Molongui Authorship

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Whatever your reason for having a blog, whether it’s for business or a personal hobby, it’s important to do it right. In order to boost SEO rankings, gain traffic and leads, you need to have great content on your blog. When it comes to creating great content, it really does matter who is writing. Authorship provides significant benefits: Higher click through rates Higher visibility Higher page views Lower plagiarism Build trust Elevate the role of the writer Establish authority Whether you are a re-known author or not, guest posting is a good strategy for growing your blog readership and platform. “Guest posting” means writing and publishing an article on someone else’s website or blog. If you allow people guest-posting on your site, you need a way to give them credit for their content so it can be a win-win situation for both (you and your guest authors). Authorship is important to the reputation, professional advancement and financial support of bloggers. Molongui Authorship plugin allows you to give credit to any author who writes in your blog, whether it has a registered user on your WordPress installation or not (guest author). Check the plugin features below. Features User profile enhancement – Now you can upload a profile image, define the user job position and company, set social media profile links and more. Guest authors – A custom post-type is defined so guest authors can be chosen as post authors without having to register a new user account on your WordPress site. Author box – Display a fancy author box on all posts, all pages or just on those that you configure. Author info – Data you can set for each author, whether it is a registered user or a guest author: Name, photo, link, job title, company, social media links and biographical info. Related posts – Show related posts from an author to increase page views and session duration. Display settings – Choose whether to show the author box above or below your content. Social Networks – Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, YouTube, Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, Xing, Renren, Vk, Flickr, Vine, Meetup, Sina-weibo, Deviantart, Stumbleupon, Myspace, Yelp, Mixi, SoundCloud, Last.fm, Foursquare and Spotify. Each author can have a different set of social media profiles added. Google Authorship – Automatically get Google Authorship verification. Just add Google+ profile link. Facebook Authorship – Automatically add Facebook Authorship on Posts. Just add Facebook profile link. Actual author – Display the actual author name anyplace on the site: written by, author columns in wp-admin, … Structured data – Help search engines to index your content better and present it more prominently in search results. Theme compatibility – Removes any other author box from the page, so there aren’t duplicates. Responsive. Need more? If you want to customize social media icons style, author box layout and color scheme and much more, then “Molongui Authorship Premium” is what you are looking for. Premium features Guest Author Archive – All posts from a guest author listed in a single page, just like WordPress does with registered users. Just click the guest author’s name to get to it. Enhanced display settings – Select the post type where to display by default the box: only on posts, only on pages, on both, nowhere. Professional Social Networks – LinkedIn, Renren. Premium layouts – More layouts to choose from. Full style customization – Everything within the authorship box can be customized: colors, text sizes, text styles, effects, shapes, icons… Shortcodes – Add as many authorship boxes as it is needed, anywhere. User profile Registered user profile page is enhanced to allow you to: Upload a profile image so no Gravatar account is needed. An author image can be uploaded right from the profile page with the click of a button (WPMU). Set social media profile links. Set user job position and company. Set a custom link to the user own website/blog. Guest authors A custom post-type is defined so guest authors can be chosen as post authors without having a registered account on your WordPress site. Internationalization This plugin is available in the following languages: English Spanish Arabic (translation by Bahr AbdUlrazzak)