coauthors
WordPress plugin · detected on 297 sites in our index (5.57% of WordPress sites scanned)
Where coauthors sits in the WordPress plugin ecosystem
coauthors is the #49 most-detected WordPress plugin in our scan index of 5,328 sites — appearing on roughly 5.57% 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.