63
Molongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress
Stellar support helps you navigate a bumpy codebase.
DecliningReview burst
63/100
The plugin provides excellent customization and support despite occasional bugs and performance issues.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.7★
157 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-16%
Declining
85 → 71 installs/day
Warnings
- Reviews concentrated in a single month — usually a marketing push or paid wave.
What to watch out for
- MAJOR35% of reviews in one month (2023-12-17)
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining · -16% in the last year
85/day a year ago→71/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayMolongui Authorship is praised for its responsive, knowledgeable support and flexible author-box features, but users report code bugs, outdated documentation, and performance or compatibility problems on larger or complex sites.
What people like
- +Support is fast, knowledgeable and helpful, often resolving issues within hours.×11
- +The plugin offers extensive customization options and an attractive author box design.×2
- +Compatibility issues are addressed quickly by the developers.×2
- +Users find the Pro version worthwhile for its added features and support.×2
Common complaints
- −The code base has bugs, missing or outdated documentation, and other oversights.×3
- −Performance degrades on sites with large numbers of users, causing slow admin pages and heavy queries.
- −Compatibility problems occur with certain themes and after WordPress core updates.×3
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.43★Verified rating — drops from 4.70★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
- 22%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 35% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 157 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-03-13★★★★★Codebase very flawedJeff Chi
- 2026-01-19★★★★★Top-notch supportdmc20261-shot
- 2025-03-04★★★★★Support team is amazingkaitlinamalthea
- 2025-02-27★★★★★By Far the Best Co-Author Pluginevisionarts
- 2025-01-28★★★★★Top tier support response timecmenglish
- 2024-11-24★★★★★Best supportCatalin Dumitru
- 2024-09-26★★★★★Insanely great support for a great pluginaltimac
- 2024-07-22★★★★★Best but Needs bug fixingJohn
- 2024-07-16★★★★★performance problems unresolved after 8 mobeardev
- 2024-06-24★★★★★Awesome Support Team! Fantastic PluginSujit B
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
75
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
72
Prior 7-day baseline
55
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
157
Mean release-day peak (30d)
75
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+4.2%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
35%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.21
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
86%
5★ share in analyzed sample
22%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.56 → 4.43★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered