[Resolved] Adding Bio to author page and adjustments

[Dominic]

Hi,

I’m a bit lost here.

– How do I add the user bio above the blog content?

What shortcode do I use to do this and what element should I add?
Got this already running form all archives

– How can I get rid of the “nothing to be found” message when the author has no posts yet (we still want to display the bio

– Where can I set the hero image for each individual author page?

thank you for the help

[David]

Hi there,

Add this PHP Snippet to your site:

add_shortcode( 'author_bio', function() {
    ob_start();

    echo wp_kses( get_the_author_meta( 'description' ), null );

    return ob_get_clean();
} );

https://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-php/

Then you can add this shortcode: [author_bio]

WordPress doesn’t support featured images for users.
You would have to use CSS to set each authors hero background like so:

.author-dominic-heselmans .page-hero {
    background-image: url('url_for_author/image.jpg');
}

[Dominic]

Hi David,

Thank you very much for the feedback.

I’m not 100% sure where to add the shortcode [author_bio] ?

[Leo]

If you want it to show above the blog post content then generate_before_content should work:
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/hooks-visual-guide/#single-post

Let me know 🙂

[Dominic]

thank you 🙂

[Leo]

No problem 🙂

[Author]

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