Multiple authors

  • I am developing a new wordpress site that has multiple authors. Eventually within two or three years the site will also include bbpress discussion forums.

    This is a question about long term development.

    My current challenge is that I want to display a nice bio box for site authors, and I’m trying to decide if I should add a bio box plugin, or if I should just install bbpress now, and use that function for the biobox.

    I want to do what’s the simplest and the best for site seo over the long term. I like to keep the site free of plugins as much as possible to maintain clean code.

    I’d appreciate thoughts or suggestions people might have.

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    Which bio box do you like better? If bbPress, go ahead and install it now. You can suppress any links to forums until you’re ready to use them while using its bio box feature.

    If you like an independent bio plugin better, use it. Continue to use it even with bbPress. I can relate to the desire to limit plugins, but if the plugin provides important useful functionality, it’s worth making an exception to the no plugins rule.

    You could also build your own bio box plugin, which could also contain any other custom code you develop. A single custom code plugin can replace any number of other plugins without incurring much of the overhead that’s often part of many plugins. Of course, some things are not worth custom coding because an existing plugin does something really well.

    You can either create a customed plugin or add functions to your function.php file and also on the frontend, if you want to do social media tags.

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