You might read many articles searching for relevant information. Alright!!
So, what’s next? Want to know who is the author of that article? Even me too, I try to find out the author’s name and bio and his relevant articles. I believe most of you do the same.
Can you add an author bio box in your blog for accepting guest posts?
It will be useful when users try to find out some information related to author so that they can connect personally with them through social media, website and email etc.
So, here I am going to share top 5 best WordPress author bio plugin
- Fancier Author Box
- WP Biographia
- Social Author Bio
- Author Box with different description
- WP About Author
Fancier Author Box
The Fancier Author Box plugin is really attractive that will make your site graceful. It has the tabs to show the author’s latest posts. It can show the author bio box above and below the post as well as it gives the option for pages too. This plugin also provides options to control the box colors. These are some settings of this Fancier Author Box:
WP Biographia
The WP Biographia plugin gives you the control over nearly every aspect of your author boxes. It gives you the display on front page, single posts, and archives. It also provides custom posts and RSS feeds. This WordPress author bio plugin displays full text bio before or after post content. It places bio box on page with short code. You can enable or disable social media links in author box. It can override bio box on a single post basis.
This plugin controls background colors, box colors and border properties. It also controls which information is shown from profile.
These are some settings options of the WP Biographia:
Social Author Bio
The Social Author Bio plugin adds number of social media icons to your bio box. The one special thing that makes it fame is the Google+ authorship and the authorship helps you to get your avatar to get appear in Google Search Results.
Instead of this authorship and social icons, you can use short codes to display the social icons, adjusting the size of images, picking up the location of the author as well as you can customize the styling of the author box using css and html boxes.
These are in-depth styling options in this WordPress author bio plugin.
Author Box with Different Description
The author box with different description plugin let the authors to put in a different bio for different posts. This will prove really helpful if you have guest bloggers with more than one post. Generally we face the issue that guest bloggers blog to promote their blog and mostly for the SEO purposes. If in case they need to use the same bio on each post, it would limit the number of things they can promote. So, this author bio plugin will help in resolving that issue.
By using the custom field metabox at the bottom of the posts, you can get a different description on the post. First, you need to add author_desc and then your customized one author bio.
It has the ability to add text or icons for different social media site.
The settings page of this plugin looks like this:
WP About Author
The WP about author plugin is a complete solution with which you can change the color of Author box, can choose where you want to show the box whether on top or bottom of the post and for which types of pages to show that box whether front page, archives, single post pages.
This is the setting page of this author bio WordPress plugin:
So, these are the top 5 best author bio plugin for WordPress that can makes your bio stand out extra little and hooking up the social profiles at the same time. I hope you like our information and can choose any one of the author bio box.