by WebFactory 4.3 (114 reviews)

Simple Author Box

Name: Simple Author Box
Rating: 4.3 (114 reviews)
Author: WebFactory

Add a responsive author box or guest author box with social icons to any post. Great author box for any site!

Simple Author Box ranks #492 among WordPress.org plugins with 90,000+ active installations, a 4.3/5 rating from 114 reviews, and was last updated Aug 16, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v2.61 Current Version v2.61

Updated 1 month ago Last Update on 16 Aug, 2026

Refreshed 12 hours ago Last Refreshed on

Top 1% by installs Downloads -15.3% this week

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1.6M

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Support Resolved

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Rating

86%

Review 4.3 out of 5

4.3 (114 reviews)

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Reviews & Ratings

4.3

114 reviews

Overall 86%

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

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

Jul 24, 2023

Simple Author Box [simple-author-box] < 2.52

CVE-2023-3601 · Fixed in v2.52
Jul 18, 2023

Simple Author Box [simple-author-box] < 2.4

CVE-2023-33999 · Fixed in v2.4
Mar 29, 2023

Simple Author Box [simple-author-box] < 2.51

Fixed in v2.51
Mar 28, 2023

Simple Author Box [simple-author-box] < 2.51

Fixed in v2.51

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Plugin Details

Version: 2.61
Last Updated: Aug 16, 2026
Requires WP: 4.6+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 5.6 or higher
Author: WebFactory

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4.3
Reviews: 114
Support Threads: 1
Resolved: 100%

Keywords

Author Profile author bio author box author social icons guest author

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners and bloggers who want to display author information, including guest authors, at the end of posts. It solves the problem of manually building an author bio section by automatically generating a responsive author box with gravatar, name, description, and social icons.

Shows author gravatar and bio
Displays social profile icons
Fully customizable style and colors
Responsive on mobile and desktop
Automatic insertion at post end
Manual template insertion option
RTL language support
AMP support

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Simple Author Box

The Simple Author Box plugin was designed to display the author information on posts, categories, tags, etc. The plugin does not work on pages – it was not designed for this, unfortunately. Adding the shortcode on a blog page will also not work because the plugin won’t have author information to display/will not know which author information to display. Adding the shortcode in a widget that is on a page is another instance when the SAB will not be displayed due to the same reasons. You can add it in a widget, but that widget has to be on a single post.

You should add there your phone number, for more information read this

You should add there your username, for more information read this

The PRO version of Simple Author Box fixes this.

Yes, but we also have two awesome widgets in the PRO version.

The second author box might be a theme feature and you will need to turn it off from your theme’s options, or hide it with custom CSS.

You can use 2 plugins in order to do this: Polylang or WPML. Here it is how to translate an author's biography with each plugin: Polylang

WPML In order to translate the "Biographical Info" using this plugin you have to have the wpml-string-translation plugin installed and the following configurations made: In the String Translation settings at the bottom you will see a "More options" setting. Click "Edit" then select "Author" from there and finally click "Apply". After this, in the filters above, at "Select strings within domain" select "Authors". This will reveal the strings that can be translated from the author role.

When adding a widget in the widget area you can select the content block to display and there you will also see a checkbox titled "Do not apply content filters". Checking this checkbox will prevent the author box from displaying for that custom post. When using a shortcode, example [content_block id=41] you can stop the author box from displaying by using one of these shortocodes instead: [content_block id=41 suppress_content_filters=true] or [content_block id=41 suppress_filters=true], both work.

You can get free support either here on the support forums: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-author-box.