I have to thank The Lady Programmer for sending me this article about how to add an Author Bio box inside your wordpress single.php so that you can display the author’s profile and information inside every post. The article on Line25.com is How to create an author info section in wordpress and shows detailed steps and provides the php code you can cut and paste to easily add an author box inside your wordpress articles. The post is very well written and I used it to create my own author bio box now that I am opening DragonBlogger.com up to guest posters.
I went a step further and also found an article on Justin Tadlock’s site on How to Add Custom User Profile Field in WordPress this combined with the previous site gave me enough information to not only add an Author Bio box, but to add a twitter profile field so that you can add the user’s twitter profile and easily link back to it from inside the Author box. I don’t know how to program PHP, but I am very good at figuring things out and manipulating what is there to make it work for me. As a result I was easily able to tweak the code from the articles and show “# of Posts” next to authors name, and add a “Follow Author on Twitter” with a link to their twitter profile inside the bio box.
What do you think of my Author Bio Box for my posts, does it contain enough information and look aesthetically pleasing?
-Dragon Blogger
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February 4th, 2010 at 7:57 am
I love it! A lot better than mine. I was trying to alter mine the other day, but seeing as how I can’t even remember how I got it on there, I think I’m pretty much toast lol.
But yours looks great!
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February 4th, 2010 at 10:57 am
Thank you, took some tweaking but I am persistent.
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February 4th, 2010 at 10:20 am
Great tip, however I am a little green about it. What is a bio box?
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February 4th, 2010 at 10:57 am
Look at the bottom of this post where it shows my “Author Bio” it is basically a box that shows the wordpress account’s description and whatever other information you want to display. This is most useful for blogs that have multiple contributor accounts setup and posting.
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February 4th, 2010 at 10:41 am
Great post. Thanks for sharing. I was researching how to add this information without having to use a plugin for it. When I get some time, I plan on getting this up and running.
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February 4th, 2010 at 10:56 am
You are quite welcome, glad you found the article useful.
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February 4th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
I like your author box, it is simple but clear. And thanks to sharing how to create it, i think i need it in my blog.
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February 4th, 2010 at 11:33 pm
Thank you, I like it as well. Stands out without being too obnoxious in my opinion.
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February 4th, 2010 at 2:44 pm
I’ve considered doing something similar, but since it’s just me writing, I don’t know if it’s worth putting it in
Maybe if/when guest writers sometime stops by it will be a very good idea.
What was the reasons for you adding it, since you’re also the only writer here (mostly?), I believe?
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February 4th, 2010 at 11:34 pm
I am opening DragonBlogger.com up to guest authors, I already had my first guest contributor Jakk Ogden from TechnologyBlogged, and will be expecting more in the future. Are you interested in having a contributor account created?
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February 4th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
I’ve seen these all over, especially on blogs using Thesis Theme. I have one on my site, but it’s not as intuitive. Thanks for doing the research and sharing. I plan to try this out. Fingers crossed I don’t screw anything up.
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February 4th, 2010 at 9:43 pm
Its really useful to put a bio box on multi author blogs!
thanks for the info mate 
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February 4th, 2010 at 11:42 pm
Thank you for reading it and glad you found it helpful.
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February 5th, 2010 at 1:53 am
I agree. This post has been very useful to me. It saved me a lot of time and effort. More power to your site Dragon Blogger! Thank you for sharing us your knowledge and info’s!
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February 5th, 2010 at 5:19 am
This is the first time I am hearing about this and it is pretty cool. I would surely include it in my blog which I am going to start in sometime.
Either one could include this at the top of the webpage or after each posts.
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February 5th, 2010 at 5:50 pm
Oh man, very very very cool. I’ve been meaning forever to ask several bloggers how they do that, thanks!
Can you tell how you did the RSS subscription box also?
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February 5th, 2010 at 8:18 pm
Absolutely, I will write a post about that for this weekend for you. Look for it probably on Sunday the 7th.
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February 5th, 2010 at 11:05 pm
thanks for you and laddy programmer who sends this secret of how to author bio box inside wordpress post. This is helpful for all readers of your posts. good job done ..congrats
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February 6th, 2010 at 4:20 am
You know, I’ve seen this around and have tried adding the code into the right file but have never been successful with it. In fact my blog went down for several hours because of this and I had to go in via FTP just to replace the original code and bring things back.
Any suggestions?
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February 6th, 2010 at 11:49 am
Watch for php tags that open but aren’t closed. Make sure you put the code in the right spot, before the ending tag
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February 6th, 2010 at 5:30 am
I’ve now got this on my blog, had some problems adding twitter though, but I found a plugin that lets me add the extra field to the users account and then add a snippet to the code I edited in my comments.php file.
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February 6th, 2010 at 11:49 am
Hmm, Didn’t find a plug-in that gives you extra fields, that is pretty cool though.
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February 7th, 2010 at 9:15 am
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February 7th, 2010 at 5:17 pm
Thanks! I commented but got this after submitting… HTTP – 500 Internal Server Error
The page you are attempting to load returned an error.
Not the first time either…
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February 7th, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Nevermind, I think I figured it out.
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February 7th, 2010 at 5:49 pm
These three comments came through, did you find what is causing the 500 errors?
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February 8th, 2010 at 2:50 pm
I think so. I replied to the email.
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February 7th, 2010 at 8:46 pm
Wow I looked a the create your own author bio box in every page article, and it just amazes me what you can do to manipulate things if you know basic coding.
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March 14th, 2010 at 7:50 am
Would you be willing to write up some very simple instructions, like “take X and paste it into Y, in this location”, etc.?
I’d love to create a box on my own, but I always get lost around “Adding the WordPress Template Tags.” I simply don’t know where any of that stuff goes.
Your info box fits the style of your site well, btw.
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March 14th, 2010 at 8:28 am
Everyone’s Theme is different so the parts that customize need to be tweaked to suit your own theme, also the sites I reference have those step by step instructions. Rather than write them down and repeat them on my site, I am encouraging others to read those posts. If you still have trouble after reading those posts, I will write something more clear.
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March 14th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
Perhaps I’m having a mental block. I’ve read them several times, but I’m missing where to put the lines of php. I’m new to this. I’ll give it another shot. Thanks.
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March 14th, 2010 at 4:37 pm
The Write out the HTML part goes in the Single.php and/or index.php if you want it on single posts or homepage for articles as well. The CSS part goes in your styles.css and the custom field in profile from the other post for adding twitter to your wordpress profile goes in your functions.php (that part is optional and you can just use the article on Line25 to create the author bio box).
March 17th, 2010 at 6:54 am
I’m thinkin’ I’ll just hand this off to my designer. lol
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March 17th, 2010 at 6:35 pm
Yup and Dennis did hand it off to his designer. This is an awesome script. Easy to setup and modify for the site. I haven’t tried all the optional items, but will give it a go the next go round.
Thanks for the information, glad Dennis linked me over here. I will definetly puruse your other posts.
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March 19th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
Optional items? Might I have more to look forward to dear designer??
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May 25th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
I’ve plan to open my blog to guest author but still confuse with this author bio, I can’t find plugin for author bio with number of post, any suggestion bro?
Thanks
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May 26th, 2010 at 8:06 am
This wasn’t a plug-in, I wrote it manually.
Use this PHP statement to show number of articles the “author” wrote: \< ?php the_author_posts(); ?\>
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July 10th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
yeah.. it was really a good addon for blog owners and thanks for providing the code.. indeed very useful tip..!
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