Where to find and customise author bio

  • Resolved browntel

    (@browntel)


    9 years, 2 months ago

    Hi There

    I am busy customising a WordPress site for a friend and would like to edit the author bio box (the Published By box appearing under a blog post).

    On a test site I set up with the Longevity theme, I can see the author bio box, but on her current site, there is no author bio box.

    Two questions:
    1) Where can I find the option to enable/disable the visibility of this feature?
    2) Is there a way I can customise it to add the Social Media icons/links from her profile?

    Both sites are on the same version of WordPress and Longevity theme, as well as the same plugins.

    Thanks for reading this, and any help will be greatly appreciated.

    • This topic was modified 9 years, 2 months ago by browntel.
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  • Theme Author Shaped Pixels

    (@shaped-pixels)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    Unfortunately disabling the author bio has no setting for it, but if you need to hide it, you can do it with some custom CSs in the Additional CSS tab of the customizer:

    .author-info {
    display: none;
}

    Regarding your second question about adding social media icons/links to the bio, you would have to create a child theme and then override that theme’s template file, and then add in your own code. You might want to check for author bio type plugins. I’m not sure if any exist, but knowing WordPress, I’m sure there is at least one that has the functionality/features that you are referring to.

    One note about the author bio, this only shows if you have more than one author on the site.

    Thread Starter browntel

    (@browntel)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    hmm, thanks for the CSS tip. I might use that in future.

    Both sites have 2 authors, yet one has the author info, and the other doesn’t. 🙂

    There is no custom CSS or custom editing of the theme files, as well as no plugins related to author bio/info display.

    Below are examples of what I’m seeing. One site is a clone for testing purposes. Both are the same article.

    Examples:
    Author-info displaying (http://skyewaters.com/playpen/keeping-the-tooth-fairy-alive/)
    Author-info not displaying (http://skyewaters.com/keeping-the-tooth-fairy-alive/)

    Any other thoughts on why the author-info is not displayed?

    Theme Author Shaped Pixels

    (@shaped-pixels)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    Each author needs at least 1 post (article) published for both to show; only the author without a post (yet) will not be shown. This is how WordPress functions with their authorship.

    Thread Starter browntel

    (@browntel)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks for clarifying that.

    I’ll use the display-none css for now.

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