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What’s New in Cite This Article ~ Author Box Citation

In the latest version of Cite This Article ~ Author Box, users can now build richer author and citation displays for posts with one or multiple contributors. Version 2.3.1 adds citation styles with an optional reader-facing switcher, a citation-only mode for sites that already have their own author block, an author profile header for author archive pages, and full block-editor controls for all of it.

Earlier releases introduced native multiple-author support, automatic Co-Authors Plus integration, flexible Combined and Individual author layouts, and more control over author images, biographies, and presentation.

Premium expands the plugin beyond the author box with custom post type support, per-content-type presentation profiles, advanced placement and targeting rules, and the ability to replace the CiteKit mark with your own logo.

Browse the release history below to see everything added, improved, and changed.

2.3.1

  • New: Citation styles — house, APA, MLA, Chicago, and Harvard. Choose which styles a citation offers site-wide, per box, or per block. Author resolution is unchanged: every style formats the same resolved authors.
  • New: Optional reader-facing style switcher. Offer two or more styles and readers can swap between them in the panel, with the citation text and the copy button updating together.
  • New: Citation-only mode —
    , a matching Cite This Article block, and the citekit_abc_citation() template tag output the citation without the author box, for sites that already have their own author block. Author resolution is identical to the full box, including multiple and guest authors.
  • New: Four presentation treatments for the citation panel — rule, boxed, inline, and open — on both the author box and the citation-only output.
  • New: Cite a work other than the current post. The citation accepts author, author_type, title, url, published, and site overrides; partial overrides keep the resolved post values for everything else. author_type="organization" keeps a corporate name intact instead of inverting or initialising it.
  • New: Author profile on author archive pages. One setting turns the “Author: Name” heading into the author’s name with their photo, bio, website, and post count beneath it. Works with block and classic themes, and with guest authors. Your theme keeps its post list, pagination, and layout.
  • New: Author Archive Header block and the citekit_abc_author_archive_header() template tag, for placing that profile yourself. Themes can take over placement entirely with add_theme_support( 'citekit-author-archive' ). A page never shows more than one profile header.
  • New: Author schema. A single setting outputs schema.org Article and author structured data for your chosen content types.
  • New: Block-editor controls for everything above. Both blocks gained Citation style and What to cite panels, and the author box block gained the presentation treatments. Leaving every style unchecked inherits the site setting; checking any style makes the block own its own.
  • Fixed: A bare year in a published date (for example 2019) was read as a time rather than a year.
  • Fixed: Undated sources left a dangling comma in MLA and Chicago citations.
  • Fixed: A stale editor script version meant the block editor could keep serving a cached copy of the previous script.
  • Improved: A site name used as the citation author is now treated as an organisation, so it is never inverted or reduced to initials.

2.2.0

  • New: Configurable author box heading. Set it site-wide, or per box with the title attribute. Left empty, the heading stays automatic and follows the singular or plural author count.
  • New: Per-box export control. The export attribute chooses which reference-manager downloads a box offers — for example export="bib,ris" — or export="none" to hide them on that box.
  • Fixed: Export links were rendered without their styles in the free edition after exports moved out of premium.

2.0.0

  • New: Multiple-author presentation with support for WordPress and popular authorship plugins. Whatever system manages your authors, Cite This Article turns that authorship into consistent attribution, citation data, and reader-facing presentation.
  • New: Co-Authors Plus integration, including registered and guest authors, with guest-author avatars and bios.
  • New: PublishPress Authors integration, including multiple and guest authors.
  • New: Molongui Authorship integration for co-authors and guest authors.
  • New: Manual multi-author entry as a fallback or override for any author source.
  • New: Combined and Individual author-box presentation modes — one card per resolved author with a shared citation panel.
  • New: Image controls (single/group, individual, or none), avatar shape, and avatar size.
  • New: Settings page with an Automatic author source, detected author integrations, and a preferred-source override — only installed integrations are selectable. Appears under the CiteKit menu when available, otherwise under Tools.
  • New: Automatic author lookup in the block editor and shortcode attributes — authors, author_layout, image_mode, and author_images.
  • New: Per-author manual description overrides for resolved and manual authors. A blank override preserves the author’s profile description.
  • New: Premium — reference-manager exports (BibTeX, RIS, and CSL-JSON) in the citation panel.
  • New: Premium — citation-aware page metadata (Google/Highwire citation_* tags) for reference managers and citation tools.
  • New: Premium — advanced placement and targeting by content position, CSS selector, or hook, with post-type, author, post, and taxonomy rules.
  • New: Premium — per-content-type presentation profiles.

1.1.0

  • New: Editorial-style monochrome design with hairline frame, serif typography, and considered spacing.
  • New: Sidebar controls for layout, image shape, and image size.
  • New: Shortcode attributes for layout, avatar shape, and avatar size.
  • New: Enclosing shortcode form for rich descriptions with paragraphs and HTML.
  • New: image_id shortcode attribute for direct media-library references.
  • New: post_id shortcode attribute for rendering against a specific post.
  • Fixed: i18n global name mismatch between PHP localization and the front-end script.
  • Fixed: Invalid image URLs now fall back cleanly instead of rendering broken <img> tags.
  • Improved: Refreshed author box design and editor controls.

1.0.0

  • Initial release.