Over the last few years, author box plugins for WordPress have become quite popular. Bloggers are searching for better author boxes daily to get full utility and aesthetic appeal to their blog. Thankfully, WordPress allows its users to add author box as a plugin.
Basically this was the reason, I started looking for these author box plugins for the features they offer. In order to improve the visibility of author’s description and so-called social profiles, these 10 free author box WordPress plugins are the best ones that will help you manage author info box.
While compiling this list, it’s always a possibility that I missed some other great resources. Feel free to share it with us. If you like this effort then don’t forget to take a look on other articles: Fun and Entertainment WordPress Themes, Portfolio WP Free Themes for 2014, Free Subscribe Widgets for WordPress and Free Scroller Plugins for WordPress.
1. Starbox
Starbox is the Author Box for Humans. Professional Themes to choose from, HTML5, Social Media Profiles, Google Authorship.
2. WP Author Box Lite
Author Box Lite creates responsive profile and latest posts box to increase reader engagement.
3. Fancier Author Box by ThematoSoup
Give identity to your single or multi-author WordPress website with Fancier Author Box – The Only Author Box Plugin You’ll Ever Need.
4. Author Box After Posts
Adds an author box after your post contents, with Gravatar and social profile links.
5. Tessa Authorship
“Tessa Authorship” allows to set and handle authorship and relations with every WordPress content that exists on your site.
6. Author Box Plugin With Different Description
This Plugin will add an author box to your post contents. The box contains author’s avatar, name, post count, site link, description, Email, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Pinterest, Youtube, Linkedin.
7. WP Biographia
This plugin allows you to add a customisable biography to posts, to RSS feeds, to pages, to archives and to each post on your blog’s landing page as well as via a widget in your sidebar.
8. Guerrilla’s Author Box
This is a plugin that adds an author box to the end of your posts, showing off the authors name, description, website link and gravatar powered avatar.
9. DT Author Box
DT Author Box is great for those who have multiple authors on a WordPress site and want to show author information at the bottom of every post for each author like a signature.
10. Social Author Bio
Social Author Bio adds a author bio box with the author’s avatar with built-in and custom social icons on pages/posts.
We are glad to hear that you consider StarBox is a must try AuthorBox plugin. – Squirrly Team