Display multiple bios by username or userid

  • I don’t know if you’re still actively supporting and developing this plug-in, but I’ve been working with it, by now a fork of it, for several weeks off an on.

    Among the changes: additional profile fields and icons for social media of particular interest to me and my users/authors, including options for a public contact email and home page (the latter taking up the WordPress website URL); a recent posts listing and other links within the bio box; functions for displaying a different version of the bio on author pages, with extended biography.

    What I’m now working on, after originally anticipating something easier!, is display bios outside of the Loop – for instance on an anticipated “Contributors” page. Easiest would be to display them by USER ID, though listing them by anything else from their usermeta would of course be easy once the USER IDs are collected in an array.

    I’m currently looking at the possibility of re-writing functions that use get_the_author_meta for get_user_meta while accessing the caa_Author array, while seeing if I can use already present functions as much as possible, though I know they weren’t built with this use in mind.

    I won’t go into extensive detail here right now, but I’m wondering if you have already done any work along this path or have any suggestions. If you’re no longer supporting or working on this plug-in, I understand, but might at some future point (not urgently!) like to fork it “officially,” or, if you prefer, take it over.

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  • Hi! I am looking exactly for features which you had wrote about 1 year ago. Did you make any improvements since then and would be so kind to share it? Especially the one with “Contributors” page?

    Thread Starter CK MacLeod

    (@ck-macleod)

    Hi – with the lack of interest from the developer, I restricted myself to implementing a custom version for one site, and had almost forgotten about this while focusing on other projects!
    You can find the implementation as currently in use here:

    Contributors Page

    The Biography Boxes appear at the bottoms of posts and at the tops of individual author pages. Just click on the author names or recent posts titles.

    It would be a bit complex to try to share here, but we could conceivably work something out involving a custom installation.

    I must admit it looks really amazing. Do you really think it would be possible to implement it at my site? What kind of skill I need to posses to do it, because I am not especially skilled with creating websites. I can follow instructions but I don’t really understand each line of code.

    Just in case my email: biel.radoslaw @ gmail . com

    Thread Starter CK MacLeod

    (@ck-macleod)

    Thanks. I’ll just say here that, if your site is a standard WordPress site, there’s no reason that something like the above could not be implemented. I’ll reserve the rest for direct communications between us. Look for my email in a bit.

    Thread Starter CK MacLeod

    (@ck-macleod)

    (You can also contact me via the form at my site, which is listed under my www.ads-software.com profile page)

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