Title: Authors Posts Widget
Author: Fahad Mahmood
Published: <strong>November 21, 2013</strong>
Last modified: October 25, 2025

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# Authors Posts Widget

 By [Fahad Mahmood](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fahadmahmood/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/authors-posts-widget.1.4.2.zip)

 * [Details](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/authors-posts-widget/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/authors-posts-widget/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/authors-posts-widget/#installation)
 * [Development](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/authors-posts-widget/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/authors-posts-widget/)

## Description

 * Author: [Fahad Mahmood](https://www.androidbubbles.com/contact)
 * Project URI: [http://androidbubble.com/blog/wordpress/widgets/authors-posts-widget](http://androidbubble.com/blog/wordpress/widgets/authors-posts-widget)
 * License: GPL 3. See License below for copyright jots and tittles.

This is a free WordPress widget to display authors posts in your sidebars. You can
display collapsable authors posts in sidebars. You can set number of posts to show/
hide titles and excerpts. Preview of authors profile picture in post is also available.

Detailed description.

Important!

Visit my blog and suggest good features which you wana see in this plugin.

### License

This WordPress Widget is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or any later version. This free software
is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without
even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a 
copy of the GNU General Public License along with this software. If not, see http://
www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * “Authors Posts Widget” in appearance > widgets
 * [[
 * Number of posts to show as per author

## Installation

To use Authors Posts Widget, you will need:
 * an installed and configured copy 
of [WordPress][]

    ```
    (version 3.0 or later).
    ```

* FTP, SFTP or shell access to your web host

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Perfect](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perfect-6707/)󠁿

 [anduril3019](https://profiles.wordpress.org/anduril3019/) December 17, 2019

Exactly what I was looking for! Simple, clean, easy, and complete.

 [ Read all 3 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/authors-posts-widget/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Authors Posts Widget” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Fahad Mahmood ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fahadmahmood/)
 *   [ Invoicepress ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/invoicepress/)

[Translate “Authors Posts Widget” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/authors-posts-widget)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/authors-posts-widget/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/authors-posts-widget/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/authors-posts-widget/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/authors-posts-widget/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.4.2

 * Reorganized and formatted CSS with clearer sectioning and consistent indentation.[
   25/10/2025]

#### 1.4.0

 * Version updated for WordPress. [05/06/2024]

#### 1.3.9

 * Version updated for WordPress. [02/05/2023]

#### 1.3.8

 * Assets updated.

#### 1.3.7

 * Tags updated. [Thanks to Abu Usman]

#### 1.3.6

 * UI updated.

#### 1.3.5

 * Banner, icon and screenshots updated. [Thanks to Abu Usman]

#### 1.3.4

 * Bullets updated and heading tag as well. [Thanks to seanbperiod]

#### 1.3.3

#### 1.3.2

 * Three languages added, Spanish, French & German. [Thanks to Abu Usman]

#### 1.3.1

 * Sanitized input and fixed direct file access issues.

#### 1.3.0

 * Notices and warnings handled and excerpt display feature added.

#### 1.2.0

 * Refined file structure.

#### 1.1

 * Number of posts to show is provided.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.4.2**
 *  Last updated **5 months ago**
 *  Active installations **90+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.8.5**
 *  PHP version ** 7.0 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/authors-posts-widget/)
 * Tag
 * [posts-widget](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts-widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/authors-posts-widget/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Fahad Mahmood ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fahadmahmood/)
 *   [ Invoicepress ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/invoicepress/)

## Support

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