Websites with larger content teams often do not have enough WordPress func­tion­al­i­ty. Extended functions are needed to adjust rights and roles exactly and to flexibly control the pre­sen­ta­tion of authors.
Spe­cial­ized plugins help you to set cus­tomized author rights and access rights and to optimize and restrict the admin area, editor and available functions for the role of the author.
We have compiled for you the best free plugins for managing author rights and pre­sent­ing author profiles.

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Assign con­tri­bu­tions to multiple authors

Co-Authors Plus

With Co-Authors Plus you assign several authors to a text. Es­pe­cial­ly longer texts, which have to be published within a short time, often require the co­op­er­a­tion of several authors. After in­stal­la­tion, a window appears under each text field in which you can specify all authors.

Image: Co-Authors Plus overview page
Co-Authors Plus overview page

Manage and customize author rights

User Role Editor

With the easy-to-un­der­stand User Role Editor plugin, you can customize the rights of in­di­vid­ual user roles in great detail.

You can assign or deny a total of 62 different rights in areas such as pages, media, plug-ins, articles, etc. This could be deleting images, posts, comments or in­stalling new plugins.

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User Role Editor

members

You can also use members to determine author rights in the­mat­i­cal­ly sub­di­vid­ed areas. You can create as many user roles as you want and define valid rights for each user role. You can also assign two or more roles to users.

Image: Overview of rights assignment in Members
Overview of rights as­sign­ment

Role Scoper

You can use Role Scoper to create and customize roles and customize re­stric­tions in detail. You can provide your users with various parts of the website and deny them access to certain pages or cat­e­gories. This allows you to control exactly which content is visible for certain roles in the frontend and backend of your website.

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Role Scoper

Authors present

User Photo

With the User Photo plugin you can assign photos to your authors. These photos are displayed next to the author's name in comments. A good al­ter­na­tive if you don't want to rely on a service like Gravatar.

Image: User Photo in use
User Photo in use

Latest Posts by Author with Content

With Latest Posts by Author with Content you can include the last con­tri­bu­tions of an author on the page of his con­tri­bu­tion. You can set how many posts are displayed by inserting a code below the posts:

latestbyauthor author="username" show="3" excerpt="true"
  • Author="username": Logon name of the user (separate several authors by comma: author="username1, username2")
  • show="x": x de­ter­mines the number of displayed posts.
  • excerpt="true": Only excerpts that you entered manually are displayed. (If available)
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Latest Posts by Author with content
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