10 Best Starbox Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Starbox has 10,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Starbox
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Molongui Authorship
Closest matchMolongui Authorship – Author Boxes, Guest Authors & Co-Authors for WordPress
4.7 (158) 10,000+ active installsAll-in-One Authorship Solution: Seamless Author Box, Guest Authors, and Co-Authors to enhance your site's authority, credibility, engagement, and SEO.
Shares the author bio, author box, multiple authors tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, rated 4.7 against 4.5, last updated 8 days ago.
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4.9 (114) 20,000+ active installsPublishPress Authors is the best plugin for adding authors, co-authors, multiple authors and guest authors to WordPress posts.
Shares the author bio, multiple authors tags on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, rated 4.9 against 4.5, last updated 18 days ago.
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4.3 (114) 90,000+ active installsAdd a responsive author box or guest author box with social icons to any post. Great author box for any site!
Shares the author bio, author box tags on WordPress.org. About 9 times the installs, rated 4.3 against 4.5, last updated 21 days ago.
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WP Post Author – Author Box, Multiple Authors, Guest Authors & Custom Avatars
4.2 (22) 10,000+ active installsWP Post Author is the ultimate solution for an Author Box, Multiple Authors, Guest Authors, and Local Avatars. Easily manage Author Bios, Co-authors, …
Shares the author bio, author box tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 11 days ago.
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4.9 (55) 3,000+ active installsHide usernames in Author Pages URLs to enhance Security
Shares the author, users tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, rated 4.9 against 4.5, no update since April 17, 2024.
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Author Avatars List/Block
4.8 (32) 4,000+ active installsDisplay lists of user avatars using widgets or shortcodes. With Gutenberg support.
Shares the author tag on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, last updated 30 days ago.
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4.8 (84) 100,000+ active installsAllows an admin (or capable user) to edit the author slug of a user, and change the author base.
Shares the author tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.5, no update since May 27, 2025.
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4.2 (71) 90,000+ active installsRemove meta author and date information from posts and pages. Hide from Humans and Search engines.SEO friendly and most advance plugin.
Shares the author tag on WordPress.org. About 9 times the installs, rated 4.2 against 4.5, last updated May 31, 2026.
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(Simply) Guest Author Name
4.7 (23) 2,000+ active installsCreate a post and override the author name with one or more names or text. You can also create a link for the author name field
Shares the author tag on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, last updated February 22, 2026.
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5.0 (22) 5,000+ active installsUse a shortcode to display a list or grid of post authors (or any other user role) and links to their post archives page.
Shares the author tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated November 24, 2025.
Switching from Starbox: common questions
What is the best alternative to Starbox?
Molongui Authorship is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 10,000+ active installs with a 4.7 out of 5 rating.
Which Starbox alternative has the most users?
Edit Author Slug, with 100,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Starbox alternative is rated highest?
Co-Authors, Multiple Authors and Guest Authors in an Author Box with PublishPress Authors, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 114 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Starbox alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Starbox score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Starbox on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Molongui Authorship is the closest match to Starbox by the data we track, and Edit Author Slug has the widest reach with 100,000+ active installs. Molongui Authorship shipped the most recent release, on August 30, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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