
Starbox is the Author Box for Humans. Professional Themes to choose from, HTML5, Social Media Profiles, Google Authorship
Author: | Squirrly UK (profile at wordpress.org) |
WordPress version required: | 4.0 |
WordPress version tested: | 5.6 |
Plugin version: | 3.4.2 |
Added to WordPress repository: | 30-09-2013 |
Last updated: | 24-11-2020 |
Rating, %: | 90 |
Rated by: | 192 |
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Total downloads: | 355 326 |
Active installs: | 20 000+ |

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Humans look at beauty more than anything else (as you most probably already know, men and women alike). That’s why you’ll get an Author Box that’s gorgeous to look at and it makes your readers click all the way through to see more about the Authors.
Now, if you have just yourself as an Author on your site, or a super-star team of Authors, you’ll love Starbox. You can choose from the professionaly built themes and landscaping. If you are the super-star type, or want to boost social proof, place your Author Box on top of the page, so that your Human readers will know that they’re reading stuff that a real awesome person has written.
You want the classy, bottom-of-the-page Author Box? You can choose that one as well.
And if your star Authors want different things, satisfy their needs by allowing them to place their Author Box at the top or bottom, with the default theme, or a better looking one. You can make each of them shine in their own way.
The Social Profiles of your writers will be obvious and clickable, getting you Humans that will engage with content on your blog and also on your social media streams.
Because your authors are stars or will be very soon, Google Authorship and Facebook Authorship are here for them with Starbox, and it’s just type->click->boom! to set up. Amazingly easy.
Are you afraid of having to spend too much time setting Starbox up? Don’t worry. You’re covered by our “For Humans” guarantee. With NO coding or complicated menus whatsoever, you’ll set your Author Box in a matter of minutes. And since we took a lot of care regarding all the coding, it will work well and you won’t have to worry about that.
You’ll build up some good social proof, you’ll give your Human readers a sense of quality and they’ll be happy to return for more (which will help you with the search engines who track your site).
If you’re doing the tech stuff on your site or want to know what Starbox’s inner workings are all about, here’s a list:
- HTML 5
- Google Microformats (vCard), to display Rich Snippets in google search results
- Easy to customize for each Author
- You’ll get Google Authorship on your hands
Screenshots

Author Box with Business Theme

Author Bio Box with Business Theme

Author Box Settings

Author Box Settings for each Author

Author Box Social Settings

Author Box with Drop-Down Theme

Author Box with Drop-Down Theme

Author Box with Drop-Down Theme

Google Rich Snippets with the author's image

Google Rich Snippets with the author's image

Author Box with TopStar Theme

Author Box with TopStar Theme

Author Box with Drop-Down Theme

Author Box with Drop-Down Theme

Author Box with Fancy Theme

Author Box with Drop-Down Theme
FAQ
Why is there no meta for google and facebook authorship?
You have to fill the google and facebook social accounts in your profile and it will show up.
How Do I Get Support For This Plugin?
We’re following the threads and based on them we always try to build up new and better implementations for the Author Box for Humans. If you want Premium Support, that also comes with High Priority, then go to:
http://starbox.squirrly.co/product/starbox-the-author-box-for-humans/
How Do I Make Sure I Get Priority Support From Buying The Recommended Version?
It will help you have a premium email from us, on which you can get super-fast support.
http://starbox.squirrly.co/product/starbox-the-author-box-for-humans/
After you buy it, it will show you the email on which you can write to us for Premium and Fast Support
How can I call (display) the author box in a post or widget?
Just add [starbox] or [starbox id=”login_name”] in your post or widget..
You can also add different description for the author box, by adding [starbox id=”login_name” desc=”custom description” ]
And more than that, you can add a default theme for author box [starbox id=”login_name” desc=”custom description” theme=”business”]
How can i add multiple author boxes to a post?
You can use startbox shortcode at the bottom of the content like this:
[starbox id=”john,david”] where john and david are the username of the authors
or
[starbox id=”1,2,3..n”] where 1,2,3 .. n are the ID of the authors
Is your team dedicated to this plugin?
You can count on it 🙂 Our team of 8 people over at Squirrly (registered in the UK) are focused on making both our wordpress seo plugin and our author box plugin the best there are. So far we succeeded in making them one of the most popular, because we listen to your feedback and you’re the reason for their success.
ChangeLog
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
3.0.0
- Made changed according to GPL 2.0
2.2.0
- Compatible with WP 4.0
- Fixed various bugs
2.1.4
2.1.3
- Fixed css and js loading issues for many different themes
- Fixed repeated header section
2.1.2
2.1.1
- Removed Author Box from products that you may have in Woocommerce when only posts are set to have the author box displayed (you can do this in settings)
2.1.0
2.0.5
2.0.4
- Fixed hook bugs for preview and frontend
- Update css on the author box plugin for some themes
- Fixed small bugs for Font size option
- Works with W3 Total Cache and Super Cache
2.0.3
- Added Font Size option for the name and description
2.0.2
- fixed show latest posts for shortcodes
- added show latest posts from specific category in shortcode [starbox lpc=”category id”] or [starbox lpc=”category name”]
2.0.1
- Fixed css for more themes
- Fixed hide from all posts in WP 3.8.1 issue
- Added French Translation by D SIGNED
2.0.0
- Fixed loading issues
- Compatible with WordPress 3.8
- Fixed css for different themes and for WordPress 3.8