WP Post Author is the best Author Box plugin for any WordPress post that includes social icons. Authors, co-authors, multiple authors, and guest authors can all be included in an article. It also includes a user registration form builder with drag-and-drop functionality and a login form. Additionally, it includes Gutenberg blocks, widgets, and shortcodes for the Author box and sign-in/signup forms.
PLUGIN FEATURES: #
Post author box
WP Post Author box for single post or/and single author page
The main module of the author box has the Section Title option, its content alignment, i.e left/right/center, and your profile image shapes. The plugin also adds a number of social contacts custom fields. It fetches the data from the default WordPress user profile dashboard.
Multiple Post Authors
The WordPress post meta box to assign post to multiple authors and guest Authors
The module of the plugin has feature to create and add multiple authors and guest authors for a single post. You can add/update and delete registered users and guest authors from the post metabox named, Authors.
Co-Authors
The WordPress post meta box to assign post to co-Authors
The module of the plugin has the feature to create and add multiple authors and guest authors for a single post. You can add/update and delete registered users from the post metabox named, Authors.
Guest Authors
The WordPress panel to create and assign post to guest authors
The module of the plugin has a feature to add create and add multiple guest authors for a single post. You can add/update and delete registered authors from the admin menu named, Guest Authors.
Author Registration Form Builder
The WordPress form builder panel to create variety of author registrations forms
The module of the plugin has a feature to create and add multiple registration forms for your website. You can add/update and delete registrations from the builder admin menu, Registration Forms.
reCaptcha V2 or V3
You can add reCaptcha (V2 or V3) for your form registration and login
The setting of the plugin has a feature to add reCaptcha for registrations/login forms for your website.
Custom Mail SMTP configuration
You can set either default WordPress mail setting or Custom SMTP configuration
The setting of the plugin has a feature to select between default WordPress email or custom SMTP configuration for registrations/login emails for your website.
WORDPRESS (GUTENBERG) BLOCKS #
WP Post Author plugin contains 3 Gutenberg blocks. Author Box Block for the post author information, Author Registration Block for new post author signups, and Author Login Block for user sign-in.
Author Box Block
It has a number of input fields to add author information. The block module of the author box has a Section Title option, its content alignment, i.e left/right/center, and your profile image shapes. The plugin also adds a number of social contacts custom fields.
Author Registration Form Block
You can select and add the specific block from the form builder to the page/post in order to allow author registration.
Author Login Form Block
You can add the user login block to the page/post.
LEGACY WIDGETS #
WP Post Author for a single post and single author page
The widget module of the author box has Section Title option, it’s content alignment, i.e left/right/center and your profile image shapes. The plugin also adds number of social contacts custom fields. It fetches the data from default WordPress’s user profile dashboard.
WP Posts Author Widget
It reads the post’s author data from their WordPress profile dashboard.
WP Posts Author (Specific) Widget
You can enter the specific user id to read the selected author data from their WordPress profile dashboard.
WP Posts Author (Custom) Widget
The widgets have a number of custom fields like Section Title, Name, Image Upload, and Biography along with social links inputs to make a custom author box.
SHORTCODES #
The plugin also powers shortcode option for your posts/pages builder and third party widgets with having number of attributes to make the author box approriate.
Author Box
[wp-post-author]
- title – Any text string.
- align – left, right, or center.
- image-layout – square or round.
- show-role – true or false.
- show-email – true or false.
Author Registration Form
[awpa-registration-form]
- title – Any text string.
- form_id – Registration Form ID, i.e. any whole number.
Author Login Form
[awpa-user-login]
- echo – False.
- redirect – Current Page URL
- label_log_in – Login
- form_id – awpa-user-login
- label_username – Username
- label_password – Password
- label_remember – Remember Me
- remember – true.
SOCIAL AND LINKS OPTIONS #
- Facebook – Display if available (Custom User Field).
- Instagram – Display if available (Custom User Field).
- YouTube – Display if available (Custom User Field).
- Twitter – Display if available (Custom User Field).
- LinkedIn – Display if available (Custom User Field).
- Email – Display if available.
- Website – Display if available.
MULTIPLE AUTHORS BYLINE SUPPORT TO THE THEME #
If you’ve just installed WP Post Author, it will add a post author box with multiple authors under the content. You might notice that the bylines are being added in the backend but aren’t appearing on the frontend. You’ll need to add the function to your theme before the bylines will appear.
if(class_exists(‘WP_Post_Author’)){ awpa_ma_multi_authors_list_post(); } else{ theme original code or function}
We are also working on the enhancement of the feature.