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Product Author for WooCommerce

Product Author for WooCommerce enables author functionality for Woocommerce Products, Author can be assigned to Woocommerce Product using this plugin

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22.6 Open evidence Open API Open on WordPress.org
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Proof Health

Open evidence

Commercial opportunities need traceable source links before they are treated as build-worthy.

57 / 107 rows with source links

53.3% of this page's analysis has direct source links.

0 build-decision rows missing links

0 rows here require auditable proof before promotion.

50 rows with no attached evidence

0 rows have source counts but still need direct links.

Download Momentum

180 days
116 115 0.9% 709

Source Evidence

Open evidence explorer
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.95
Authors disappear from products “Author menu”

Authors disappear from products “Author menu”: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
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Neither on quick edition or normal post(product) page.
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.95
Fatal Error After Update – Missing clone-resolution-js.php File

Fatal Error After Update – Missing clone-resolution-js.php File: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
Investigate Pain card complete checkout and revenue assurance Evidence linked to opportunity
Fatal Error After Update – Missing clone-resolution-js.php File Hi there, After updating the Product Author for WooCommerce plugin to version 1.0.9 , I received an automatic email from WordPress reporting a fatal error .
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.5
Simple and Easy to Use!

Simple and Easy to Use!: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
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Simple and Easy to Use!
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.44
Great support, great plugin

Great support, great plugin: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
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Great support, great plugin Just what I needed when I didn’t think such a plugin existed.
neutral support · medium severity · relevance 0.42
Missing Class

Missing Class: users show compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
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Missing Class In the latest version, 1.0.5, you require class-fs-garbage-collector.php on line 22 in require.php but the class doesn’t exist.
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.38
Simple and easy to use

Simple and easy to use: users praise easy, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
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Simple and easy to use Plugin is very simple and easy to use.
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.38
Very good

Very good: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
Investigate Pain card complete checkout and revenue assurance Evidence linked to opportunity
Very good I like it. Now I can sort products written by authors! Thanks! I like it. Now I can sort products written by authors! Thanks! @chekki , Thank you for your valuable feedback. It means a lot. @chekki , Thank you for your valuable feedback. It means a lot.
mixed support · low severity · relevance 0.68
Link to Author WP profile page (author archive page) instead of Author Website

Link to Author WP profile page (author archive page) instead of Author Website: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
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This way it would be possible to see other posts or products from same author.
mixed support · low severity · relevance 0.63
Authors does not appear in Products

Authors does not appear in Products: users show compatibility, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
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Authors does not appear in Products Hello I have installed the plugin without problem.
mixed support · low severity · relevance 0.63
Bulk update?

Bulk update?: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
Investigate Pain card complete checkout and revenue assurance Evidence linked to opportunity
Hi @ptstockley , while the bulk update author feature is not currently available in the plugin, I have taken note of your request and will certainly consider it for future updates.

Competitor Context

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Hide/Remove Metadata rising challenger · intel 100.0 · weakness 54.6
rising challenger
below-average rating 12 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: service businesses and booking-site builders · Wedge: test date availability, booking notifications, payment handoffs, and calendar sync
source 1 source 2
Author Avatars List/Block rising challenger · intel 100.0 · weakness 50.4
rising challenger
9 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
Author Image rising with strain · intel 100.0 · weakness 66.6
rising with strain
stale update history 8 collected complaint signal(s) support compatibility 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
Change Author rising with strain · intel 97.1 · weakness 65.4
rising with strain
stale update history 10 collected complaint signal(s) support compatibility 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: membership site owners, agencies, and operations teams · Wedge: test user roles, protected content, SSO/login handoffs, and private-data exposure
source 1 source 2
WP Author, Date and Meta Remover weak incumbent · intel 95.9 · weakness 75.9
weak incumbent
stale update history below-average rating migration missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: service businesses and booking-site builders · Wedge: test date availability, booking notifications, payment handoffs, and calendar sync
source 1 source 2
WP Author Slug rising challenger · intel 94.9 · weakness 35.9
rising challenger
5 collected complaint signal(s) setup missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test security lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts
source 1 source 2
Authors Widget rising with strain · intel 92.0 · weakness 66.2
rising with strain
stale update history 18 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature support 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check authors publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
Edit Author Slug weak incumbent · intel 91.9 · weakness 70.9
weak incumbent
stale update history 23 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature support 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check author base publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2

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No repeated plugin-level themes have been generated yet.

