Title: Author resource box
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Author resource box

 *  Resolved [saralex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saralex/)
 * (@saralex)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-resource-box/)
 * Hello, I’m trying to add a resource box (this is the “author bio” that is below
   an article body and it’s also known as your “signature”) at the end of every 
   article.
 * Obviuosly, each author will its own resource box. I thought about using the “
   About yourself” field in the user profile to store a url to a .php file containing
   the signature of the individual user.
 * My intention is then to retrive the url to include the .php file at the end of
   the article. Sort of:
 * <?php include(the_author_description();) ?>
 * But this line of code doesn’t work.
    Any suggestion?
 * Thank you and sorry for my not so good english.
    Alex

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 *  [scribblerguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribblerguy/)
 * (@scribblerguy)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-resource-box/#post-782706)
 * Unless you’re doing something extra complex, just have each author put their 
   miniature biography in the “About Yourself” box. That way, the information can
   be edited inside WP, instead of manually editing a PHP file.
 * Please take a look at the [Author Template Tags](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags)
   and see if using a combination of those can do what you want.
 * Instead of separate files, can all this be done with conditional statements in
   the single.php template file?
 *     ```
       if (get_the_author_nickname() == "saralex") {
        // do something
       } elseif (get_the_author_nickname() == "Another Name") {
        // do something else
       } else {
        // when all else fails, do the default
       }
       ```
   
 * Consider taking a look at this tutorial: [PHP Easy PHP Tutorial for WordPress Users](http://adambrown.info/b/widgets/easy-php-tutorial-for-wordpress-users/)
 * Other notes:
    -WordPress template tags that begin with “the_” generally output(
   print) the information. Template tags that begin with “get_” usually return the
   information for use inside a function.
 * -In PHP coding, a semi-colon (“**;**“) is used to denote the end of a line of
   code. Using it inside a function such as `include()` will cause errors.
 * Now, if you were to include a file like you originally wanted, your best bet 
   would be to use something like the following:
 * `<?php include( get_bloginfo('wpurl') . '/wp-content/my-includes/' . get_the_author_ID().'.
   php' ); ?>` where get_the_author_ID returns the user ID (a number) for the author.
 *  Thread Starter [saralex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saralex/)
 * (@saralex)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-resource-box/#post-782722)
 * Thank you very much.
    Your answer is truly GREAT.
 * Thanks again for your help.
 * All the best,
    Alex

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [saralex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saralex/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-resource-box/#post-782722)
 * Status: resolved

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