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Author Spotlight widget displays the profile of the author(s) with Social links (example: Twitter, Facebook) and his/her profile picture or Gravatar on any post or page that has an Author. The widget automatically detects the current author(s) of the displayed post or page; just drag and drop the widget on your sidebar and you are done.
To display a custom photograph with the Author’s Profile you may install the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-photo/" title="User Photo WordPress plugin" rel="ugc">User Photo</a>. In absence of this plugin the widget will fall-back to displaying the Gravatar associated with the user. If your posts have multiple authors you may use the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/co-authors-plus/" title="Co-Authors Plus WordPress plugin" rel="ugc">Co-Authors Plus</a>, the Author Spotlight will then display all the author profiles one below another for such post/page.
Note that installing the User Photo or Co-Author plugin is purely optional, this widget will work fine without them as well.
If you face any issues with the plugin or have any suggestion/feature requests please do so <a href="https://wordpress.org/tags/author-profile" title="Author Spotlight plugin support forum" rel="ugc">at the support forum</a>.

Author Spotlight (Widget)

A Sidebar widget to display the Author(s) profile on any Page or Post along with Social web links.

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Enhanced Bibliplug creates a central repository for researchers to organize and display their academic work either individually or in a collaborative environment. This plugin is designed to synchronize with Zotero accounts.
Key features include:
<ol>
<li>database schema for storing bibliographical references.</li>
<li>administration pages to manage the references.</li>
<li>short code for easy retrieval of references based on author, year, and publication type.</li>
<li>the ability to connect and synchronize with Zotero accounts.</li>
<li>a custom Author page template to display user’s academic title, affiliation, bio, and CV content such as publications and presentations.</li>
<li>short code for listing all users of the site.</li>
<li>the ability to group and retrieve references based on custom categories and tags.</li>
</ol>
Companion plugin:
<a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/enhanced-publication/" rel="ugc">Enhanced Publication</a>
<h4>Reference short codes</h4>
References can be displayed on any post/page using short code bibliplug.
<pre><code>[bibliplug id=2] displays a single reference.
[bibliplug last_name='Smith'] displays references by author/editor last name.
[bibliplug first_name='John'] displays references by author/editor first name.
[bibliplug type='book'] displays all books.
[bibliplug category='chapter7'] displays all references under category chapter7.
[bibliplug tag='biology'] displays all references with tag biology.
[bibliplug year='2008'] displays all references published in 2008.
[bibliplug format='full'] displays references with abstracts. Default is 'normal'.
[bibliplug keywords='biology, genome'] displays references with any given keywords.
[bibliplug order_by='last_name, year-, title'] displays references first ordered by first author's last name, then by publish
</code></pre>
year in descending order, then by title. You can also sort by first_name (first author’s first name), date (publication date), 
and type (publication type). By default, text fields are sorted alphabatically from A-Z, dates are sorted from oldest to newest, 
and numbers are sorted from small to big. To invert the sorting order of a field, add “-” at the end of the field name to indicate 
that the field should be sorted in descending order.
Note:
You can mix-match any arguments except:
<ul>
<li>If id is used, other arguments are ignored.</li>
<li>If category is used, tag is ignored.</li>
</ul>
Other than types shown in the drop down box when editing a reference, there are two super types you can use.
<ul>
<li>Publication => any type that’s not presentation or conference paper.</li>
<li>Presentation => presentation and conference paper.</li>
</ul>
All references are shown in Chicago Style Author-Date System.
<h4>Author profile short codes</h4>
Author list can be displayed on any post/page using short code bibliplug_authors.
<pre><code>[bibliplug_authors id=2] display a single user by its user id.
[bibliplug_authors format='profile'] displays all users with user info and bio.
[bibliplug_authors format='list'] displays all users with user info.
[bibliplug_authors format='mini'] displays all users with profile pictures.
</code></pre>
Note: 
You can use id and format in the same short code instance.
<h4>Included packages</h4>
<a href="https://github.com/clioweb/phpZotero" title="phpZotero" rel="nofollow ugc">phpZotero</a> version 0.2 by Jeremy Boggs, Sean Takats.

Enhanced BibliPlug

Collaborative bibliography management for authors in WordPress.

Author Spotlight (Widget) vs Enhanced BibliPlug