Individual Multisite Author Reviews, Downloads & Maintenance

When running WordPress Multisites to maintain various top level domains or a multilingual version of your site you might probably run into the problem of having the same author description / biography on each of them.

This is unfortunate not only on multilingual sites.

Long story short, this plugin enables you to enter the author biography for each user on a per-blog basis.

You don’t have to do anything, but to install and activate the plugin and to enter the author bio into through the dashboard(s) of your site(s).

Please visit the github repository on https://github.com/webzunft/multisite-individual-author if you want to contribute, post a specific feature request or bug report.

Some things site admins and developers might want to know:

the plugin only works when multisite support is enabled
the biography is saved using a custom profile field for each blog with the pattern ‘ima_description_BLOGID’, e.g. img_description_3
the filter get_the_author_description is used to load the “right” description; this is used by the_author_meta() and get_the_author_meta() functions

Installation

Upload the folder individual-multisite-author to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the IMA through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

You will now see an additional field for the author description when you visit the author profile.
This field is individual for each blog, so make sure you first login to the right dashboard when changing the authors bio for a specific site in your multisite environment.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Review feed

John Morris

9/3/2016

Works Perfectly. Exactly What I Needed.

I have a personal multisite installation with numerous sites of varying content. Some require stoic professionalism in the bios, some not. Some must emphasize different aspects of the authors. For example, one is a humorous blog, one is a product documentation website. This plugin makes it easy for all personalities to be displayed on the appropriate site.

Bernhard Kau

9/3/2016

Just what I needed

The code is just as I would have written it myself. Just perfect! :)

shawfactor

9/26/2021

Does its job perfectly

Unfortunately so many plugins are a mess because they try to do everything and don´t follow standards. As such I have had to write literally 100s for my own needs, some of which I have releaed in thsi repository. So it is refeshing when I find a plugin like this that does only one thing, does its well,a and does so without taking over wp-admin in some way. Great work

Screenshots

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Changelog

1.4.0

allow to translate the plugin through wordpress.org, props @2ndkauboy
show a warning if the current site is not a multisite, props @2ndkauboy
secure user data while allowing some HTML in the description, props @2ndkauboy
fix PHP 8.2 deprecation warning, props @2ndkauboy

1.3.1

reverted escaping from name and description to allow HTML again

1.3

added field for site-specific author name, props to a user
escaped name and description when saved to the database

1.2.5

added French translation

1.2.4

fixed broken textdomain reference, thanks @rwatuny

1.2.3

adjust coding to wordpress (extra) standard
fix deprecation notice for WP 3.0+ (update_usermeta)
minor code ‘optimisation’

1.2.2

fixing a bug that prevented the plugin from being loaded completely

1.2.1

html tags are now allowed in the bio

1.2.0

added textdomain
added German translation to test textdomain

1.1.0

(confused commit, please ignore)

1.0.2

input field for individual description is now bigger
added short description for the plugin
use default description if no site specific description is provided.

1.0.1

updated files, to fix showing the plugin on wordpress.org

1.0

initializing the plugin

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