Are you looking for the best WordPress author bio plugins? There are several excellent plugins available that can help you display the author’s biography and their social media profiles on every blog post.
Let us check them in detail,
Best Author Bio Plugins for WordPress 2025
These are our favorite author bio plugins for WordPress.
1. Simple Author Box
Simple Author Box is one of the best WordPress author bio plugins. It shows the author’s name, avatar, biography, and website at the end of the posts. It is integrated with more than 30 social media accounts.
2. Starbox
Starbox is another free author box plugin for WordPress. It is packed with professional-quality templates to display your author profiles in attractive designs. Insert your author box at the top or bottom of the post with social media icons to build a strong portfolio and expand your social network.
It is easy to use and customizable. The plugin allows you to set a unique theme for your profile and upload a custom image if required. This way, it helps you to override your default Gravatar image easily.
3. WP Post Author
WP Post Author is another free author box plugin for WordPress bloggers. It will show the author’s avatar, name, and designation on all author-related posts with social media page links.
There are multiple author widgets to showcase your biography on single posts and author pages.
WP Post Author collects data from the author’s profile dashboard and displays them to inform readers about your career background, recent posts, social links, etc. You can place author boxes anywhere on WordPress using a short code or through plugin settings.
4. Meks Smart Author Widget
Smart Author Widget is a great plugin that shows an author’s biography on WordPress. It automatically detects post authors and shows their details on single posts and author archives.
The plugin is customizable in terms of avatar image size, avatar image link, and user display name link, and you can replace the widget title with the user display name if needed.
5. Avatar
Avatar is a powerful author bio solution for Elementor websites. It helps readers to know more about the authors and to contact them personally through social sites.
The plugin has a block-based editor to add or remove sections like user pictures, names, biographies, icons, etc. There is a built-in image editor to beautify author images using CSS filters. Avatar is best for showcasing single or multiple authors in a post.
6. Molongui Authorship
Molongui Authorship will show the writer’s biography, social media icons, and related author posts at the bottom of the post. For guest authors, you can create their profiles without creating accounts. It also allows you to display multiple authors for a single post.
7. PublishPress Authors
PublishPress Authors is a freemium author bio plugin for WordPress. It lets you show beautiful author boxes in every blog post.
Not only one author, it allows you to feature multiple authors if needed. You will see an option to add multiple authors in the post editor. PublishPress Authors retrieve all their user data and display them on the front end. This way, you can show unlimited authors on your blog posts.
Creating guest authors is another interesting feature of the plugin. No need to create separate user accounts for guest bloggers. However, they can have a custom author bio section and their own archive page to list all their blog posts.
PublishPress Authors offers five different layouts for authors: simple list, boxed, centered, inline, and inline with avatars.
Are you using any author bio plugins? Which is your favorite?
Hello Manoj,
This is Emmanuel with kabenlah.com. When it comes to author box, it appears I have to leave that to my blog’s theme as it has that covered.
But these are indeed lovely plugins and Fancier Author seem to be the favourite of many bloggers.
Hi Leau,
We can surely say that Starbox is an awesome choice for WordPress users. Smart and elegant.
Thanks for your comment.
regards,
Hello Manoj,
This is great post and I really love that you spent your time to save mine. 😀 😀 Now in future if I have to select a plugin I will visit your blogpost and will select one among them. Selecting a good plugin is use to be a kind oh headache. When I started my blog I really got confused about which plugin to install and which one to avoid. I really appreciate this. 🙂 (y) keep posting rocking content.
-Nitin
We are glad to hear that you consider StarBox is a must try AuthorBox plugin. – Squirrly Team
Hi Leau,
We can surely say that Starbox is an awesome choice for WordPress users. Smart and elegant.
Thanks for your comment.
regards,
Hi,
phpbits here, Thanks a lot for including WP Author Box. I hope you’ll find this amazing plugin very useful. Thanks!
Cheers!
Hello Manoj,
This is great post and I really love that you spent your time to save mine. 😀 😀 Now in future if I have to select a plugin I will visit your blogpost and will select one among them. Selecting a good plugin is use to be a kind oh headache. When I started my blog I really got confused about which plugin to install and which one to avoid. I really appreciate this. 🙂 (y) keep posting rocking content.
-Nitin