Description

Molongui Authorship provides you with all the tools that WordPress is missing when it comes to giving credit to your content creators. Molongui Authorship helps you to properly credit your authors and one-time contributors for their work. Quick, easy and hassle-free.

✅ Author Box. Author bio section displayed at the end of your posts

✅ Guest Author. Post without creating an account for the author

✅ Co-Authors. Add multiple authors to a single post

Main Features

Fully customizable author box: styles, content, placement, and display
Nice looking author box on desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile phones
90+ author social icons
Showcase related author posts
Post content from guest contributors
Just pick the guest author from the dropdown list
Each guest author has a profile but not an account
The post byline automatically displays the guest author name
Credit everyone adding multiple authors to a single post
Just pick the authors from the dropdown list in the edit post screen
The post byline automatically displays all authors name
Each name on the post byline link to their author page

Premium Features

✨ Premium features only available in Molongui Authorship Pro

Custom Post Type support

Additional author box layouts, styling options and display settings

Support for HTML tags and third party shortcodes and embeds in the author bio

Handy shortcodes to display the author box, the post byline and any author information anywhere. Know more here

Author archive page for guest authors

Author list. 4 different layouts, user role filter and more

List of posts by author. 5 different layouts, pagination and more

1-click user to guest conversion and vice versa

Allow visitors to search content by author name. Know 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

Byline modifiers so you can prepend and append any string to them (i.e. By)

Retrieve author information via shortcode. Very useful to use with page builders

Guest author and co-authored post information available for third-party applications via REST API

Read more about the Molongui Authorship advanced features.

More Info

🆚 Why go Pro? Check here a Free VS Pro feature comparison

🔝 Want to try the Pro version? Click here

🤨 Need help? Click here

✉ Need support Click here

👋 Want to chat with us? Click here

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.

Screenshots

Author Box – Just a sample of the infinite looks you can design
Author Box – Yet another sample of a beautiful design for your author box
Author Box – You may want to hide author links and author meta
Author Box – You can play around with the box borders to design something different than what you see on other websites
Author Box – Optionally, add a header to the author box
Author Box – Tabbed layout. All styling is customizable
Author Box – Tabbed layout. Tabs placed on the left and social icons on the right
Author Box – Stacked layout showing related author posts at the same time
Author Box – Yet another example of how customizable is the author box. Isn’t it awesome?
Author Box – Slim design. Make your author box look like a post byline!
Author Box – Display author’s name acronym for those authors who doesn’t have a profile image
Author Box – Just another example of another design you can do
Author Box – Go creative and design awesome author boxes with custom CSS
Author Box – Responsive view of the author box
Co-Authors – One post, multiple authors. See how post byline displays all authors name and how they link to their author pages
Co-Authors – The author box displays all post authors bio. You decide whether to display all of them in a single author box or in separate boxes
Co-Authors – Author pages display co-authored posts too
Guest Author – Add as many guest authors as you need without creating an account for them.
Guest Author – Adding an author for your posts is as easy as picking their name from a dropdown list in your edit post screen
Default WordPress author picker is replaced with an easy-to-use dropdown select. Pick as many authors as people worked in the post and order how they must be displayed just by drag and drop
[PRO feature] Display a beautiful author list. Different layouts, author filtering and pagination available
[PRO feature] Replace your boring bylines with a custom design that wow your readers
[PRO feature] Give visitors more relevant search results and a better user experience allowing them to search content by author display name
[PRO feature] 1-click user to guest author and guest author to user converter

Installation

Automatic Plugin Installation

To install this plugin using the built-in plugin installer:

Go to: Plugins > Add New
Type in Molongui Authorship in the Search box
Click on the Install Now button
The resulting installation screen will list the installation as successful or note any problems during the install
If successful, click Activate Plugin to activate it, or Return to Plugin Installer for further actions

Manual Plugin Installation

To install the plugin manually:

Download the plugin to your computer
Extract the plugin folder to your desktop
With your FTP program, upload the extracted plugin folder to the wp-content/plugins/ folder in your WordPress directory
Go to Plugins screen and find the newly uploaded plugin in the list
Click on Activate link to activate it

If you need further assistance, please, read the Installing Plugins article on the WordPress documentation or write us an email so we can assist you.

Requirements

In order to run, Molongui Authorship requires:

PHP version 5.6.20 or greater. Considering WordPress recommends it to be 7.4 or greater, this should not be a problem.
WordPress 5.2 or later.

FAQ

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.

Where can I find documentation and user guides?

For help setting up and configuring this plugin, please refer to our documentation.

How do I get support?

We’re following the threads on this plugin public Support Forum and based on them we always try to build up new and better implementations for the plugin.

To help us answer questions as quickly as possible please ensure you provide:

A link to your site so we can view issues, especially important for issues around appearance of your website
Screenshots
Environment Report: This can give us a lot of very useful information. Navigate to Authors > Help! and scroll down to the bottom of the page. There you will see a panel labeled as **System Status Report System Status**, jsut press the Send Report button.

Paying Pro Customers

If you have purchased a Pro plugin at molongui.com, you can get help faster opening a support ticket using this link. As a Pro Customer, you get Premium Support which comes with priority over requests on this plugin public Support Forum.

How can I say thanks?

You can say thank you by leaving us a review here. Or you can give back by recommending this amazing plugin to your friends!

Reviews

kaitlinamalthea 🍃3️⃣ 4, 2025 1 reply

The plugin has real human supporters who are knowledgable and kind and helpful. With all the AI stuff in the world right now, this makes such an incredible difference. Thanks so much to the support team!!

evisionarts ❄️2️⃣ 26, 2025 1 reply

I am a wordpress developer and I use Molongui across multiple sites. It is easy to set up and use and if there are any issues (which is rare) the support is amazingly fast. I reccomend Molongui to all my clients. It’s simply the best.

cmenglish ❄️1️⃣ 27, 2025 1 reply

I submitted a support ticket Friday afternoon and had a reply within the hour and a fix Monday morning with follow-ups to verify everything was working properly again. Molongui are among the top tier of WP plugin support.

Catalin Dumitru 🍂 1️⃣1️⃣ 21, 2024 1 reply

The best support ever, with a fast response and collaborative effort to find a solution.

altimac 🍂 9️⃣ 2, 2024 1 reply

I am using the Pro version of the plugin on a site running the Newspaper theme from TagDiv, which is essentially a badly-coded mess with a proprietary page builder that makes WP Bakery look good by comparison. Molongui’s support site actually informs users that there are only three WordPress themes, out of 30,000 or more, that their plugin has issues with, one of those being Newspaper and their cloud templates library. As I had bought the plugin prior to realizing this, I reported the problems I immediately experienced to Molongui support and then came across their info about compatibility. My experience in working with WordPress for the last eight years or so, is that with any other plugin that was upfront about which themes it was incompatible with, I would either have been told to switch to a different theme that adheres to WordPress coding standards and best practices, and/or perhaps been offered a refund. Instead, John, one of the developers, literally spent hours on our staging site basically hacking his own plugin to work around all the Newspaper theme’s shortcomings. It’s very rare to experience this level of support, even when the problems are with the developer’s own code, much less with someone else’s, and I would say the support deserves around 6.5 stars, were that an option.

John July 15, 2024 6 replies

This is a great plugin, but the problem arose when the author post count stopped after the last update, it needs to be fixed. Moreover, Author Posts and Author Bio tabs have disappeared. Overall performance is satisfactory.

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Contributors & Developers

“Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

Important: If you use a caching plugin, please clear your cache after updating any plugins.

5.0.15 (2025-03-11)

Fixed: Co-authored posts are now listed when using Elementor’s Posts widget with the author filter.
Fixed: Fatal error caused by missing quotes when the Jetpack plugin was active.

5.0.14 (2025-02-11)

Added: Filter to customize attributes for the author avatar <img> element.

5.0.13 (2025-02-11)

Added: Threads as author social profile option.
Added: Bluesky as author social profile option.
Added: Strava as author social profile option.
Added: Facebook Messenger as author social profile option.
Added: Flipboard Messenger as author social profile option.
Added: QQ as author social profile option.
Added: IMDb as author social profile option.
Fixed: Post byline now omits the co-authors count when configured not to display co-authors.
Fixed: Required Block Editor scripts are now loaded exclusively on the edit post screen.

5.0.12 (2025-02-06)

Fixed: Incorrect author meta information displayed in the author box when profile fields are missing.

5.0.11 (2025-02-04)

Fixed: Post byline now shows additional co-authors count.

