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Assign Staff as Author for Total

by WPExplorer · Uncategorized

Assign staff members as the "author" for any page or post to be displayed in the post meta or author bio.

⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
80 Health · B
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 65/100
Support 70/100

80 health vs 59 average across 7,099 Uncategorized plugins

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

84 / 100

Well optimized

Biggest win: Rating quality

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 49/100
Listing tuning 84/100

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-8% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

55

now · peak 130

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Assign Staff as Auth · #24188 Change Author · #5755 Custom Author Byline · #8904 Term Based Dynamic P · #13464

Downloads per 1k installs · 30d

Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base

Estimated active installs

wp.org reports only “30+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
30–40 ≈37

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

At the current install trend, crossing 40+ in roughly 197 days.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations

Details

Version
2.1.2
Last updated
yesterday
Added
2020-03-29 · 6 yrs on WP
Requires WP
6.3
Tested up to
7.0.1
Requires PHP
7.0

Growth timeline

Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow

  1. 2026-06-16 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in band
  2. 2026-06-15 30+ → 20+ down after 1 days in band
  3. 2026-06-14 20+ → 30+ up after 88 days in band
  4. 2026-03-18 10+ → 20+ up after 6 days in band
  5. 2026-03-12 20+ → 10+ down after 217 days in band
  6. 2025-08-07 30+ → 20+ down after 26 days in band
  7. 2025-07-12 20+ → 30+ up after 4 days in band
  8. 2025-07-08 30+ → 20+ down after 320 days in band

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