Author Bio Box

Description

Display a box with the author’s biography and also social icons in bottom of the post.

Contribute

You can contribute to the source code in our GitHub page.

Credits

• Initial idea by Gustavo Freitas.

License

Author Bio Box 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.

Author Bio Box 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 Author Bio Box. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Screenshots

Installation

• Upload plugin files to your plugins folder, or install using WordPress built-in Add New Plugin installer;
• Activate the plugin;
• Navigate to Settings -> Author Bio Box and fill the options;
• Fill the Biographical Info and Contact Info in Users -> Your Profile.

Add the box directly

Use this function:

<?php 
    if ( function_exists( 'get_author_bio_box' ) ) {
        echo get_author_bio_box();
    }
?>

FAQ

What is the plugin license?

• This plugin is released under a GPL license.

Reviews

Not working any more. No support as well. Don’t install

uckunb March 28, 2022

Not working any more. No support as well. Don’t install

Destroyed my redirects

sirdexter September 8, 2020 2 replies

I had a problem with redirecting the main page and the message appeared. “There has been a critical error on your website”. I have a few plugins installed, but this one was causing the problem. After removing it everything works just fine.

Simple and easy to use

milan.latinovic February 10, 2020

This is one great plugin. Simple and easy to use! Thanks! ??

simple and works

September 23, 2019

It works very well, An extremely good plug-in. Thank you

Very Nice Plugin

amitgupta869 February 6, 2019

Very simple to use this plugin thanks for this plugin bro. Keep it up .

Very useful plugin

Aleksandr April 18, 2017

Great plugin, thanks!

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

3.4.1 – 2021/11/04

• Prevent duplicated element.

3.4.0 – 2021/10/15

• Refactored plugin files.

3.3.3 – 2021/10/13

• Escape translable string in admin.

3.3.2 – 2021/10/13

• Escape and sanitize all options. Security fix.

3.3.1 – 2017/11/01

• Added rel nofollow to social media links.

3.3.0 – 2014/02/26

• Added Instagram and Pinterest icons (Thanks Jeremy Caris).

3.2.0 – 2014/02/26

• Added the authorbiobox_display filter.

3.2.0 – 2014/02/26

• Added Flickr, Tumblr, Vimeo and YouTube icons (thanks @rafaelfunchal).
• Created the authorbiobox_social_data filter for custom icons ordering.

3.1.1 – 2014/01/08

• Fixed the Facebook and Twitter icons.

3.1.0 – 2014/01/04

• Added website icon.

3.0.0 – 2013/12/13

• Improved all code.
• Add support to WordPress 3.8.

2.0.0 – 2013/06/21

• Source code reformulation.
• Improved performance with fewer options in the database.
• Added Brazilian Portuguese and English languages.
• Added Text Color option.
• Added Title Color option.

1.7.1

• Fixed the jQuery in options page.
• Fixed the styles.
• Fixed the wp_nonce in options page.

1.7.0

• Fix a bug with display options.

1.6.0

• Improved the performance.
• Added a function to insert the box in the theme.

1.5.0

• Added strip_tags in options page.

1.4.0

• Added wp_nonce_field and check_admin_referer in options page.

1.3.0

• Added a option to shows the box in homepage.

1.2.0

• Insert target="_blank" in author description.

1.1.0

• Improved the code.
• Removed obsolete WP tags.
• Insert target="_blank" in social icons.

1.0.0

• Initial version.