5.0.10 (2025-01-30)

Fixed: Author box now displayed when using custom Divi Builder templates for posts.
Fixed: Co-authored posts are now listed on the author page when using Elementor’s Loop Grid widget.

5.0.9 (2025-01-27)

Fixed: Error when updating post counters after changing a post’s author.
Fixed: Backend author list now displays post counts correctly.
Fixed: Co-authors can now edit posts they are assigned to when using the Block Editor.
Fixed: Author box no longer displays twice on certain themes.
Fixed: Replaced deprecated filters with new equivalents to prevent warning messages.
Deprecated: The authorship/author/get_posts/args filter. Scheduled for removal in version 5.2.0.
Removed: Long-deprecated functions, actions, and filters.

5.0.8 (2025-01-21)

Fixed: Author box no longer shows draft posts as related posts.

5.0.7 (2025-01-18)

Fixed: Author box styling now appears correctly when using block themes.

5.0.6 (2025-01-17)

Fixed: Author search box not displaying all matching results.
Changed: Optimized retrieval of post counts.

5.0.5 (2025-01-15)

Fixed: Non-static method is_display_name_available() called statically.
Fixed: Unsupported operand types in increment_counter.
Fixed: Unsupported operand types in decrement_counter.
Fixed: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array in increment_counter.
Fixed: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array in decrement_counter.

5.0.4 (2025-01-15)

Fixed: Author box not displaying on custom post templates by the Divi Builder.

5.0.3 (2025-01-14)

Fixed: Author box being displayed regardless of plugin configuration.
Fixed: Incorrect post count computed for authors.

5.0.2 (2025-01-14)

Fixed: Default settings are now initialized upon plugin activation.

5.0.1 (2025-01-14)

Fixed: PHP warning for undefined array key author_box_avatar_fallback
Fixed: PHP warning for undefined array key guest_author_enabled
Fixed: PHP warning for undefined array key guest_pages

5.0.0 (2025-01-14)

Added: Ability to customize the order of social profiles.
Added: Ready-to-use templates for the author box.
Added: Dummy author data for author box preview.
Added: Row action to update posts counts for users and guest authors.
Added: Bulk action to update posts counts for selected users and guest authors.
Added: Option to hide the author name on the author box.
Added: Option to run custom PHP on the Dashboard.
Added: Ability to customize the position and icon of the ‘Authors’ menu.
Enhanced: Compatibility with the Newspaper theme.
Enhanced: Compatibility with the Reusable Content Blocks plugin.
Fixed: Custom CSS styles not loading correctly.
Fixed: Incorrect query argument value.
Fixed: Author search box could not find authors containing dots or spaces in their names.
Fixed: Acronym author box avatars not displaying letters centered correctly.
Changed: Redesigned plugin settings page.
Changed: Replaced the author dropdown with a search-as-you-type input in the Author Box Editor.
Changed: Switched the JavaScript library used for search-as-you-type suggestions.
Changed: Improved responsiveness by using native CSS properties, removing JavaScript-based solutions.
Changed: Updated framework files to version 3.3.0.
Changed: Added compatibility with WordPress 6.7.
Removed: The option to hide HTML elements on the frontend. Use ‘Custom CSS’ instead.
Removed: The option to load plugin vendor assets from a remote CDN. To enable remote loading, use the ‘authorship/assets/load_remote’ filter.
Dev: Major code refactor.
Dev: Removed ‘get_byline’ helper function.
Dev: Removed ‘get_post_authors’ helper function.

4.9.7 (2024-08-29)

Added filter to control the separator used before each author meta item
Fixed PHP warning on undefined property
Fixed issue with the Molongui Post Contributors plugin

4.9.6 (2024-08-01)

Editors can now quickly add guest authors from the post edit screen
Fixed related posts toggle not showing when using the “slim” layout for the author box
Enhanced compatibility with the jNews theme
Updated framework files to version 3.1.0

4.9.5 (2024-07-09)

Fixed load time impact on the post list screen for installations with over 5,000 authors
Added WordPress 6.6 compatibility

4.9.4 (2024-07-03)

Added ‘WeChat’ social network
Fixed PHP warning regarding dynamic property

4.9.3 (2024-06-24)

Fixed users with the ‘contributor’ user role not being selectable as post author
Removed the ‘edit_posts’ capability requirement to be eligible as post author
Enhanced compatibility with the Molongui Post Contributors plugin

