Author box or author bio section is a vital element of a website as it shows the biography and personal information about the author who writes the articles. Almost every theme comes with a default author bio section which displays the information about authors. If you are bored with the default design of author box and want to replace it with new one then the following WordPress Author Bio Plugins can help you out.
These plugins include myriad of features and functions by which you can create various beautiful author box sections for your websites. This plugins support almost every social network, comes with responsive and retina design, prebuilt styles, and also with user roles.
Here is the list of WordPress Author Bio Plugins for 2017.
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1. WP Author Bio
WP Author Bio is a WordPress author bio plugin that supports single and multiple authors with Co-Authors Plus. It offers tons of options to customize the box after WordPress posts about the author(s).
The author bio box is responsive and includes five sexy social icon sets to choose from, with support for all the following social networks: Behance, Blogger, Delicious, DeviantArt, Dribbble, Facebook, Flickr, GitHub, Google+, Instagram, LinkedIn, MySpace, Pinterest, RSS, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, Twitter, Vimeo, WordPress, Yahoo! & YouTube.
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2. Fancier Author Box
This plugin shows two tabs first one is for author box and the second one is for the social media links. You can show all the premium social media profiles to attract a user to your social network.
You have the option to show the author bio box above as well as below the post or both. You can show the bio box in all content type like posts, pages, and custom post types.
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3. Elite Members
Elite Members is a WordPress plugin for displaying top contributors/authors in a site. With multiple layouts to choose from, Elite Members can display authors in grids and lists.
The plugin is also packed with an author box that can be inserted at the bottom of each post. With different styles in mind, the author box will display links to top social website and author’s biography. Custom fields are available for Authors to add their social links from their profile.
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4. Custom About Author
This plugin acknowledges authors for their post by displaying a brief biography about them at the end of their post. This plugin is perfect if you have multiple guest bloggers on your website and they do not each have a user account.
It also gives an added incentive for bloggers to write guest posts on your site. Multiple custom profiles can be created and they take preference over website user profiles. You also have the option to specify a specific profile to display for each post.
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5. Co Authors Plus
Assign multiple bylines to posts, pages, and custom post types via a search-as-you-type input box. Co-authored posts appear on a co-author’s archive page and in their feed. Co-authors may edit the posts they are associated with, and co-authors who are contributors may only edit posts if they have not been published (as is core behavior).
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6. WP Biographia
This plugin allows you to add a customisable biography to posts, to RSS feeds, to pages, to archives and to each post on your blog’s landing page as well as via a widget in your sidebar. It integrates out of the box with the information that can be provided in each user’s profile and supports custom post types. Display of the Biography Box can be hidden on a global or per user basis for posts, pages and custom post types as well as on a per category basis.
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7. Fanciest Author Bio
Fanciest Author Box is the best author bio plugin for WordPress. Its long list of features gives identity to your single or multi-author WordPress blog. Social widgets allow you to present authors in a more personal manner and are ideal for guest bloggers.
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8. WP Author Box
Author Box Plugin for WordPress that provides full control over your author profile box or agent box. This plugin gives identity to your single or multi-author WordPress blogs by adding author information below each posts, pages and/or post types that’s displayed beautifully via responsive tabs. Increase your author’s followers by adding social icons that can be easily accessed below the user profile and custom avatar image.
A very useful WordPress profile plugin that can be easily customised to match your current and favourite themes. Increase user engagement by adding unlimited custom tabs with custom content, recent post types entries and even contact form supports.
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9. Easy Author
Easy Author is a plugin that is useful for people who have a blog that has guest bloggers and authors they want to acknowledge. It comes with easy to use author data and author box. The author data can be garbed with WordPress shortcodes or PHP.
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10. Ultimate Author Box
This is all in one WordPress author box plugin which comes with numerous features which you are looking in a single plugin. This plugin includes 16+ pre designed author box templates, social media feeds, custom tabs, author posts, author summary in popup display, set role restrictions for author box, unlimited color schemes and much more.
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