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WP Post Author – Author Box, Multiple Authors, Guest Authors & Custom Avatars
A useful author box that constantly begs for a five star review.
HealthyGrowing
73/100
The plugin provides useful author tools but constant upgrade prompts and technical bugs annoy users.
Active installs
~33,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.2★
22 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+82%
Growing fast
338 → 615 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
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 · +82% in the last year
338/day a year ago→615/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWP Post Author is generally praised for working reliably and being easy to use, but users frequently criticize intrusive upgrade prompts and occasional functionality issues.
What people like
- +Functions correctly and performs as expected×2
- +Easy to understand and use
- +Provides useful features for blog owners and authors
Common complaints
- −Intrusive prompts to leave a review or upgrade to the pro version appear frequently×2
- −Avatar does not display and documentation points to a non-existent admin menu
- −Plugin loads foreign Stripe JavaScript files unnecessarily
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.19★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.20★
- 5%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 29% 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 · 22 total
Latest reviews · 22 analyzed
- 2026-05-21★★★★★Works good, but stop nagging me.angryjerknxc
- 2026-04-28★★★★★Super Toolrockstroh
- 2025-12-17★★★★★I loveiamfels22
- 2025-11-12★★★★★Doesn't even work righthoffman1030
- 2024-10-20★★★★★still trying to figure it all outraoulbtc
- 2024-09-18★★★★★FantasticYodaSec Expose
- 2023-12-05★★★★★It's great and coolmandatory1958
- 2023-10-09★★★★★Very usefulascen7
- 2023-09-28★★★★★great toolKurt Dillon
- 2023-09-15★★★★★A very easy to use and feature rich plug-inbmiller22000
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.
723
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
663
Prior 7-day baseline
716
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
4,663
Mean release-day peak (30d)
769
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+9.0%
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.
29%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.11
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
77%
5★ share in analyzed sample
5%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.23 → 4.19★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered