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.

codeadapted

<p>Multisite Author Bio simplifies managing unique user biographical information across multiple sites in a WordPress Multisite network. This plugin allows administrators to update author bios from a single user edit page, streamlining the process of managing bio variations across different sites without having to switch between site dashboards.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Centralized Bio Management</strong>: View and edit author bio variations for all sites from one user profile page.</li>
<li><strong>No Site Switching</strong>: Edit the author bio for multiple sites from a single location, without needing to switch between dashboards.</li>
<li><strong>Seamless Multisite Integration</strong>: Works seamlessly within WordPress Multisite environments, allowing bio information to be site-specific.</li>
<li><strong>Data Retention Control</strong>: Decide whether plugin data should be retained or deleted upon uninstallation via the data retention setting.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<h4>Manage Author Bio Variations</h4>
<ol>
<li>Navigate to any user’s <strong>Edit Profile</strong> page.</li>
<li>Scroll down to the <strong>Multisite Author Bio</strong> section near the bottom of the page.</li>
<li>The dropdown will display the list of sites in your network. Select a site to view or edit the author bio for that specific site.</li>
<li>Enter or update the author bio in the provided field.</li>
<li>Click <strong>Update User</strong> to save the changes.</li>
<li>The updated bio will now appear on the selected site.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Data Retention Setting</h4>
<ol>
<li>Go to <strong>Settings > Multisite Author Bio</strong> in the Network Admin dashboard.</li>
<li>Enable or disable the <strong>Clear Data on Uninstall</strong> option:
<ul>
<li><strong>Enabled</strong>: All plugin-related data, including author bio variations, will be deleted when the plugin is uninstalled.</li>
<li><strong>Disabled</strong>: Data will be retained after uninstallation.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 or later. You can view the full license here: <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GPLv2 License</a>.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Developed by CodeAdapted.</li>
</ul>


Multisite Author Bio

Multisite Author Bio allows you to easily manage unique user biographical information across each site in a WordPress Multisite network.

Individual Multisite Author vs Multisite Author Bio