Enhance Your Posts with Author Box, Social Links, Co-Authors, Guest Authors, and Post Rating System, including User Registration Form Builder – WP Post Author

July 24, 2024

Enhance Your Posts with Author Box, Social Links, Co-Authors, Guest Authors, and Post Rating System, including User Registration Form Builder – WP Post Author Plugin

Elevate the quality and engagement of your posts with our comprehensive solution! The WP Post Author Box ensures an appealing author display, while th …

Elevate the quality and engagement of your posts with our comprehensive solution! The WP Post Author Box ensures an appealing author display, while the Co-Authors and Guest Authors feature facilitates seamless collaboration. Additionally, our Post Rating System empowers readers to provide valuable feedback. Furthermore, the Drag & Drop Registration Form Builder allows you to generate leads for your business.
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Plugin Features:

WP Post Author is the Best Author Box plugin with social icons and Post Rating System for WordPress.

💁 Post Author Box

WP Post Author box for single post or/and single author page

The main 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.

Auto Append to the Content
Co-Authors and Guest Authors Support
Customizable Author Box
Translatable and Customizable String
Block with customizable option
Widgets with customizable option
Shortcode with customizable option
Profile Tab option on Author Box PRO
Author’s Latest Posts Tab PRO
Author’s Top Rated Posts Tab PRO
Author Rating based on Top Rated Posts PRO
Advance Color Options PRO

👥 Co-Authors

The WordPress post meta box to assign post to Co-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 from the post metabox named, Authors.

Multi-Author option
New Author Creation Form
Supports Co-Authors
Co-Author Rating based on Top Rated Post PRO
Co-Author Profile Tab option on Author Box PRO
Co-Author Latest Posts Tab option on Author Box PRO
Co-Author Top Rated Posts Tab option on Author Box PRO
Single Author Profile Block PRO
All Authors Profile List Block PRO

🎩 Guest Authors

The WordPress panel to create and assign post to guest authors

The module of the plugin has 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.

Dashboard to create Guest Author with details
Dashboard to lists all Guest Authors
Editable the existing Guest Author
Guest Author’s Rating based on Top Rated Post PRO
Guest Author’s Profile Tab option on Author Box PRO
Guest Author’s Latest Posts Tab option on Author Box PRO
Guest Author’s Top Rated Posts Tab option on Author Box PRO
Single Guest Author Profile Block PRO
All Guest Authors Profile Block PRO

⭐ Post Rating System

Enable readers to give star ratings to posts

Introducing the Post Rating system, a valuable feature that enhances user engagement on your website. With this functionality, logged-in readers have the ability to give star ratings to individual posts. This system allows readers to easily provide ratings, helping to highlight the popularity or quality of the posts.

Global Enable/Disable Post Rating Option
Single Post Enable/Disable Post Rating Option
Site-wide Top Rated Posts PRO
Advance Settings PRO
Top Rated Posts Block PRO
Ratings visible on Post List Admin Dashboard PRO
Top Rated Post on General Admin Dashboard PRO
Login page link option for Post Rating PRO
Registration page link option for Post Rating PRO

🔥 Recommended Post

Enable readers to give star ratings to posts

Introducing the Recommended Posts algorithm, a valuable feature that enhances user engagement on your website. With this functionality, users have the ability to get posts list with their preference.

Auto Appended Recommended Post to the content PRO
Recommended Post based on user preference PRO
Advanced Settings for Recommended Post PRO
Recommended Post Block PRO

📋 Registration Form Builder

The WordPress form builder panel to create variety of author registrations forms

The module of the plugin has feature to create and add multiple registrations forms for your website. You can add/update and delete registrations from the builder admin menu, Resgistration Forms.

Customizable Login Form Block
User Registration Form Builder
Fully Customizable Registration Form Block
ReCaptcha Itegration
Social Fields PRO
Login Page Selection Option PRO
Register Page Selection Option PRO

🔒 reCaptcha V2 or V3

You can add reCaptcha (V2 or V3) for your form registration and login

The setting of the plugin has 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 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 informations, Author Registration Block for new post author signups and Author Login Block for user sign-in.

💁 Author Box Block
It has number of input fields to add author informations. The block 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.

💁 User Registration Form Block
You can select and add the specific block from the form builder to page/post in order to allow author registration.

💁 User Login Form Block
You can add the user login block to page/post.

