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WP Google Authorship

WP Google Authorship

SEO Structured Data & Schema Markup

WP Google Authorship is a WordPress plugin for Structured Data & Schema Markup. It ranks #21 of 30 in that group by active installs and was last updated 12 months ago.

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Slug google-plus-author

200 Active installs As the directory reports it, rounded to a band
5.0 Rating out of 5 From 1 ratings
4 Releases Since 13 February 2012
Nov 2025 Last release 12 months ago

Maintenance check

Is WP Google Authorship still maintained?

Probably not - several signs point to a plugin that is no longer being looked after. Compare the alternatives below.

  • No release for a while. The last one was 12 months ago.
  • Not tested with recent WordPress. Tested only up to 6.8.12; current plugins are tested on 7.1.

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Standing

More installed than 72.8% of the directory

Ahead of 34,752 of the 47,734 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.

72.8% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count
34,752 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one
12,981 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band
How to read that

The directory rounds install counts hard and publishes them as bands, so two plugins showing the same number are not necessarily level. The percentile is computed over the plugins that report a count at all, which excludes the quarter of the directory sitting on the reporting floor.

Details

The record

Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.

Current version
2.1
Requires WordPress
3.0
Tested up to
6.8.12
Added to the directory
13 February 2012
Last updated
8 November 2025
Contributors
1
Author
Mervin Praison

Its own tags

  • author
  • authorship
  • google
  • google plus
  • seo

Free text typed by the plugin author. The statistics page explains why they are not a taxonomy.

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