Author Bio Box Plugin
Display a box with the author's biography in your WordPress
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
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 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
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(); } ?>
Screenshots
Settings page.
New fields in "Your Profile" page.
Plugin in action.
FAQ
What is the plugin license? - This plugin is released under a GPL license.
Changelog
3.4.1 – 2021/11/04
- Prevent duplicated element.
3.4.0 – 2021/10/15
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
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