Nick Powers

<p><a href="http://nickpowers.info/wordpress-plugins/social-author-bio/" rel="nofollow ugc">Social Author Bio</a> adds a author bio box with the author’s avatar with built-in and custom social icons on pages/posts.</p>
<h4>Examples</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://nickpowers.info/wordpress-plugins/social-author-bio/" rel="nofollow ugc">Social Author Bio Main Site</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.elirose.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Social Author Bio Example</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>New to version 2.4</h4>
<p>Thanks for all your great suggestions</p>
<ul>
<li>Fully integrated Google+ authorship (shows Google+ Avatar in search results)</li>
<li>Added custom field (check box) on edit screen providing the ability to disable of author box on individual pages/posts</li>
<li>New shortcode [social_bio_icons] which displays only the Social Icons</li>
<li>Ability to adjust avatar size (admin)</li>
<li>Choice of location, top or bottom, for automatic placement of Social Author Bio</li>
<li>Number of custom links increased from 5 to 10</li>
<li>Added %home% (The home URL) variable to advanced HTML section</li>
</ul>
<h4>Built in Social Icons</h4>
<p>AIM, Digg, eMail, Facebook, Google+, iCompositions, ICQ, LinkedIn, MSN, MySpace, Pinterest, Reverbnation, Skype, Soundcloud, Technorati, Twitter, Yahoo, YouTube</p>
<h4>Custom Social Icons</h4>
<p>Admin can create up to 5 custom social icons</p>
<p><strong>Admin</strong> can control the following options from the settings menu:</p>
<ul>
<li>Enable/disable use of Google+ authorship sitewide</li>
<li>Complete control over HTML that produces the Social Author Bio</li>
<li>Complete control over CSS that styles the Social Author Bio</li>
<li>Enable/disable built in and custom social icons site wide</li>
<li>Admin can enable/disable Social Author Bio display on Pages, Posts, and/or shortcodes.</li>
<li>Which role to start using Social Author Bio (defaults to Contributor) </li>
<li>What prefix to display before user’s name.</li>
<li>Location of bio box, top or bottom, for automatic placement of Social Author Bio</li>
<li>Avatar size</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Users</strong> can control the following options from their profile page:</p>
<ul>
<li>Enable/disable Social Author Bio for their profile</li>
<li>Choice of website icon (WordPress, Blogger, or website)</li>
<li>Enable/disable use of Google+ authorship for their profile</li>
<li>Enable/disable the built in or custom social icons on their profile</li>
<li>Configure each social icon’s user, username, id, etc.</li>
<li>Use shortcode [social-bio] in pages/posts</li>
<li>Use shortcode [social-bio id=xxx] where xxx is a user id to display</li>
</ul>
<p>If enabled by Admin & Author Social Author Bio is displayed automatically on post/pages.</p>
<p>If enabled by Admin, Authors can use the [social-bio] and/or the [social_bio_icons] shortcodes in posts/pages.<br />
The shortcode can be used even if the Author disables Social Author Bio in their profile.<br />
This allows the Author to tag selected posts with their Social Author Bio.</p>
<p>If you have suggestions for a new add-on, feel free to <a href="http://nickpowers.info/contact-social-author-bio/" rel="nofollow ugc">Email</a> me.</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>Copyright (C) 2012  Nick Powers</p>
<p>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or<br />
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License<br />
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2<br />
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.</p>
<p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,<br />
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of<br />
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the<br />
GNU General Public License for more details.</p>
<p>You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License<br />
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software<br />
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.<br />
<a href="www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GPL V2.0</a></p>
<p>Nick Powers<br />
<a href="http://nickpowers.info" rel="nofollow ugc">NickPowers.info</a><br />
<a href="http://nickpowers.info/contact-social-author-bio/" rel="nofollow ugc">Email</a></p>


Social Author Bio

Social Author Bio automatically adds an author bio box along with Gravatar and social icons on posts. Now with built in Google Author!

WebFactory

<p><a href="https://wpauthorbox.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Simple Author Box</a> adds a responsive author box at the end of your posts, showing the author name, author gravatar and author description – author bio. It also adds over 30 social profile fields on WordPress user profile screen, allowing to display the author social icons in the author box.</p>
<h4>Main Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Shows author gravatar, name, website, description (author bio) and social icons</li>
<li>Fully customizable to match your theme design (style, color, size and text options)</li>
<li>Nice looking on desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile phones</li>
<li>Automatically insert the author box at the end of your post</li>
<li>Option to manually insert the author box on your template file (single.php or author.php)</li>
<li>Simple Author Box has RTL support</li>
<li>Simple Author Box has AMP support</li>
<li>Great for guest posts, and guest authors</li>
<li>GDPR compatible Bunny Fonts</li>
</ul>
<h4>Simple Author Box Pro Features</h4>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Premium features only available in <a href="https://wpauthorbox.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Simple Author Box Pro</a></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Change author box position to before/after content</li>
<li>Choose whether the author’s name should link to its website/page/none</li>
<li>Select where to show author box on</li>
<li>Add rotate effect on author avatar hover</li>
<li>Option to open author website link in a new tab</li>
<li>Option to add “nofollow” attribute on author website link</li>
<li>Choose the author website’s position: right/left</li>
<li>Social icons type, style, rotate effect, shadow effect, thin border</li>
<li>Option to change the color palette</li>
<li>Choose the font and font sizes for the author’s job title, website, name, and description</li>
<li>Enable guest authors and co-authors</li>
<li>Option to use guest authors as co-authors</li>
<li>Top authors widget – displays the most popular authors based of comments</li>
<li>Simple author box widget – displays the users selected</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p><a href="https://wpauthorbox.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more</a> about the Simple Author Box advanced features.</p>
<h4>GDPR Compatibility</h4>
<p>We are not lawyers. Please do not take any of the following as legal advice.<br />
Simple Author Box does not track, collect or process any user data. If you opt to use Bunny Fonts they will be loaded from a 3rd party CDN. In that case user data will be processed according to their terms of service. Based on that, we feel it’s GDPR compatible, but again, please, don’t take this as legal advice.</p>


Simple Author Box

Add a responsive author box or guest author box with social icons to any post. Great author box for any site!

Social Author Bio vs Simple Author Box