💁 Single Author Bio Block
You can display any selected user’s profile at anywhere with the block editor. PRO

💁 All Authors Bio Block
You can display all user’s profiles at anywhere with the block editor. PRO

💁 Single Guest Author Bio Block
You can display any selected guest user’s profiles at anywhere with the block editor. PRO

💁 All Guest Authors Bio Block
You can display all guest user’s profiles at anywhere with the block editor. PRO

💁 Top Rated Posts Block
You can show site-wide top rated posts at anywhere with the block editor. PRO

💁 Recommended Posts Block
You can show recommended posts based on user’s preferences at anywhere with the block editor. PRO

Legacy Widgets

WP Post Author for 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 number of custom fields like Section Title, Name, Image Upload, Biography along with social links inputs to make 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.

💁 User 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]

title – Any text string.
button_text – Any text string.

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 for the enhancement of the feature.

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License

GPLv2 or later
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the [GNU General Public License][] as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any
later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Installation

Download to your plugin directory or simply install via WordPress admin interface.
Activate.
WP Post Author blocks, widgets, shortcodes will be available for WordPress.
Shortcode [wp-post-author] will be workable.
If configuration instructions needed, go to WP Post Author admin menu and follow the methods.

Screenshots

Post Author Bio Box with Social Icons
Multiple Authors Box - Co-Authors and Guest Authors
Post Rating Section
User Registration Form Builder
ReCaptcha V2/V3 Settings
Guest Author Registration Form
Author Box Block
Author Registration Block
Author Login Block
Author Box Widget
WP Post Author Setting Panel

Changelog

3.7.2

Update: Security Improvement
Update: Rating API Improvement
Update: General Improvement

3.7.1

Update: Security Improvement
Update: Multi-author Improvement
Update: General Improvement

3.7.0

Update: Security Improvement
Update: Multi-author Improvement
Update: General Improvement

3.6.8

Update: Security Improvement
Update: General Improvement

3.6.7

Update: Security Improvement
Update: General Improvement

3.6.6

Update: Security Improvement
Update: General Improvement

3.6.5

Update: Rating Improvement
Update: General Improvement

3.6.4

Update: Rating Improvement
Update: General Improvement

3.6.3

Update: Rating Improvement
Update: General Improvement

3.6.2

Update: Review Star with title Improvement
Update: Rating Improvement
Update: General Improvement

3.6.1

Update: Star ratings on post title Improvement
Update: Blocks keywords Improvement
Update: Video tutorials provided on the dashboard
Update: General Improvement

3.6.0

Update: Co-Author Posts Improvement
Update: PHP 8.2 Compatibility Improvement
Update: FontAwesome 6 Loaded
Update: Twitter Icon Change

3.5.5

Update: Author Posts Improvement
Update: Rating General Improvement

3.5.4

New: Display rating posts title option added
Option Area: Navigate to WP Post Author Dashboard > Rating > Show Reviewed Rating with Post Title
Update: WP Post Author Module Improvement
Update: WP Post Author Dashboard Improvement
Update: WP Post Author Shortcode Improvement
Update: General Improvement

3.5.3

Update: WordPress 6.3 Compatibility
Update: General Improvement

3.5.2

Update: Multi Author archive title improvement
Update: General Improvement

3.5.1

Update: General Improvement

3.5.0

New: Post Rating System introduced
Update: Registration form display based on WordPress settings
Update: General Improvement
Update: Fixed some design glitches

3.4.0

Update: General Improvement
Update: Readme file

3.3.0

Update: API Improvement
Update: Readme file

3.2.0

Update: API Improvement
Update: Readme file

3.1.2

Update: Multi author meta box keys
Update: Readme file

3.1.0

Update: User permission maintied to add specific user based on roles
Update: User permission maintied to edit post for specific user roles

3.0.0

New: Multiple Post Authors support (Co-authors and Guest Authors)
New: Multiple Post Authors box support (Co-authors and Guest Authors)
New: Author registration form builder panel
New: Guest Authors entry panel
New: WordPress (Gutenberg) block for WP Author Box
New: WordPress (Gutenberg) block for WP Author Registration
New: WordPress (Gutenberg) block for WP Author Login
New: Settings for reCaptcha V2 or V3 configuration
New: Settings for SMTP configuration
New: [awpa-registration-form] shortcode for Registration form
New: [awpa-user-login] for login form
New: Co-authors byline function for the theme
Update: Fixed some design glitches

2.0.4

WordPress 5.8 Compatibility Check

2.0.3

Improvement: Image upload issue for Custom Author Box widgets
Update: Fixed email show/hide issue
Update: Fixed email url issue

2.0.2

Update: Image upload issue
Update: Fixed some design glitches

2.0.1

Update: Plugins details

2.0.0

Update: 2 New author widgets added
Update: 2 New social links added(Instagram, Youtube)
Update: Fixed offset issue
Update: Compatibility check with latest WP 5.5