Evan Mullins

Add certain company centric fields and images to your user profiles, the following fields are added to the edit user page.
<ul>
<li>job title</li>
<li>sort (a hidden field for contorlling display order)</li>
<li>html bigraphy (bio is already present, this adds an additional one which supports html)</li>
<li>skills</li>
<li>phone number</li>
<li>start date</li>
<li>picture</li>
<li>thumbnail</li>
<li>twitter</li>
<li>facebook</li>
<li>google+</li>
<li>linkedin</li>
<li>youtube</li>
</ul>
Also gives access via [cc-user-data-list] shortcode to display a list of users/authors anywhere on your site.
Attributes supported by the shortcode:
<ul>
<li>show_thumbs=”false” – hides the thumnail from the list</li>
<li>show_picture=”false” – hides the picture from the list</li>
<li>show_bio=”false” – hides the bio from the list</li>
<li>show_title=”false” – hides the job title from the list</li>
<li>show_email=”false” – hides the email from the list</li>
<li>show_name=”false” – hides the name from the list</li>
<li>show_posts=”false” – hides the authors recent posts (if any) from the list</li>
<li>show_social=”false” – hides the authors social links (if any) in the list</li>
</ul>
<h3>Roadmap</h3>
Things in consideration for future development
<ul>
<li>Create your own fields interface</li>
<li>Drag/drop update sort order</li>
<li>Sort by sort order on user index page</li>
<li>Calendar for date</li>
<li>Add fields…</li>
<li>Add shortcode options for sorting behavior</li>
<li>Add shortcode option for getting specific users, or roles only</li>
</ul>

CC User Data

Add certain fields and images to your user profiles. Also gives access via shortcode to display a list of users/authors anywhere on your site.

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:
<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.

CC User Data vs Limit Bio