Deactivate About the Author Box

  • I was successfully using the Fancier Author Box plugin when suddenly, WordPress started putting in its own About the Author box and I had two about boxes on each post.

    I don’t know why it suddenly started showing up (maybe b/c of a Twenty Twelve update?) but I don’t want it. It doesn’t allow social media links and doesn’t allow select deactivation like Fancier Author box does.

    How can I deactivate the WordPress About the Author box? See example of it here: https://honestmom.com/2013/08/22/is-your-child-a-heather/

    Thanks!

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  • You can put this into Edit CSS ( Jetpack’s )

    .single-post .author-info { display: none; }

    or visit your profile page and remove out the author description, because when this description is empty theme won’t be showing the author info box.

    Thread Starter honestmom

    (@honestmom)

    Thanks so much @paulwpxp – that worked perfectly.

    I didn’t want to remove my description from my profile because sometimes I do use it (e.x., when I have an influx of new traffic to a post).

    hi there.
    i’m actually looking to ADD the about the author box and can’t see how – are we referring to the same box on the top right of the front page but below the menu? i saw it on the preview but it’s not appearing as default after activating. can you point me in the right direction? TIA!

    Thread Starter honestmom

    (@honestmom)

    My about the author box appeared after the post, so I’m not sure we’re talking about the same thing. For me it was a default feature in the Twenty Twelve theme. I wanted to suppress it so I could use the Fancier Author Box plugin, which has the author’s social media links.

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