Cool Author Box: stats, alternatives & is it maintained?

Maintenance check

Is Cool Author Box still maintained?

Yes - by every measure the directory publishes, it is actively maintained.

Updated recently. The last release was 2 months ago.
Tested with current WordPress. Tested up to 7.1.4; most actively maintained plugins are tested on 7.1.

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Cool Author Box alternatives

The most-installed plugins doing the same job, from Author Profiles & Bio Boxes. Cool Author Box itself ranks #44 of 53. How plugins are grouped.

#1

Simple Author Box

simple-author-box 90K installs · 4.3 stars #2

User Profile Picture

metronet-profile-picture 40K installs · 4.6 stars #3

Co-Authors, Multiple Authors and Guest Authors in an Author Box with PublishPress Authors

publishpress-authors 20K installs · 4.9 stars #3

Standing

More installed than 80.8% of the directory

Ahead of 38,580 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.

80.8% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count

38,580 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one

9,153 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.

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