Collected Signals

15 shown from 15 collected
praise Great support, great plugin (5 stars) review · 2025-10-15T09:53:02+00:00 · medium severity · author

Great support, great plugin: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Great support, great plugin Just what I needed when I didn’t think such a plugin existed.
support quality content publishing operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
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mixed Fatal Error After Update – Missing clone-resolution-js.php File support · 2025-07-07T08:33:18+00:00 · high severity · author

Fatal Error After Update – Missing clone-resolution-js.php File: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Fatal Error After Update – Missing clone-resolution-js.php File Hi there, After updating the Product Author for WooCommerce plugin to version 1.0.9 , I received an automatic email from WordPress reporting a fatal error .
bugs compatibility missing feature support content publishing operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
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mixed Link to Author WP profile page (author archive page) instead of Author Website support · 2024-05-07T13:16:29+00:00 · low severity · author

Link to Author WP profile page (author archive page) instead of Author Website: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: This way it would be possible to see other posts or products from same author.
compatibility missing feature support value content publishing operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
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neutral Label AUTHOR support · 2023-12-01T11:30:34+00:00 · low severity · author

Label AUTHOR: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Label AUTHOR I need to change label Author in singl products from “Author :” to “Owner :”, Please could you help?
support content publishing operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
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neutral Missing Class support · 2023-11-26T19:56:52+00:00 · medium severity · author

Missing Class: users show compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Missing Class In the latest version, 1.0.5, you require class-fs-garbage-collector.php on line 22 in require.php but the class doesn’t exist.
compatibility missing feature content publishing operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
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praise Simple and Easy to Use! (5 stars) review · 2023-10-18T15:37:22+00:00 · medium severity · author

Simple and Easy to Use!: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Simple and Easy to Use!
missing feature support easy reliable content publishing operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
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question Author only in the backend? support · 2023-07-17T11:33:21+00:00 · low severity · author

Author only in the backend?: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Hello, it is possible to make author name only available for the backend?
missing feature content publishing operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
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mixed Bulk update? support · 2023-06-30T07:15:14+00:00 · low severity · author

Bulk update?: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Hi @ptstockley , while the bulk update author feature is not currently available in the plugin, I have taken note of your request and will certainly consider it for future updates.
compatibility missing feature support content publishing operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
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mixed Co Authors support · 2022-11-24T10:19:17+00:00 · low severity · author

Co Authors: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Co Authors Does this support multiple authors?
missing feature support content publishing operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
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neutral Only admin user role available from the dropdown menu support · 2022-02-17T06:45:06+00:00 · low severity · author

Only admin user role available from the dropdown menu: users show compatibility, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Only admin user role available from the dropdown menu Hello, After upgrade to WordPress Version: 5.9, now all of a sudden I can only choose admins from the user dropdown list.
compatibility pricing woocommerce content publishing operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
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mixed Authors disappear from products “Author menu” support · 2022-01-26T10:45:47+00:00 · high severity · author

Authors disappear from products “Author menu”: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Neither on quick edition or normal post(product) page.
security bugs compatibility pricing content publishing operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
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mixed Authors does not appear in Products support · 2021-10-19T19:38:18+00:00 · low severity · author

Authors does not appear in Products: users show compatibility, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Authors does not appear in Products Hello I have installed the plugin without problem.
compatibility support setup reliable content publishing operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
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question show author on product page support · 2020-12-09T09:26:34+00:00 · low severity · author

show author on product page: users show setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: show author on product page Hello I install this plugin in my site and assign autor to product.
setup content publishing operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
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praise Very good (5 stars) review · 2019-08-30T11:37:17+00:00 · medium severity · author

Very good: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Very good I like it. Now I can sort products written by authors! Thanks! I like it. Now I can sort products written by authors! Thanks! @chekki , Thank you for your valuable feedback. It means a lot. @chekki , Thank you for your valuable feedback. It means a lot.
content publishing operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
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praise Simple and easy to use (5 stars) review · 2019-04-24T03:02:48+00:00 · medium severity · author

Simple and easy to use: users praise easy, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Simple and easy to use Plugin is very simple and easy to use.
easy content publishing operations Investigate Pain card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
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