by SEO Squirrly 4.5 (203 reviews)

Starbox – the Author Box for Humans

Name: Starbox – the Author Box for Humans
Rating: 4.5 (203 reviews)
Author: SEO Squirrly

Starbox is the Author Box for Humans. Professional Themes to choose from, HTML5, Social Media Profiles, Google Authorship

Starbox ranks #1,903 among WordPress.org plugins with 10,000+ active installations, is #251 of 8,543 in the Customization category, a 4.5/5 rating from 203 reviews, and was last updated May 9, 2025. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.8.8 (Current: 7.1)

v3.5.4 Current Version v3.5.4

Updated 1 year ago Last Update on 09 May, 2025

Refreshed 11 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#251 of 8,543 in Customization Top 5% by installs Downloads -31.9% this week No update in over a year

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Rank

#1,903

-1 this week

Active Installs

10K+

-27.3%

KW Avg Position

19.5

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Downloads

523.4K

+11 today

Support Resolved

— No change

Rating

90%

Review 4.5 out of 5

4.5 (203 reviews)

Next Milestone 20K

Total Progress 39.8%

10K+ 20K+

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Reviews & Ratings

4.5

203 reviews

Overall 90%

157 (77%)

21 (10%)

4 (2%)

8 (4%)

13 (6%)

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

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

Sep 9, 2024

Starbox – the Author Box for Humans [starbox] < 3.5.3

CVE-2024-8239 · Fixed in v3.5.3
Aug 20, 2024

Starbox – the Author Box for Humans [starbox] < 3.5.2

CVE-2024-7955 · Fixed in v3.5.2
Feb 13, 2024

Starbox – the Author Box for Humans [starbox] < 3.5.0

CVE-2024-1273 · Fixed in v3.5.0
Feb 6, 2024

Starbox – the Author Box for Humans [starbox] < 3.5.0

CVE-2023-6806 · Fixed in v3.5.0
Jan 31, 2024

Starbox – the Author Box for Humans [starbox] < 3.5.0

CVE-2024-0256 · Fixed in v3.5.0
Jan 30, 2024

Starbox – the Author Box for Humans [starbox] < 3.4.8

CVE-2024-0366 · Fixed in v3.4.8

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Plugin Details

Version: 3.5.4
Last Updated: May 09, 2025
Requires WP: 4.6+
Tested Up To: 6.8.8
PHP Version: 7.0 or higher
Author: SEO Squirrly

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5
Reviews: 203
Support Threads: 1
Resolved: 0%

Keywords

author author bio author box multiple authors users

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

Starbox is aimed at bloggers and site owners with one or more authors who want an author box displayed on their posts or pages. It solves the problem of readers not connecting with the people behind the content by showing author bios, photos, social media links, and post archives in a customizable box.

HTML5 markup
Google Microformats (vCard) support
Social media profile links
Latest posts by author section
Multiple author themes
Shortcode [starbox] support
Google Authorship setup
Custom author images upload

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Starbox – the Author Box for Humans

You have to fill the google and facebook social accounts in your profile and it will show up.

We're following the threads and based on them we always try to build up new and better implementations for the Author Box for Humans. If you want Premium Support, that also comes with High Priority, then go to: http://starbox.squirrly.co/product/starbox-the-author-box-for-humans/

It will help you have a premium email from us, on which you can get super-fast support. http://starbox.squirrly.co/product/starbox-the-author-box-for-humans/ After you buy it, it will show you the email on which you can write to us for Premium and Fast Support

Just add [starbox] or [starbox id="login_name"] in your post or widget.. You can also add different description for the author box, by adding [starbox id="login_name" desc="custom description" ] And more than that, you can add a default theme for author box [starbox id="login_name" desc="custom description" theme="business"]

You can use startbox shortcode at the bottom of the content like this: [starbox id="john,david"] where john and david are the username of the authors or [starbox id="1,2,3..n"] where 1,2,3 .. n are the ID of the authors

You can count on it :-) Our team of 8 people over at Squirrly (registered in the UK) are focused on making both our wordpress seo plugin and our author box plugin the best there are. So far we succeeded in making them one of the most popular, because we listen to your feedback and you're the reason for their success.