coauthors
WordPress plugin · detected on 297 sites in our index (5.48% of WordPress sites scanned)
Where coauthors sits in the WordPress plugin ecosystem
coauthors is the #51 most-detected WordPress plugin in our scan index of 5,424 sites, appearing on roughly 5.48% of WordPress sites we've fingerprinted. Most sites running coauthors are hosted on WordPress.com (43% of identified hosts). The most common companion plugin is Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection, present on 67% of coauthors sites. The most frequent theme is Newspack Scott.
Every data point here comes from actual scans of public WordPress sites, not vendor case studies or curated showcases. We don't accept submissions; everything you see is detected automatically when a site is scanned through the tool.
Plugins commonly used with coauthors
From co-occurrence analysis across sites running coauthors in our index.
- Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection67% of coauthors sites · 199 sites
- Yoast SEO: Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI64% of coauthors sites · 191 sites
- Jetpack: WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth60% of coauthors sites · 178 sites
- wpcom57% of coauthors sites · 168 sites
- Jetpack Boost: Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS57% of coauthors sites · 168 sites
- my-jetpack52% of coauthors sites · 155 sites
- Redirection43% of coauthors sites · 128 sites
- elasticpress42% of coauthors sites · 124 sites
Themes commonly running coauthors
Top themes on sites using this plugin.
- Newspack Scott7% of coauthors sites · 20 sites
- CMS4% of coauthors sites · 13 sites
- vip3% of coauthors sites · 9 sites
- Assets3% of coauthors sites · 8 sites
- Newspack Katharine3% of coauthors sites · 8 sites
- Newspack Sacha2% of coauthors sites · 5 sites
Hosting providers running coauthors
Limited to sites where we identified the hosting provider.
- WordPress.com43% · 15 sites
- Pantheon29% · 10 sites
- Kinsta17% · 6 sites
- Pressable9% · 3 sites
- DreamHost3% · 1 site
Sites using coauthors
Most-recently-scanned sites detected with this plugin.
- dissentmagazine.orgdissent-rumors-mobile · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- wmn.deNewspack Katharine · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- denikn.czDN 2 CZ · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- ctmirror.orgNewspack Scott · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- broadpeak.ioBeFlex Child · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- gfmag.comGlobal Finance Magazine · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- zerotothree.orgZero To Three Org Theme · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- greenpeace.org.ukGreenpeace · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- sbsun.comCMS · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- quifinanza.itQuiFinanza (SiViaggia child) · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- folhavitoria.com.brSeox Theme Publishers · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- sacurrent.comNewspack Sacha · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
How we detect coauthors
Five-vector detection: /wp-content/plugins/coauthors/ asset paths, /wp-json/ REST API namespaces, HTML signature patterns, sitemap XML comments, and asset-probe HEAD requests against the top-100 popular plugins on wordpress.org. Each detected plugin carries provenance pills showing which sources corroborated it; cross-vector matches indicate high-confidence detections. More on how detection works.
Data comes from real-time scans of public WordPress sites, not vendor case studies or curated showcases. Every claim on this page traces back to a specific detection in our scan corpus, observable via our methodology. Affiliate links are disclosed per the affiliate disclosure.