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

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Sajib Talukder

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