Author Bio Shortcode

Installation

Simple install in /wp-content/plugins like any other!

Usage

Simply place [author_bio] anywhere within your post/page content.

Additionally, you can pass one of the following attributes to specify a different user;

• id – accepts the user ID
• username – accepts the username
• email – accepts the user e-mail address

For example;
[author_bio]
[author_bio id= »4″]
[author_bio username= »admin »]
[author_bio email= »user@example.com »]

You can also have the author’s avatar added, by using the avatar parameter like so;
[author_bio avatar= »yes »]
Warning: if you don’t want the avatar, do not change the above to « no » as it will not work, simply change back to [author_bio] alone.

It’s possible to add the author’s name, too by adding the name parameter;
[author_bio name= »yes »]
Warning: As with the avatar option, leave the name parameter out completely to hide the name.

Additionally, you can make the author’s name link to his/her website as defined in their profile;
[author_bio name= »yes » name_link= »yes »]

You can also customise the HTML output which defaults to;

… the author bio …

There are 7 parameters that describe the HTML above;

• ‘container_element’ defaults to ‘div’ and creates the first div in the example above
• ‘container_class’ defaults to ‘author_bio_shortcode’ as seen above
• ‘name_container’ defaults to h3
• ‘name_class’ defaults to ‘name’
• ‘name_pre’ is empty by default and can be used to add text before the author’s name
• ‘name_post’ is empty by default and can be used to add text after the author’s name
• ‘avatar_container_element’ defaults to ‘div’ and creates the element that surrounds the avatar image
• ‘avatar_container_class’ defaults to ‘avatar’ and adds itself to the ‘avatar_container_element’
• ‘bio_container_element’ defaults to ‘div’ and wraps the bio text
• ‘bio_container_class’ defaults to ‘bio’ and is used in the bio container element
• ‘bio_paragraph’ defaults to true and decides whether to put the bio text into a Paragrah tag. Note, only a value of zero (0) will change it, e.g. bio_paragraph=0

Here is an example using all the HTML parameters to re-create the above example code;
[author_bio container_element= »div » container_class= »author-bio-shortcode » avatar_container_element= »div » avatar_container_class= »avatar » bio_container_element= »div » bio_container_class= »bio » bio_paragraph= »true »]

This example shows how to remove the P tag from around the bio text;
[author_bio bio_paragraph=0]