89
Co-Authors, Multiple Authors and Guest Authors in an Author Box with PublishPress Authors
The best way for newsrooms to credit multiple authors per post.
HealthyGrowing
89/100
This plugin offers useful author tools for free despite a high volume of thin reviews.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.9★
112 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+25%
Growing fast
197 → 247 installs/day
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
Growing fast · +25% in the last year
197/day a year ago→247/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayReview trustReviews look organic
- 4.88★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 10%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 112 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-04-28★★★★★It works!nunomura
- 2026-02-13★★★★★greatkcsarioglu1-shot
- 2026-02-02★★★★★Nice Plugintamduy191
- 2026-01-12★★★★★So coolkarasunouta
- 2025-12-23★★★★★works greatcbarnes1980
- 2025-12-03★★★★★Really works!cybil571-shot
- 2025-10-24★★★★★Most helpful toolrkoffe
- 2025-10-20★★★★★Essential for a news siteabldigital
- 2025-09-25★★★★★An essential plugin for any magazine/publishing websiteJosh
- 2025-09-09★★★★★Excellent and easy to use.supakarn
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.
240
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
244
Prior 7-day baseline
181
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
866
Mean release-day peak (30d)
218
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-1.6%
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.
14%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.97
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
93%
5★ share in analyzed sample
10%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-38%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.89 → 4.88★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered