Adds a sexy, customizable author bio section below your posts.
| Author: | penguininitiatives (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 3.8 |
| WordPress version tested: | 4.7.23 |
| Plugin version: | 1.5.5 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 23-12-2013 |
| Last updated: | 24-03-2018
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Rating, %: | 96 |
| Rated by: | 22 |
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| Total downloads: | 72 373 |
| Active installs: | 2 000+ |
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WP Author Bio is a WordPress author bio plugin that supports single and multiple authors with Co-Authors Plus. It offers tons of options to customize the box after WordPress posts about the author(s).
The author bio box is responsive and includes five sexy social icon sets to choose from, with support for all the following social networks: Behance, Blogger, Delicious, DeviantArt, Dribbble, Facebook, Flickr, GitHub, Google+, Instagram, LinkedIn, MySpace, Pinterest, RSS, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, Twitter, Vimeo, WordPress, Yahoo! & YouTube.
Credits
- Plugin built and maintained by Andy Forsberg.
- The included Geekly circular social icons are complements of @Abdo_Ba.
- This is a derivative work of the Author Bio Box WordPress Plugin, which was authored by Claudio Sanches.
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WP Author Bio Box Shortcode
[sexy_author_bio]
PHP Functions & Variables
The following should always work:
<?php
if ( function_exists( 'get_Sexy_Author_Bio' ) ) {
echo get_Sexy_Author_Bio();
}
?>
The following works only when co-authors plus is not in use:
<?php
//Author Name:
echo get_the_author();
//Job Title:
echo get_the_author_meta('job-title');
//Company Name:
echo get_the_author_meta('company');
//Company Website URL:
echo get_the_author_meta('company-website-url');
//Social Network URLs:
echo get_the_author_meta( 'sabbehance' );
echo get_the_author_meta( 'sabblogger' );
echo get_the_author_meta( 'sabdelicious' );
echo get_the_author_meta( 'sabdeviantart' );
echo get_the_author_meta( 'sabdribbble' );
echo get_the_author_meta( 'sabemail' );
echo get_the_author_meta( 'sabfacebook' );
echo get_the_author_meta( 'sabflickr' );
echo get_the_author_meta( 'sabgithub' );
echo get_the_author_meta( 'sabgoogle' );
echo get_the_author_meta( 'sabinstagram' );
echo get_the_author_meta( 'sablinkedin' );
echo get_the_author_meta( 'sabmyspace' );
echo get_the_author_meta( 'sabpinterest' );
echo get_the_author_meta( 'sabrss' );
echo get_the_author_meta( 'sabstumbleupon' );
echo get_the_author_meta( 'sabtumblr' );
echo get_the_author_meta( 'sabtwitter' );
echo get_the_author_meta( 'sabvimeo' );
echo get_the_author_meta( 'sabwordpress' );
echo get_the_author_meta( 'sabyahoo' );
echo get_the_author_meta( 'sabyoutube' );
?>
License
WP Author Bio is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
WP Author Bio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with WP Author Bio. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.