RiverCityGraphix

The Limit Bio plugin allows you to quickly limit the character count on the biographical information field on the edit profile page of your site.
Features:
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<li>Admin settings to restrict the biography character count site wide.</li>
<li>Limits Users to a specific character count in their bio</li>
<li>Displays the remaining characters allowed and updates in real time as the user types.</li>
<li>Works even if Javascript is disabled</li>
<li>Stops a user from typing when the character count is reached</li>
<li>Replaces the default biographical information field in the wordpress profile</li>
</ul>

Limit Bio

The Limit Bio plugin allows you to quickly limit the character count on the biographical information field on the edit profile page of your site.

Philip John

This plugin allows you to enter [author_bio] anywhere within the content of a post or page to display the biography of the author of that post or page.
The output now contains HTML, which can be customised very easily with extra parameters – see Installation for a how-to – to sit around the bio, as defined in /wp-admin/profile.php.
By default the shortcode produces the author of that post or page. However, extra parameters enable you to specify a different user whose bio you want to print out – see usage instructions.
Feature requests welcomed with open arms!

Author Bio Shortcode

Provides the [author_bio] shortcode for embedding the bio of an author anywhere in the post/page content.

Limit Bio vs Author Bio Shortcode