Molongui Authorship Pro 1.7.4

The Molongui Authorship Pro is a premium, comprehensive WordPress plugin that specializes in advanced author management, co-authoring, and professional display of author information.

It is designed for multi-contributor blogs, news sites, and professional publications that need clean, SEO-friendly, and highly customizable author attribution.

✨ Key Features of Molongui Authorship Pro

The plugin is a powerful toolkit for managing authorship beyond WordPress's default capabilities. While the free version offers basic features, the PRO version unlocks crucial functionality for professional sites:

Feature Category

PRO Feature Highlight

Benefit

Co-Authors

Unlimited Co-Authors: Easily add multiple authors (registered users or guest authors) to a single post via a simple dropdown.

Credit everyone involved in a collaborative post, essential for team writing and SEO.

Guest Authors

Dedicated Guest Author Pages: Creates separate archive pages for guest authors, even without a registered user account.

Boosts the credibility and personal branding of one-time contributors and improves search visibility (E-E-A-T).

Author Box

Premium Layouts & Customization: Provides additional professional author box templates, advanced conditional logic, and support for rich text, media, and third-party shortcodes in the author bio.

Creates a highly engaging, custom-designed profile that encourages readers to view more related posts.

SEO & E-E-A-T

Schema Markup Integration: Adds proper Schema.org markup to author boxes and bylines (for both single and co-authored posts).

Helps Google properly attribute content creators, which is vital for Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness (E-E-A-T) signals.

Author Listing

Author List Shortcode: Includes a shortcode to display a customizable list of authors (with filtering options by user role, pagination, and different layouts).

Perfect for creating a professional Contributors Page or a Meet the Team section.

Management Tools

1-Click User to Guest Converter: Quickly converts unused user accounts (created just for one post) into guest authors while preserving post credit.

Helps clean up the WordPress user database without losing historical post attribution.

Avatars

Local Avatar Support: Allows users to upload their own profile picture instead of relying solely on Gravatar.

Offers complete control over the author's visual identity on your site.

Compatibility

Supports Custom Post Types and includes tools for 1-click migration from popular alternatives like Co-Authors Plus.

Ensures the functionality works across all content types and allows for easy platform switching.

In summary, Molongui Authorship Pro is an excellent solution for anyone running a serious content platform who needs granular control over who is credited, how they are credited (guest or co-author), and where that information is displayed (in the byline, author box, and author archive).

Are you looking to use the plugin mainly for co-authoring or for guest author management?