For some sites, drawing attention to the author or authors on your site may be a key piece of your overall strategy. WordPress author ship widgets are a good way of stamping a label and giving credit to people who spend time crafting useful and entertaining things. In this post, we would like to share with you 12 useful WordPress authorship free widgets that will help those of you working with many authors.

Most of them are relevant to almost any type of WordPress website. I hope this list helps you create a strong author platform that brings you thousands of readers. That’s not too much to hope for, right? You may want to take a look at the following related articles: Best iOS Photography Apps, Feedback Form Plugins for WordPress, Useful CSS Animations and Effects and Amazing CSS Menu Examples.

WordLift

WordLift is a WordPress Plug-in developed by InSideOut10 to help you organise your post and pages using “concepts” like you do in the real world. WordLift comes to the rescue with new In-Depth features that automatically add the correct semantic tagging for you, just download, install and activate WordLift.

GooglePlus Multi-Authorship

GooglePlus Multi-Authorship provides a straightforward solution to properly add Google+ Authorship markup to the head of each post and page on a multi-authored site.

Display Authors Widget

This plugin register a widget to display authors by role in a sidebar. You can choose whether to display author post count, biography or gravatar.

WordiZ

You will be able to collect and show the number of mentions from Twitter, Facebook and Google+ for all your articles and display the top 5. You can also use the widget for multi-authors blogs.

WP Author Box Lite

Give identity to your blog posts, pages and custom post types! Author Box Lite creates responsive profile and latest posts box to increase reader engagement. This also automatically add google+ profile authorship.

WP Content Copyright and Plagiarism Protection

Digital Media Rights protects the copyright of all your Internet publications legally certifying the authorship of your posts. Digital Media Rights is an independent witness that digitally certifying the exact date of publication of any digital content.

WordPress Click & Go SEO

The idea behind WordPress Click & Go SEO is to provide you with the essential tools you need to optimise your site – nothing more, nothing less.

Fancier Author Box by ThematoSoup

Make your every post stand out and attract your readers’ eyes. Connect with your audience on all levels and make sure people always read your author’s bio and engage you on social networks.

Google Plus Authorship

Google Plus Profile Picture appear in Google Search. Integrate Google Plus Profile with WordPress. Make your website come up in Google.

Tessa Authorship

“Tessa Authorship” allows to set and handle authorship and relations with every WordPress content that exists on your site. This allows you to present works by other people, think of an online gallery, for instance.

Google Author Link

This plugin works for single user WordPress sites and multi-author sites. Each user has a new field to store their Google Profile URL, then on each page and post the plugin will create the required link in the HTML Head.

webZunder Open Graph Plugin

By using the webZunder Open Graph Plugin, you can easily improve the presentation of your content in social networks like Google and Facebook and in search engine results.