Co-Authors Plus is a WordPress app, with a 3.5 average rating from 77 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Co-Authors Plus is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Automattic. With a rating of 3.5★ from 77 reviews.
AppRanks verdict
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Co-Authors Plus is a mixed-rating WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 77 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +Published by Automattic — established developer track record
Cons
- −Average rating below 4.0 (3.5★) — read recent low-star reviews before committing
- −Limited review base (77) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Co-Authors Plus works
Assign multiple bylines to posts, pages, and custom post types via a search-as-you-type input box. Co-authored posts appear on a co-author’s archive page and in their feed. Co-authors may edit the posts they are associated with, and co-authors who are contributors may only edit posts if they have not been published (as is core behavior).
Add writers as bylines without creating WordPress user accounts. Simply create a guest author profile for the writer and assign the byline as you normally would.
On the frontend, use the Co-Authors Plus template tags or the block editor blocks to list co-authors anywhere you’d normally list the author.
Documentation
Usage — themer and site-owner guides live on the GitHub Wiki: template tags, blocks, guest author management, and multisite.
Developer reference — lives in-repo under docs/ (not bundled in the distribution ZIP):
Filters and actions
REST API
Upgrading to 4.0
Co-Authors Plus is an almost complete rewrite of the Co-Authors plugin originally developed by Weston Ruter (2007). The original plugin was inspired by the ‘Multiple Authors‘ plugin by Mark Jaquith (2005).
Keyword rankings
Co-Authors Plus ranks for 1 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 1:
- Rank #323
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Frequently asked questions
What is Co-Authors Plus?
Co-Authors Plus is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 3.5-star rating from 77 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Automattic.