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Starbox – the Author Box for Humans

Starbox is the Author Box for Humans. Professional Themes to choose from, HTML5, Social Media Profiles, Google Authorship

Rating:

4.5

Active Installations:

20000+

Last Updated:

Jan 06, 2025

WordPress Version:

4.6 or higher

Tested up to:

6.7.2

Features Download’s trend Changelog Reviews

Premium Support

Get social icons and high priority support

Gorgeous Author Box

Engage readers with a beautiful author box

Boost Social Proof

Highlight your star authors and their social profiles

Easy Setup

Set up your author box in minutes with no coding required

Author’s Site

3.5.3

Update the social URL validation
Change call to static in tools
Add the option to remove Posts from Sitemap News in Google News
Add the option to set SEO Automation for each language with WPML plugin

3.5.2

Update plugin style and layouts
Fixed compatibility with default WP Themes like Twenty Twenty-Four

3.5.1

Update compatibility with WP 6.5
Fixed PHP error when $post is not found

3.5.0

Update security on User setting
Fixed Small Bugs

3.4.8

Update compatibility with PHP 8.3
Update compatibility with WP 6.4.1

3.4.7

Updated the social icons as fontawesome
Updated the twitter icon
Update compatibility with PHP 8.2
Update compatibility with WP 6.4

3.4.6

Added compatibility with PHP 8.1, 8.2

3.4.5

Added compatibility with WP 6.1.x

3.4.4

Added hooks for profile image “abh_author_profile_image” to load different images for an author
Added hooks for latest posts query “abh_author_latest_posts” to add custom query in the Latest Posts section
Added compatibility with WP 5.8.x

3.4.3

Added compatibility with WP 5.7.2

3.4.2

Fixed the wp-content URL when WP_CONTENT_URL is defined and UPLOAD is not custom
Added compatibility with WP 5.5.1

3.4.0

Added compatibility with WP 5.5
Added compatibility with custom UPLOAD paths

3.3.4

Load jQuery if not queued
Added Compatilibty with more WP themes
Author Box Compatible with WordPress 5.4.1

3.3.3

Author Box Compatible with WordPress 5.4
Fixed the images issue in frontend
Fixed the Dropbox CSS issue with the new tags

3.3.2

Removed header H3 and H4 from Author Box
Hide duplicate author box from more themes

3.3.1

Updated view for default theme
Don’t show authors on api request
Fixed warnings when user doesn’t have Bio

3.3.0

Added the Author Schema for 2020 in vcard
CSS compatibility update for more themes

3.2.9

Compatible with WordPress 5.3.2

3.2.8

Compatible with WordPress 5.3.1
Added noopener and noreferrer options for social media links
Fixed compatibility with PHP 7.4

3.2.8

Compatible with WordPress 5.3
Fixed the wp-content/uploads URL error for HTTPS websites.
Update the shortcode with order and orderby params

3.2.6

Compatible with WordPress 5.2.1

3.2.5

Fixed the Image upload when the PHP gd extension is missing

3.2.4

Added ABH_AUTHORLINK constant to hide the author link
Added ABH_IMAGESIZE constant to set the author image size

3.2.3

Changes the resize image to 250px
Compatible with WordPress 5.1.1

3.2.2

Added target option in links
Compatible with WordPress 5.1

3.2.1

Compatible with WordPress 5.0.3
Fixed image upload for gravatar when image has caps chars in the file name

3.2.0

Compatible with WordPress 5.0
Fixed gravatar directory in case there are no write permissions in uploads dir
Fixed CSS issue and compatibilities with more themes

3.1.9

Fixed drop-down see all click event

3.1.8

Compatible with more theme and plugins
Fixed small bugs for PHP 7.2
Added Nofollow for author URL

3.1.6

Update Starbox CSS loading conflict
Fixed the Error: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/xxxxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/starbox/classes/ObjController.php on line 146
Fixed the Error: Starbox Note: No file was uploaded

3.1.5

Fixed the shortcode for Starbox

3.1.4

Fixed the loading image issue for new posts
Updated the GDPR Terms

3.1.3

Removed Klout Social Channel

3.1.2

Added security filters on Settings saved
Updated the Profile Upload Image process
Compatible with WP 4.9.6

3.1.1

Let BIO with links in Custom Author Bio
Compatible with WP 4.9.4

3.1.0

Fixed security issues with param sanitize
Fixed the nonce issue on save settings

3.0.8

Compatible with Woocommerce 3
Compatible with WP 4.8.2

3.0.6

Compatible with Woocommerce 3
Compatible with WP 4.7.3
Compatible with more WP Themes

3.0.5

Fixed css issues= 3.0.4 =
Compatible with WP 4.6

3.0.3

Added the Brazilian Portuguese Language by Anderson Blaine
Added styles for more themes
Compatible with WP 4.3

3.0.2

Compatible with WP 4.1.1
Fix link tag close duplicates
Added some theme compatibilities

3.0.1

Compatible with WP 4.0.1

3.0.0

Made changed according to GPL 2.0

Seems not compatible with WPML

By onico0 on June 24, 2023

I love that plugin, but I'll probably have to switch to another solution since I'd like to go multilingual. Unfortunately, Starbox doesn't seem to be compatible with WPML. That's unfortunate for Starbox lovers.

Pleasant and efficient.

By Maxime_13 on April 8, 2023

Pleasant and efficient. Many thanks to the developers. Works well with php 8.1 and wp 6.2. Better than other free plugins ;)

Very good support

By ivanbel on June 9, 2022

Fisrt time that I see such a simple plugin to use, very convenient and easy for the settings. But the support is fantastic. I wanted to tweak a little bit, and immediately I received all the solutions. Bravo !

Great

By sferwerda on April 14, 2022

Simple but great plugin

Perfect plugin

By madeinperpi on March 24, 2022

Easy to install and to take in hands, step by step

Best plugin to display author of the post

By tilkesh on January 19, 2022

nice plugin it's working awesome with other plugins even without conflict.

Great Plugin!

By Marc-Oliver Pahl (mopxp) on July 20, 2021

I love it. The new in blog text feature for "[starbox]" is wonderful. I give you the strong recommendation to filte out " (quotation marks) as I spent several hours that you are not allowing this embedding id="1,fa,23" as your preg_split results in "1 | fa | 23" and finally only fa is shown as it is the only that mathces with a user id.... Besides that, great!!!

Good plugin, fast support

By ichadwick on April 15, 2021

Nice little upgrade to the way author information is presented. Very neat and clean presentation. The "latest posts" tab is very welcome. Thanks for this work. Very good and fast responses to support issues. Faster than about 90% of the plugins I've installed. That's a nice change. Will look at what the pro version offers and likely upgrade (I only have one author on my blog) because adding more "latest posts" will be a welcome benefit. Works in WP 5.7.1 and had no issues integrating with Verbosa theme.