Thomas Maier

<p>When running <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Multisites</a> to maintain various top level domains or a multilingual version of your site you might probably run into the problem of having the same author description / biography on each of them.</p>
<p>This is unfortunate not only on multilingual sites.</p>
<p>Long story short, this plugin enables you to enter the author biography for each user on a per-blog basis.</p>
<p>You don’t have to do anything, but to install and activate the plugin and to enter the author bio into through the dashboard(s) of your site(s).</p>
<p>Please visit the github repository on https://github.com/webzunft/multisite-individual-author if you want to contribute, post a specific feature request or bug report.</p>
<p><strong>Some things site admins and developers might want to know:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>the plugin only works when multisite support is enabled</li>
<li>the biography is saved using a custom profile field for each blog with the pattern ‘ima_description_BLOGID’, e.g. <em>img_description_3</em></li>
<li>the filter get_the_author_description is used to load the “right” description; this is used by the<code>_author_meta()</code> and <code>get_the_author_meta()</code> functions</li>
</ul>


Individual Multisite Author

I have a personal multisite installation with numerous sites of varying content. Some require stoic professionalism in the bios, some not. Some must emphasize different aspects of the authors. For example, one is a humorous blog, one is a product documentation website. 
This plugin makes it easy for all personalities to be displayed on the appropriate site.



Works Perfectly. Exactly What I Needed.

The code is just as I would have written it myself. Just perfect! :)



Just what I needed

Unfortunately so many plugins are a mess because they try to do everything and don´t follow standards. As such I have had to write literally 100s for my own needs, some of which I have releaed in thsi repository. 

So it is refeshing when I find a plugin like this that does only one thing, does its well,a and does so without taking over wp-admin in some way. Great work

Does its job perfectly

This plugin enables individual author descriptions for each single blog in a multisite network.

Rafael @ Nocksoft

<p>Adds a modern customizable author info box at the end of your posts and pages with a short description about the author. You can display a simple author bio box in your posts and pages to show your readers and followers who you are.<br />
Your blog will become even more personal and authentic. This plugin is available in German and English language and is fully compatible with the plugin “Local Avatars by Nocksoft”.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Adds a simple lightweight Author Box at the end of your posts and/or pages with a short description about the author</li>
<li>Option for displaying a link to an own “About Me Page” in Author Box for post authors</li>
<li>Adds shortcode for Author Box so that you can insert a Author Box anywhere you want</li>
<li>Allows to hide the author box of default WordPress theme</li>
<li>Fully compatible with the plugin “Local Avatars by Nocksoft”</li>
</ul>
<h3>Setup</h3>
<ul>
<li>Install plugin.</li>
<li>(optional) Go to “Settings” -> “Author Box” to setup global settings like font sizes or other settings like look of avatars.</li>
<li>Go to user profiles to enter biographical info.</li>
<li>(optional) Go to user profiles to enter some informations about the author.</li>
<li>(optional) Go to Plugins and install the recommended plugin “Local Avatars by Nocksoft” to use local avatars.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Shortcode</h3>
<p><code>[authorbox]</code></p>


Author Box by Nocksoft

Adds a modern author info box at the end of your posts and implements local avatars as an alternative to Gravatar.

Individual Multisite Author vs Author Box by Nocksoft