Dotes Author Booster helps multi-author sites present who wrote each piece of content.

Author signature (author box)

Card, line and minimal layouts.
Shown before or after the content, both, or placed manually with the [dotes_author_signature] shortcode.
Per-post override of the layout and of the signed author.
Professional profile fields on the user screen: job title, company, specialty, location, credentials, contact details, extended bio and more than 30 social and professional networks.

Author pages

Custom author archive template with breadcrumbs and the author’s posts (classic themes; block themes keep their own author template).

Structured data

Person and Article JSON-LD for authors and posts.
Can be switched off in the settings, and is off by default when Yoast SEO or Rank Math is active, to avoid duplicated schema.

For developers

The plugin exposes filters and actions prefixed with dotes_ab_ (signature layouts, templates, profile fields, schema, admin tabs and settings fields, author page sections) so it can be extended without editing its files.

Third-party libraries

Font Awesome Free 6.7.2 is bundled in assets/vendor/fontawesome (icons CC BY 4.0, fonts SIL OFL 1.1, code MIT). It is served from your own site.

External services

This plugin can load fonts from Google Fonts, a service by Google LLC. Nothing is requested from Google by default.

What it is used for: showing the signatures and author pages with a Google font.
When: only if you choose a Google font in the plugin settings (Settings > Visual customization). With the default “Inherit from theme” (or “System”) font, no request is made.
What is sent: when a visitor opens a page that shows a signature or an author page, the visitor’s browser requests the stylesheet and font files from fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com. As with any web request, this shares the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent with Google, plus the name and weights of the chosen font.
Service provider: Google Fonts, Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

The plugin makes no other request to external services and sends no data to the plugin authors.