4.9.2 (2024-06-20)

The email field is not required any more for quick-adding guest authors from the edit-post screen
Fixed javascript conflict when editing a post using the old/classic WordPress editor

4.9.1 (2024-06-17)

Fixed missing author bio on author pages
Enhanced compatibility with the Jannah theme
Updated framework files to version 3.0.3

4.9.0 (2024-06-13)

Reduced number of queries
Redesigned post author selector
Refactored some code
Improved some messages readability

4.8.6 (2024-06-03)

Fixed some data sanitization
Fixed misleading debug message
Updated framework files to version 3.0.2

4.8.5 (2024-05-31)

Enhanced compatibility with the Avada theme
Fixed issue with mailto links in the author box

4.8.4 (2024-05-20)

Fixed deprecated function returning void

4.8.3 (2024-05-20)

Fixed quick edit hanging on saving
Fixed typo in constant name

4.8.2 (2024-05-15)

Fixed missing author validation

4.8.1 (2024-05-14)

Fixed debug messages showing in browser console

4.8.0 (2024-05-14)

Added option to allow non-privileged users to publish content on behalf of others
Added option to disable guest author translations for Polylang
Fixed issues with the authors assigned to a post
Fixed email icons in the author box not working properly
Fixed break line as separator for the author meta not working
Fixed some PHP warnings
Minor code refactor
Updated plugin bootstrap
Updated framework files to version 3.0.0
Raised min PHP supported version to 5.6.20… come on
Added WordPress 6.5 compatibility

4.7.10 (2024-02-28)

Added hook to allow non-privileged users (user account without administrative privileges) to publish content on behalf of others
Fixed missing JS variables
Fixed localized JS variables loaded twice
Fixed PHP error caused by wrong function name

4.7.9 (2024-02-26)

Fixed guest post bylines showing weird data with some themes

4.7.8 (2024-02-26)

Added option to add custom PHP snippets
Added option to add custom CSS rules
Fixed author box shadow
Fixed IDOR vulnerability reported by Patchstack
Fixed XSS vulnerability reported by Patchstack
Improved compatibility with the tagDiv Cloud Library plugin
Updated framework files to version 2.5.0

4.7.7 (2024-01-26)

Improved compatibility with the Astra theme
Fixed PHP fatal error when displaying a page where the author box is not displayed
Fixed some PHP warnings

4.7.6 (2024-01-25)

Improved compatibility with the tagDiv Composer plugin
Improved compatibility with the Impreza theme
Added some new debug messages (only visible when debug mode is enabled)
Fixed social media schema not being added to the page markup
Fixed options export not working

4.7.5 (2024-01-09)

Fixed information exposure issue reported by Wordfence
Fixed some non-blocking PHP warnings
Deprecated Stitcher social network

4.7.4 (2023-12-02)

Fixed wrong Twitter meta tag for creator
Fixed missing font-display descriptor
Fixed BAC vulnerability reported by Patchstack
Added WordPress 6.4 compatibility

4.7.3 (2023-10-18)

Fixed extra spacing displayed at the bottom of the author bio in the author box
Fixed author box live preview not working for the author name and meta colors
Added compatibility with block themes
Improved compatibility with the Elementor Pro plugin
Improved compatibility with the Rank Math SEO plugin
Improved compatibility with the Mailster plugin
Updated readme file

4.7.2 (2023-09-14)

Fixed missing separators in multi-authored posts’ byline
Fixed wrong avatar displayed on guest authors posts
Fixed byline not linking properly on co-authored posts when first author is a guest
Fixed posts list displaying post authors twice after a quick edit
Improved compatibility with the Polylang plugin

4.7.1 (2023-09-07)

Fixed PHP error thrown by method_exists checking on null

4.7.0 (2023-09-07)

Fixed weird URLs on page schema that led to 404 errors. Know more here.
Fixed weird behavior on co-authored post bylines when author name contained the same string used as names separator. Know more here.
Fixed user local avatar not being saved when additional profile fields disabled
Improved compatibility with the Uncode Core plugin for the Uncode theme.
Deprecated ‘authorship/filter_author_link’ filter. Use ‘authorship/pre_author_link’ instead.
Deprecated ‘_authorship/filter/get_user_by’ filter. Use ‘authorship/pre_get_user_by’ instead.

See changelog for all versions here.