Post Author
Display author, writing and editing date - fully customizable for content, excerpt, home, archive... with exceptions. Great for multi-author websites.
Post Author ranks #13,477 among WordPress.org plugins with 100+ active installations, a 5/5 rating from 0 reviews, and was last updated Feb 10, 2014. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
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Source: WPVulnerability1 known vulnerability on record · 1 in the last 24 months · checked 1 month ago
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Post Author [post-author] <= 1.1.1 (unfixed + closed)
CVE-2025-28950 · No fix released
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- Version
- 1.1.1
- Last Updated
- Feb 10, 2014
- Requires WP
- N/A+
- Tested Up To
- 3.7
- PHP Version
- N/A
- Author
- David Shabtai
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- Rating
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- Reviews
- 0
- Support Threads
- 0
- Resolved
- 0%
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TL;DR
AI summary of the plugin's readmeThis plugin is for owners of multi-author blogs, magazines, and collaborative publications who want articles credited to individual authors. It solves the problem of displaying author names, publication dates, and revision info in a fully customizable, per-post way instead of leaving content anonymous.
- Displays author name and avatar
- Shows date of first publication
- Shows author and date of last revision
- Per-post/per-page hide exception
- Link author name to author page or URL
- Custom before/after text labels
- Works on posts, pages, archives, home
- Integrates with qTranslate via Quicktags
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