you verify your Google authorship, since it links Google plus profile pages with rel=author.
DownloadEasy Author Box
Compatible with every type of themes and other functionality addons for wordpress. This plugin will help you add a customized box which will carry the gravatar of the real editor of post, his description, his website link and will also offers the option to add the other social networking sites. You also have the option to change the color of the author bios.
It also allows you to add the tab which will help you showoff the other article created by you. You can also select the number of article links to be shown. Finally you have power to customize the colors of every active, inactive and tab content. In the display setting you can assign the custom placement of the box. It can be below the content or above it.
DownloadSo in my opinion these were five of the perfect author box plugin for wordpress websites and blogs. They all are compatible with 3.5 plus update and also offers very simple to use interface. I wish you will like them all.
About Vivek Kumar Poddar
awesome plugin i will use in my blog thanks for sharing..
Thanks for the comment. So which author box plugin is perfect for you.
Vivek,
I am glad i ran across this article as I am in the beginning stages of my blog and am actively looking for different things to enhance my blog. I think an author box would be very useful for me. Thanks for the great info and different options!
Thanks for visiting my blog. If you need any help in establishing your website, then please let me know. I will try to help you.
Vivek, thanks for featuring our plugin — Fancier Author Box.
But to be fair to other plugin authors, the screenshot and most of the description is for paid version — Fanciest Author Box. Just don’t want anyone to download free version and feel disappointed. Btw. free version is also very powerful and would’ve definitely made, if not topped the list.
Thank you for visiting my blog. I know very well that your plugin also has a pro versions and most of the features are only for the paid users. And that’s the only reason its not in the top of my list. But truly if my list would be based on premium author box plugins, then your addon would be on the top.
Very interesting! Thanks for post.
Thanks for the comment and Which one was your favorite.
Thanks for the share Vivek. I use WP Biographia on my blogs but haven’t tried any one of the above……
Thanks for your comment and for sharing the info on this plugin. It seems to be good. i will soon update the post.
Nice list of author box plugins. I am using WP About Author Plugin in one of my blog.
Thanks for sharing the list with us.
WP About Author is a great addon. Thanks for your comment.
to be completely honest…I want to know about YOUR authorbox. The orange one. Howd you get that specifically, and also,, the subscription box…
could you please shed some light on that? thanks
I am using a genesis child theme, and I developed designed and developed this child theme, so I also designed the authorbox.