Display a default bio for all members?

you will possibly need to edit content-single.php and author.php (i.e. copy these templates into your child theme and edit them there);

in content-single.php, find the section starting with this line:

<?php if ( get_the_author_meta( 'description' ) && is_multi_author() ) : // If a user has filled out their description and this is a multi-author blog, show a bio on their entries ?>

and ending with:

</div><!-- #entry-author-info -->
		<?php endif; ?>

before the <?php endif; ?> add a ‘else’ section where you copy all the html tags, but with default content;
example:

<?php else : ?>
whatever default bio you want to show

(use/replicate the existing html tags/structure for the default bio)

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similar in author.php; the section starts with:

<?php
				// If a user has filled out their description, show a bio on their entries.
				if ( get_the_author_meta( 'description' ) ) : ?>

and ends in:

</div><!-- #entry-author-info -->
				<?php endif; ?>

again, add the ‘else’ code with the default bio before the ‘endif’ line.

Thanks alchymyth, that looks like it would work. Annoyingly I’m using an authorbox plugin on my pages, so this method wont work for me. I think I was hoping for a fix that effected the function for calling the bio wordpress, not just on a template level. But this is my fault for not listing all of my info, sorry (it still might work in the authorbox plugin somewhere)

I’m using authorbox reloaded plugin “get_the_author_meta( ‘description'” is used to call the description still. Heres a snippet of the code…

public function authorbox_display() {
		global $author;

		$author_name = get_the_author_meta( 'display_name', $author );
		$author_photo = get_avatar( get_the_author_meta( 'user_email', $author ), '100', '', $author_name );
		$author_photo = str_replace( '<img ', '<img id="authorbox-photo" title="'.$author_name.'" ', $author_photo );

		$box  = '	<div id="authorbox">'
					.'		<div class="clear">'
					.'			<p>' . $author_photo
					.'			<strong>' . str_replace( " ", "-", $author_name ) . ': MORE ABOUT THE AUTHOR</strong><br>' . get_the_author_meta( 'description', $author ) . '<br><strong><a href="'.get_bloginfo('wpurl').'/author/' . str_replace( " ", "-", $author_name ) . '">View all entries by ' . str_replace( " ", "-", $author_name ) . ' ></a></strong></p>'

					.'		</div>';