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Are you a WordPress developer OR you are a blogger and blogging on the WordPress platform, then this tutorial is designed for you, so keep your close attention in this post as I am going to share how to add an author box to your WordPress site. If you are running a multi-author blog and want to add an author box below the content of every blog post of your WordPress blog, then follow this tutorial.
There are two ways to add an author box to your WordPress websites, first, you can do add this a WordPress plugin and second, you can do by using the custom WordPress code. There are several WordPress plugins for this. Below are the some of them:
Simple Author Box will add a responsive author box at the end of the every your WordPress post showing the author name, author gravatar and author description. It also adds over 30 social profile fields on WordPress user profile screen, and author icons.
This is a simple WordPress plugin which will add an author box under the every blog post. You can also add the social media icons like Facebook, twitter, google plus and etc.. in the author box.
Above are the simple way to add an author box under the every blog post, but if do not want to add an author box by using any WordPress Plugins, Add below code in your single content page to display an author box on every blog post.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 | < ?php // Get Author Data $author = get_the_author(); $author_description = get_the_author_meta( 'description' ); $author_url = esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ); $author_avatar = get_avatar( get_the_author_meta( 'user_email' ), apply_filters( 'wpex_author_bio_avatar_size', 75 ) ); // Only display if author has a description if ( $author_description ) : ?> < ?php printf( esc_html__( 'Written by %s', 'text_domain' ), esc_html( $author ) ); ?> < ?php if ( $author_avatar ) { ?> < ?php } ?> < ?php echo wp_kses_post( $author_description ); ?> < ?php endif; ?> |
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