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Social Author Bio adds a author bio box with the author's avatar with built-in and custom social icons on pages/posts.

Examples

• Social Author Bio Main Site
• Social Author Bio Example

New to version 2.4

Thanks for all your great suggestions

• Fully integrated Google+ authorship (shows Google+ Avatar in search results)
• Added custom field (check box) on edit screen providing the ability to disable of author box on individual pages/posts
• New shortcode [social_bio_icons] which displays only the Social Icons
• Ability to adjust avatar size (admin)
• Choice of location, top or bottom, for automatic placement of Social Author Bio
• Number of custom links increased from 5 to 10
• Added %home% (The home URL) variable to advanced HTML section

Built in Social Icons

AIM, Digg, eMail, Facebook, Google+, iCompositions, ICQ, LinkedIn, MSN, MySpace, Pinterest, Reverbnation, Skype, Soundcloud, Technorati, Twitter, Yahoo, YouTube

Custom Social Icons

Admin can create up to 5 custom social icons

Admin can control the following options from the settings menu:

• Enable/disable use of Google+ authorship sitewide
• Complete control over HTML that produces the Social Author Bio
• Complete control over CSS that styles the Social Author Bio
• Enable/disable built in and custom social icons site wide
• Admin can enable/disable Social Author Bio display on Pages, Posts, and/or shortcodes.
• Which role to start using Social Author Bio (defaults to Contributor)
• What prefix to display before user's name.
• Location of bio box, top or bottom, for automatic placement of Social Author Bio
• Avatar size

Users can control the following options from their profile page:

• Enable/disable Social Author Bio for their profile
• Choice of website icon (WordPress, Blogger, or website)
• Enable/disable use of Google+ authorship for their profile
• Enable/disable the built in or custom social icons on their profile
• Configure each social icon's user, username, id, etc.
• Use shortcode [social-bio] in pages/posts
• Use shortcode [social-bio id=xxx] where xxx is a user id to display

If enabled by Admin & Author Social Author Bio is displayed automatically on post/pages.

If enabled by Admin, Authors can use the [social-bio] and/or the [social_bio_icons] shortcodes in posts/pages. The shortcode can be used even if the Author disables Social Author Bio in their profile. This allows the Author to tag selected posts with their Social Author Bio.

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