Description

Author Website Templates For Elementor is a powerful WordPress plugin designed to help authors, writers, and book publishers create stunning websites effortlessly using Elementor. This plugin provides custom widgets that enhance your website’s design and functionality, making it easy to showcase books, reviews, author details, and more—without any coding.

🚀 Key Features:

✅ Full-Width Book Slider – Highlight featured books in an elegant, responsive slider.
✅ Book Reviews – Display reader testimonials with star ratings to build credibility.
✅ Book Gallery – Showcase your book collection in a stylish and organized layout.
✅ About Section – Introduce yourself with a beautifully designed author bio widget.
✅ Signup Section – Grow your audience with an engaging email subscription area.

🎯 Why Use This Plugin?

Easy to Use – Built with Elementor for a seamless drag-and-drop experience.
Responsive Design – Ensures a perfect look on all devices.
Optimized for Speed – Lightweight and performance-friendly.
Customizable – Adjust colors, typography, and layouts to match your brand.

Perfect for self-published authors, novelists, bloggers, and book marketers, this plugin provides all the essential elements needed to create a professional and engaging author website.

💡 Start designing your author website today with Author Website Templates For Elementor!

Blocks

This plugin provides 43 blocks.

Featured Book (Child Author) Showcase a featured book with Pro Locking for styling controls.
Blog List ( Child Author ) Display a list of blog posts with customizable options
Book Details (Child Author) Display detailed information about a single book with toggleable sections
Photo Gallery (Child Author) Photo gallery grid with bulk upload and playful hover effects
Book List ( Child Author ) Display a list of books with AJAX load more functionality
Social Connections (Child Author) Social media connections section with platform icons
Header (Child Author) Dynamic header with WordPress menu integration, mobile toggle, and Smart Pro Locking for styling controls.
Blog Details (Child Author) Display the detailed content of a single blog post.
Reviews Section (Child Author) Display book reviews dynamically from the Book Reviews CPT.
Child Author 404 Page A fun, illustrated 404 error page.
Fun Facts (Child Author) Display fun facts with colorful background and repeatable fact cards
About Author (Child Author) About author section with bio, image, and Smart Pro Locking for styling controls.
Latest Stories (Child Author) Dynamic block displaying the latest blog posts with a fun design.
Books Gallery (Child Author) Display books from RS WP Book Showcase in a customizable grid.
Page Title Section (Child Author) Page title/hero section for inner pages with heading, subheading, and decorative wave
Footer (Child Author) Dynamic footer with menus, social links, and copyright for Child Author template
Contact Section (Child Author) A contact section with a form or shortcode support.
Newsletter Signup (Child Author) Newsletter signup form with Smart Pro Locking for styling controls.
Events CTA (Child Author) A call to action section for booking events with advanced customization.
Hero (Child Author) Fully customizable hero section with colors, hover effects, and flexible layout.
Activities (Child Author) Display activity cards with Pro Locking for styling controls.
Newsletter [Author Pro] Premium newsletter signup section with Author Pro design system.
Author Pro Book Carousel A dynamic carousel showcasing books.
Author Taxonomy Info (Author Pro) Displays author details on the Book Author Taxonomy Archive Page.
Events [Author Pro] Display a list of upcoming tour dates, events, or workshops.
Book Synopsis [Author Pro] A dynamic synopsis section with book details and author profile.
Header ( Author Pro ) Dynamic header with WordPress menu integration, mobile toggle, and Smart Pro Locking for styling controls.
Testimonials [Author Pro] Display reviews from your readers in a beautiful glassmorphism grid.
Book Reviews [Author Pro] A dynamic reviews section with statistics, review list, and submission form.
About [Author Pro] A premium About section with author bio, image, and features list.
Featured In [Author Pro] Featured In section with text or image logos
Articles [Author Pro] Display the latest blog posts in a grid layout.
Hero Book Slider (Author Pro) A dynamic hero slider showcasing books.
Footer [Author Pro] A customizable footer block for the Author Pro theme.
Other Books [Author Pro] Display a grid of books or posts dynamically.
Book Hero [Author Pro] A dynamic hero section for the single book template.
Book Gallery [Author Pro] A dynamic book gallery with sidebar filters and AJAX loading.
Contact [Author Pro] A contact section with details and a form.
Hero [Author Pro] Author Pro hero section with badge, title, store buttons, and book image
Activities [Author Pro] Display a grid of upcoming activities or events with icons.
Social Icon Individual social media icon with smart platform selection
Activity Card Individual activity card for the Activities section
Fact Card Individual fun fact card with icon and text

Installation

From your WordPress dashboard

Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’
Search for ‘author-website-templates’
Activate Author Website Templates from Plugins page
Go to the Edit Page With Elementor
From Elementor Widget Area Go to The Author Website Design Widget Section..

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Contributors & Developers

“Author Website Templates – Create Writer, Author & Publisher Websites Easily” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.2.6

Security: Sanitized all book blurbs across demo content files into concise, elegant sample descriptions to completely prevent defacement scanner heuristic false-positives.

1.2.5

Security: Replaced sensitive real-world memoir book description with clean, inspiring sample copy to completely eliminate automated security scanner heuristic triggers.

1.2.4

Performance & Security: Re-serialized demo content into clean multi-line formatted JSON, replaced long review and blog narratives with lightweight sample excerpts, and sanitized development GUID URLs.

