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PublishPress Authors

by PublishPress

Adds multiple authors and guest author profiles to posts with author boxes and archives.

4.9114 WordPress.org reviewsEditorialFreemium
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What PublishPress Authors does

Adds multiple authors and guest author profiles to posts with author boxes and archives.

It sits in the editorial part of a WordPress stack and is sold by PublishPress on a freemium basis. We recommend it in our editorial guides because it does that one job well without asking you to rebuild the rest of the site around it.

Every plugin adds work to a page request, so treat this as a decision with a cost. Record a speed test before you install it and run the same test afterwards, on the same page, so you know exactly what it charged you.

What PublishPress Authors looks like

Official screenshots from the WordPress.org plugin directory, as published by the plugin authors.

PublishPress Authors: With PublishPress Authors, you can choose multiple author bios for each post. When you write a post, you'll see the Authors box in the right sidebar. You can choose from all the users on your site, and assign them as authors.
With PublishPress Authors, you can choose multiple author bios for each post. When you write a post, you'll see the Authors box in the right sidebar. You can choose from all the users on your site, and assign them as authors.
PublishPress Authors: PublishPress Authors gives you multiple ways to show author bios. You can display authors under your content, in a widget, using shortcodes and more.
PublishPress Authors gives you multiple ways to show author bios. You can display authors under your content, in a widget, using shortcodes and more.
PublishPress Authors: Using PublishPress Authors, you can create Guest Authors who don't need an account on your site. PublishPress will treat Guest Authors identically to Authors who have WordPress accounts. Each user will have their own author profile.
Using PublishPress Authors, you can create Guest Authors who don't need an account on your site. PublishPress will treat Guest Authors identically to Authors who have WordPress accounts. Each user will have their own author profile.
PublishPress Authors: PublishPress Authors allows you to showcase the work of each individual author with customizable author pages where you decide which post information is displayed including tags, read more links, excerpts, and more.
PublishPress Authors allows you to showcase the work of each individual author with customizable author pages where you decide which post information is displayed including tags, read more links, excerpts, and more.

Try PublishPress Authors live

Press play to start a private, throwaway WordPress site in your browser with PublishPress Authors version 4.16.0 already installed. Nothing is saved and nothing touches your own site: close the page and it disappears.

Open the demo full screenSandbox provided by WordPress Playground, the official WordPress in-browser sandbox. The admin login is filled in for you.

Real user ratings

Score

4.9/5

Reviews

114

Active installs

20,000+

Downloads

729K

Latest version

4.17.0

Last updated

2026-09-23

These figures come straight from the public WordPress.org plugin directory API for version 4.17.0, not from us. Check them yourself on the WordPress.org listing. Our own editorial score is 4.5/5.

Where PublishPress Authors ranks elsewhere

PublishPress Authors does not appear in the published "best of" lists we track from WPBeginner, TechRadar, Kinsta, Themeisle and similar sites. That is not a mark against it - those roundups are short and skew towards the biggest names.

What changed in the latest version

PublishPress Authors does not publish a changelog we can read automatically, so check the vendor's own release notes before you update a live site.

Pros and cons

  • Real multi-author bylines
  • A free tier you can trial before paying
  • Actively maintained and used on production sites we test
  • Theme templates may need edits
  • The features most sites need sit in the paid tier

How to use it

  1. 1Install on a staging copy first if the site takes money.
  2. 2Work through the setup wizard and connect any external accounts it needs.
  3. 3Configure the one feature you installed it for, and leave the rest off.
  4. 4Test the result as a logged-out visitor on both mobile and desktop.
  5. 5Re-run our speed test to confirm the plugin has not cost you load time.

How it compares

Other editorial plugins we recommend, with their rating and pricing model.

PluginOur ratingWordPress.orgPricingBest for
PublishPress Authors4.54.9 (114)FreemiumReal multi-author bylines

This is the only plugin we currently recommend for this job.

Guides that cover PublishPress Authors

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