Title: Meta Author Box
Author: Shaugat Ashraf Khan
Published: <strong>February 27, 2024</strong>
Last modified: February 5, 2025

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Meta Author Box

 By [Shaugat Ashraf Khan](https://profiles.wordpress.org/shaugatashraf98/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/meta-author-box.1.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/meta-author-box/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/meta-author-box/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/meta-author-box/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/meta-author-box/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/meta-author-box/)

## Description

Meta Author Box adds a responsive author box at the end of your posts, showing the
author name, author image and author description – author bio.

#### Main Features

 * Shows custom author image
 * Show custom author name and author description (author bio)
 * Nice looking on desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile phones
 * Automatically insert the author box at the end of your post
 * Great for guest posts, and guest authors

#### GDPR Compatibility

We are not lawyers. Please do not take any of the following as legal advice.
 Meta
Author Box does not track, collect or process any user data.

## Installation

 1. Download the plugin (.zip file) on your hard drive.
 2. Unzip the zip file contents.
 3. Upload the `simple-author-box` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
 4. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
 5. A new meta info section will appear in your Add New Post page.

## FAQ

### Why does the author box not display on a page?

The Meta Author Box plugin was designed to display the author information on posts.
The plugin does not work on pages – it was not designed for this, unfortunately.

### I have two author boxes. How can I hide one?

The second author box might be a theme feature and you will need to turn it off 
from your theme’s options, or hide it with custom CSS.

### How can I get support?

You can get free support here on the support forums

### How can I say thanks?

You can say thank you by leaving us a review. Or you can give back by recommending
this amazing plugin to your friends!

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Meta Author Box” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Shaugat Ashraf Khan ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/shaugatashraf98/)

[Translate “Meta Author Box” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/meta-author-box)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/meta-author-box/), 
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/meta-author-box/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/meta-author-box/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/meta-author-box/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **1 year ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.6 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.7.5**
 *  PHP version ** 5.6 or higher **
 * Tags
 * [author bio](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/author-bio/)[author box](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/author-box/)
   [Author Profile](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/author-profile/)[guest author](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/guest-author/)
   [responsive author box](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/responsive-author-box/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/meta-author-box/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Shaugat Ashraf Khan ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/shaugatashraf98/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/meta-author-box/)