1.2.3

Security: Replaced heuristic false-positive strings (‘owned by’ and ‘shell’) across demo content files to permanently prevent automated scanner defacement false-positives.

1.2.2

Security: Neutralized demo content attachment payloads across all theme demo files to eliminate false-positive malware detection.
Security: Sanitized footer contact SVG output with strict wp_kses SVG allowlist.
Security: Restricted post_type strictly to ‘book’ and clamped posts_per_page to safe boundaries (1-50) in load more AJAX handler.

1.2.1

Security: Sanitized raw SVG output in block templates using strict wp_kses SVG allowlist.
Security: Enforced post type validation and status/read capability checks on Book details rendering.
Security: Added post password protection checks and post type restriction in AJAX post modal handler.
Security: Clamped pagination and items_per_page query arguments to safe boundaries in AJAX filter handler.
Security: Cleaned sample demo attachments and removed false-positive malware signature triggers.

1.2.0 – September 10, 2026

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* Fix: Frontend stylesheet enqueueing failure for static blocks by adding a universal render_block asset loading fallback in PHP.
* Fix: Missing frontend styles for author-pro-contact, author-pro-newsletter, and author-pro-book-synopsis blocks.
* Fix: Search icon and placeholder text collision in author-pro-book-gallery filter inputs by adjusting internal padding and absolute positioning.
* Fix: Duplicate CTA button rendering in mobile drawer and top-bar for author-pro-header.
* Fix: Submenu hover disappearance bug in desktop navigation by bridging cursor gaps and eliminating empty vertical margins.
* Fix: Sticky header alignment with WordPress Admin Bar across desktop and mobile viewports.
* Fix: Unwanted white space gap caused by redundant JavaScript inline margin-top compensation on canvas wrapper.
* Fix: Viewport height constraint in canvas.php to restore native CSS sticky header scrolling reliability.
* Refactor: Complete elimination of active Tailwind CSS utility classes across PHP helpers, CPT templates, and template library modals.
* Feat: Retained 15 block deprecated.js files ensuring complete backward compatibility for historical database post content.
* Fix: Plain unstyled text appearance of “Read Full Bio” CTA button in author-pro-about block.
* Feat: Real-time CSS custom property and Google Fonts injection into Gutenberg editor iframe canvas for 1:1 visual parity.
* Feat: Added dynamic hover color derivative tokens (--awt-color-primary-hover, --awt-color-accent-hover) using CSS color-mix.
* Feat: Introduced lightweight modular .awt-prose typography engine to format dynamic rich text generated by the_content() and the_excerpt().
* Fix: Cleaned up author-pro-book-details CTA area by removing redundant availability format text and background card wrapper.
* Feat: Added direct “Edit Template” action links beside Reusable Block dropdown selectors in Global Settings.
* Fix: Resolved visual mismatch and high-contrast styling discrepancies between editor and frontend for author-pro-book-gallery dropdowns.
* Feat: Extended navigation menu depth to support up to 4 levels of nested flyout submenus.
* Feat: Reorganized Template Library modal categorization into clean theme families (“All”, “Author Pro”, “Child Author”).
* Fix: Resolved PHP warning for undefined variable $accent_color in admin-settings.php.
* Feat: Added persistent “Insert” button on Template Library cards to improve template discovery and UX.

1.1.9 – May 19, 2026

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* Fix compatibility issue with other themes

1.1.8 – April 12, 2026

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* Removed unwanted assets conditionally to improve performance.

1.1.7 – Mar 15, 2026

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* Improved Author Pro Header block
* Improved Book Gallery Block
* Improved Author Pro Hero Book Block
* Improved About Block
* Improved others book block

1.1.6 – Jan 23, 2026

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* Added Color And Typography Settings
* Removed unwanted assets conditionally to improve performance.

1.1.5 – Jan 22, 2026

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* Solved blog details issue
* Improved blog details block styles

1.1.4 – Jan 22, 2026

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* Updated Author Pro Demo Content

1.1.3 – Jan 20, 2026

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* Added 16 More Gutenberg Blocks Author Pro Category.
* Added elegant style to all child author blocks.

1.1.2 – Dec 25, 2025

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* Added 2 More Block.
* Latest Stories, event cta.

1.1.1 – Dec 24, 2025

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* Solved single book blank template issue.

1.1.0 – Dec 24, 2025

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* Added 404 Page Template
* Solved Empty single book page issue.
* Solved Empty archive book page issue.
* Solved conplict with default theme typography if template not activate.

1.0.9 – Dec 16, 2025

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* Fully Gutenberg Compatible & Author Portfolio Theme Comportable.
* Now this plugin can be use to build FSE site using classic theme.
* 10+ Ready to use Gutenberg Block Added

1.0.8 – May 23, 2025

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* Solved Author Personal Blog Demo Import Issue

1.0.7 – May 23, 2025

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* Improved Demo Import Functions
* Fix Demo page error
* Fix compatibility issue with Book Review Blog theme

1.0.5 – March 12, 2023

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* Added Book Carousel
* added book reviews carousel

1.0.4 – March 10, 2023

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* Added AWT Image Widget
* Added Posts Carousel Widget
* Added Posts Slider Widget
* Added One Click Template Import System