RiverCityGraphix

<p>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.</p>
<p>Features:</p>
<ul>
<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.

kengimel

<p>This plugin provides simple author bio box to give visitors to your website a quick/brief information on the author background.</p>
<p>This plugin is an extract from <a href="http://globalfoodbook.com" rel="nofollow ugc">globalfoodbook.com</a> and is contributed back as open-source material (available free of charge).</p>
<p>This plugin is built to help other site owners who require this author bio tool with flexible configurable options.</p>
<p>It is implemented to allow easy setup and customization of a blog’s author bio sidebar widget.</p>
<p>It is best used with food and cook recipe theme made with woo-themes.</p>
<h3>Notes to developers</h3>
<h4>Contributing</h4>
<p>If you would like to contribute to our suite of plugins, head on over to <a href="https://github.com/globalfoodbook" rel="nofollow ugc">Global Food Book Labs</a>. Feel free to fork and contribute back.</p>
<ol>
<li>Fork it (https://github.com/globalfoodbook/gfb_author_bio)</li>
<li>Create your feature branch (<code>git checkout -b my-new-feature</code>)</li>
<li>Commit your changes (<code>git commit -am 'Add some feature'</code>)</li>
<li>Push to the branch (<code>git push origin my-new-feature</code>)</li>
<li>Create a new Pull Request</li>
</ol>
<h4>Adding Screenshots to the wordpress repo</h4>
<ol>
<li>Rename each screenshot for each step like this. For step 1 the screenshot is screenshot-1.png.</li>
<li>The banner image is named as banner-772×250.png.</li>
<li>Use an SVN client like smart svn or rapid svn etc to uploads these images to the /assets folder.</li>
<li>After this commit and all will be picked up.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Pushing plugin to wordpress svn repo</h4>
<ol>
<li>
<p>Clone this repo</p>
<pre><code>      git clone git@github.com:globalfoodbook/gfb-author-bio-widget.git
</code></pre>
</li>
<li>
<p>cd path/to/gfb-author-bio-widget</p>
</li>
<li>vim .git/config</li>
<li>
<p>Add the code below:</p>
<pre><code>  [svn-remote "svn"]
          url = https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/[plugin_name]/trunk
          fetch = :refs/remotes/git-svn
</code></pre>
</li>
<li>
<p>Then merge the master into the new branch:</p>
<pre><code>      git svn fetch svn
      git checkout -b svn git-svn
      git merge master
      git svn dcommit --username [wordpress.org username]
</code></pre>
</li>
<li>
<p>Then rebase that branch to the master, and you can dcommit from the master to svn</p>
<pre><code>      git checkout master
      git rebase svn
      git branch -d svn
      git svn dcommit --username [wordpress.org username]
</code></pre>
</li>
</ol>


Global Food Book's Author Biography Widget

This makes it easy to setup a brief synopsis of the author's biography on the sidebar. Best used in food & cook theme or woo-themes.

Limit Bio vs Global Food Book's Author Biography Widget