I’m trying to only have excerpts show up with a ‘read more’ option but whenever I use [wp_biographia user=”*” type=”excerpt”] I only get the bio that is entered in the excerpt section in the user page (no option to display the full thing). Is this possible?
Just in case there’s some confusion around terminology, the biographical excerpt, which WP Biographia adds to the user’s profile under Biography Options / Biographical Excerpt, has no connection at all to a post excerpt (actually this terminology has the possibility to be downright confusion so I think I’ll change this in the next release of the plugin).
What you’ve described above seems to me to be precisely what the plugin should be doing and what’s documented for the behaviour of the shortcode’s type attribute. Using the shortcode …
[wp_biographia user="*" type="excerpt"]
… will output the Biography Box for all users on your site; the user’s excerpt biography will be used, unless a user doesn’t have an excerpt biography, in which case the full biography will be used , or if the user has no biography information at all, no biography text will be displayed.
I’ve also noticed the plugin author mention not to fill out the except portion on the user page, wondering if there’s another way to work around this
I did? I don’t recall saying this, though I might have albeit in a different context; have you a link to where I’ve recommended this?
-Gary
