[Resolved] Editing info in author box

[Christopher]

Hi,

I’ve used suggestions in previous help threads to show an author box at the end of my posts. It’s pulling both the picture and the bio from Gravatar.

Basically I want to know how I can edit the bio itself instead of pulling it from Gravatar as I want to add some links to other platforms eg LinkdIn, social media handles etc at the bottom of/under the bio?

Or alternatively keep the Gravatar bio and add a line of code to include the weblinks?

I’m using both Hook & Css

Hook:

<div class="author-box">
	<?php 
	
	global $post;
	
	?>
	
	<div class="avatar"><?php echo get_avatar ( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' )); ?></div>
 
        <h5 class="author-title"><?php printf( esc_attr__( 'About %s', 'the author' ), get_the_author_meta( 'display_name') );?></h5>
	
				<div class="author-summary">
	
        <p class="author-description"><?php echo nl2br( get_the_author_meta( 'description' ), null ); ?></p>
 
    </div>
 
</div>

CSS:

.author-box {
    display: -webkit-box;
    display: -ms-flexbox;
    display: flex;
    -ms-flex-wrap: wrap;
        flex-wrap: wrap;
    padding: 4%;
    margin-top: 60px;
    font-size: 0.8em;
}

.author-links a {
    font-size: 3em;
    line-height: 0.5em;
    float: right;
}

.author-box .avatar {
    width: 30px;
    border-radius: 100%;
    margin-right: 20px;
}

h5.author-title {
    margin-bottom: 0.5em;
}

[David]

Hi there,

that code gets the description from the Biography field in the Users page.
WP doesn’t provide support for things like Social Links by default – so that would need to be coded in.

The best method to achieve that today is to use a plugin like Simple Author Box:

https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-author-box/

It provides the fields for the user links etc and outputs them as part of the author box.

[Christopher]

Thanks

[David]

You’re welcome

[Christopher]

Sorry, follow up question!

I’ve used your suggestion and installed the simple author box plugin.

Under the bio/author box it shows a link to another article I’ve written on the site (only written 2 so far).

Is it possible to get rid of links to other articles by the same author? It doesn’t seem to be a plugin option so I’m wondering if I can do it in generatepress?

Thanks

[Leo]

GeneratePress doesn’t have any options to modify the content from Simple Author Box.

I would recommend checking with their support team first 🙂

[Christopher]

Thanks; I thought it might have been auto generated by GP or easily taken out via customizer or css.

[Christopher]

In case anyone looks in the future:

-Simple Author Box couldn’t help.

-The fix was Customizer> Layout> Blog>Content > Single > Untick “Display post navigation”

[Leo]

Ahh sorry I misunderstood what you are referring to.

Glad you’ve figured out 🙂

[Author]

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