by Molongui 4.7 (158 reviews)

Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress

Name: Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress
Rating: 4.7 (158 reviews)
Author: Molongui

All-in-One Authorship Solution: Seamless Author Box, Guest Authors, and Co-Authors to enhance your site's authority, credibility, engagement, and SEO.

Molongui Authorship ranks #1,729 among WordPress.org plugins with 10,000+ active installations, is #251 of 8,547 in the Customization category, a 4.7/5 rating from 158 reviews, and was last updated Sep 11, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v5.2.12 Current Version v5.2.12

Updated 5 days ago Last Update on 11 Sep, 2026

Refreshed 6 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#251 of 8,547 in Customization Top 5% by installs Downloads +160.1% this week Actively maintained

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#1,729

-1 this week

Active Installs

10K+

-38.8%

KW Avg Position

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Downloads

603.1K

+62 today

Support Resolved

67%

— No change

Rating

94%

Review 4.7 out of 5

4.7 (158 reviews)

Next Milestone 20K

Total Progress 61.5%

10K+ 20K+

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8,000,000

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Reviews & Ratings

4.7

158 reviews

Overall 94%

142 (90%)

3 (2%)

2 (1%)

8 (5%)

Support Threads Overview

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Unresolved

Total Threads

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Unresolved

67%

Resolution Rate

Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

6 known vulnerabilities on record · 0 in the last 24 months · checked 1 week ago

Mar 28, 2024

Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress [molongui-authorship] < 4.7.8

CVE-2024-30507 · Fixed in v4.7.8
Mar 25, 2024

Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress [molongui-authorship] < 4.7.8

CVE-2024-29764 · Fixed in v4.7.8
Jan 16, 2024

Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress [molongui-authorship] < 4.7.5

CVE-2023-7014 · Fixed in v4.7.5
Dec 26, 2023

Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress [molongui-authorship] < 4.7.4

CVE-2023-50876 · Fixed in v4.7.4
Nov 28, 2023

Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress [molongui-authorship] < 4.6.20

CVE-2023-39921 · Fixed in v4.6.20
Jul 26, 2023

Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress [molongui-authorship] < 4.6.20

CVE-2023-39164 · Fixed in v4.6.20

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Plugin Details

Version: 5.2.12
Last Updated: Sep 11, 2026
Requires WP: 5.2+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 5.6.20 or higher
Author: Molongui

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7
Reviews: 158
Support Threads: 6
Resolved: 67%

Keywords

author bio author box co-authors guest author multiple authors

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners and publishers who need to credit multiple contributors, including guest writers and co-authors. It solves the problem of properly attributing content authorship with customizable author bio boxes, guest author profiles without user accounts, and multi-author bylines.

Customizable author box
Guest author profiles
Co-author support
Social media icons
Schema markup for SEO
1-click migration from other plugins
AMP/RTL support
Drag-and-drop author ordering

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress

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.

Yes.

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.

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.

Yes. You need the Pro version of the plugin to enjoy the features on custom post types.

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.

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.

Those social media networks which are intended for business and professional networking are only available in the Pro version of the plugin.

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

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.