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Authors: vicchi, wpsmith

This plugin allows you to add a customisable biography to posts, to RSS feeds, to pages, to archives and to each post on your blog's landing page. It integrates out of the box with the information that can be provided in each user's profile and supports custom post types. Display of the Biography Box can be suppressed on a global or per user basis for posts, pages and custom post types.

Settings and options include:

1. Choose when to display a Biography Box; on the front page, in archives, on individual posts, pages, or any other custom post type and in RSS feeds.
2. Choose the border style and background color of the Biography Box
3. Choose the amount of user profile information displayed in the Biography Box
4. Choose the avatar image size
5. Choose to display the Biography Box at the top or the bottom of content (universally)
6. Choose to suppress the display of the Biography Box for pages, posts and posts/pages on a per user basis

The plugin expands and enhances the Contact Info section of your user profile, adding support for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Delicious, Flickr, Picasa, Vimeo, YouTube and Reddit profile links as well as Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, Windows Live Messenger and Jabber/Google Talk instant messaging profiles. Your Contact Info links can then be displayed as part of the Biography Box, either as plain text links or as icon links.

The plugin also has an added filter and shortcode ([wp_biographia]) to add further customisation. For example, if you use page templates to display custom post types on your blog, you can simply use filter ('wp_biographia_pattern') to decide how you'd like to customise. If you want the Biography Box to appear at the bottom but on archive pages, you want them at the top, then the filter can do that as well, or simply use the shortcode to control where it appears in a post of any post type. For more information on how to use the [wp_biographia] shortcode, see the Shortcode Support And Usage section.