Title: Author bio(s)
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Author bio(s)

 *  [NWTD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nwtechie/)
 * (@nwtechie)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-bios/)
 * I’ve noticed that if a author has a bio completed, then it displays at the bottom
   of the post when looking at a single post.
 * Is there a way to show an excerpt (either manually or automatically created) 
   at the bottom of each post?
 * Additionally, is there a way to query all of the others of a site and display
   them on a page? In this case, the bios would be the full bio and not an excerpt.
 * TIA

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-bios/#post-2672835)
 * what theme are you using?
 * it is possibly using:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_author_meta](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_author_meta)
   you could create an excerpt using `substr()`
 * for a page with (all) authors and their info, try to create a page template [http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Page_Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Page_Templates)
   with `get_users()` [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_users](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_users)
 *  Thread Starter [NWTD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nwtechie/)
 * (@nwtechie)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-bios/#post-2672963)
 * Sorry, forgot to mention that I’m using the TwentyEleven theme.
 * Thanks for that info!
 * I’m not too familiar with PHP, so forgive my ignorance. To get an excerpt, I 
   would assume that on the single post page, I would change the author meta:
 * `<?php the_author_meta( 'description' ); ?>`
 * to something like:
 * `<?php echo substr('$description', 0, 140); ?>`
 * ?
 * Assuming I just wanted the first 140 characters on the author’s bio?
 * Thanks!
 *  [newsdevice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/newsdevice/)
 * (@newsdevice)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-bios/#post-2672965)
 * Actually, you can create a custom author.php file; [here is an example](http://codex.wordpress.org/Author_Templates#Sample_Template_File).
 *  Thread Starter [NWTD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nwtechie/)
 * (@nwtechie)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-bios/#post-2672976)
 * That works and I think a custom author page will be fairly simple. I’m just stuck
   on creating an excerpt for the author’s bios.
 *  [PhpcoSqsil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/infoservicos/)
 * (@infoservicos)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-bios/#post-2673072)
 * Found a solution [here](http://ayudawordpress.com/tutorial-crear-una-barra-con-los-datos-del-autor/#)!
 *     ```
       <p>
       <?php
       //Con esto imprimimos los primeros 140 caracteres (a lo twitter) de la descripción
       echo substr( get_the_author_meta('user_description') , 0 , 140 );
       ?>
       </p>
       ```
   

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
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 * Last activity: [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-bios/#post-2673072)
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