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How To Display All Authors Bios On Your Site

If you are running a multiple author blog with many guest posts you may want to display a page with the biographies of all the contributing authors on your site.

Authors List Example

Authorsure allows you to do this with a shortcode: authorsure_authors

Here is it in action below:

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Choosing What Authors To Include

You can decide which authors appear in the listing by editing their profile and updating the Author Bio Settings.

Screenshot of adding author to the authors list

Removing Author Box For This Page

You probably want to remove any author box at the foot of this page for the current author since it appears in the list anyway. To do this, tick the checkbox in AuthorSure Settings on the Edit Page

Screenshot of hiding the Author Box

Other Short Codes

authorsure_author_box

This short code adds the author box for the current author at the location specified. It is intended for use on single post and archive pages.

authorsure_author_profiles

This short code adds the author profile links for the current author at the location specified. It is intended for use on the author pages.

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Comments

  1. Sreejesh says:
    December 9, 2012 at 7:18 pm

    Thanks, but is there any way to make the links in the author bio nofollow? Because I allow guest posting in my blog, guest users add too many links in the author bio to get dofollow, I can’t keep track of all of them. So please add a feature to make all links in the author bio nofollow.

    Thanks
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    • Russell says:
      December 11, 2012 at 12:07 am

      Hi Sreejesh,

      Many thanks for the suggestion!

      In AuthorSure version 1.1 I have added a filter so all links in the bios (both the short bio and the extended bio) are made rel=nofollow.

      Regards

      Russell

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      • Sreejesh says:
        December 11, 2012 at 8:43 am

        Thanks Russell,

        That was so quick, I updated the plugin and it works brilliantly.

        Cheers,
        Sreejesh
        Sreejesh recently posted..Amazing images of the “Black Marble” view of the Earth at night released by NASAMy Profile

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      • Sam says:
        March 12, 2013 at 6:48 pm

        Hello Russell,

        Thanks for the great plugin. I’d pay for a premium version, but since you don’t seem to be offering one I used your Donate button instead.

        Unfortunately, I believe your update changed all the links on the Author profile page to nofollow, including internal links. My preference would be to make all links on the author page follow, both internal and external.

        I would be glad to pay for this custom work, please let me know.

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        • Russell says:
          March 12, 2013 at 7:16 pm

          Hi Sam,

          Thanks for your comments.

          I realised that making the link nofollow was too prescriptive so I added an option to choose about a couple of weeks ago but did not get round to publishing release 1.5.

          Screenshot of Author page options

          I will release AuthorSure 1.5 which later today.

          If you would like to support the plugin then please submit a 5 star review at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/authorsure/

          Regards

          Russell

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          • Russell says:
            March 12, 2013 at 7:48 pm

            Hi Sam,

            The option to make the links follow is actually in AuthorSure 1.4 which was released on 29th January. Please make sure you have the latest version

            Regards

            Russell

          • Sam says:
            March 13, 2013 at 3:52 pm

            Hey there Russell, WordPress.org review submitted.

            I was on 1.4 and just upgraded to 1.5, but unfortunately that doesn’t seem to have corrected the issue at all. I have the ‘nofollow’ box unchecked, but all links (internal and external) are nofollow. Here are two separate blogs experiencing the same problem:
            http://bit.ly/Z1X7xA
            http://bit.ly/ZKxsKW
            The first is on 1.4, the second on 1.5

            Any ideas?

          • Russell says:
            March 13, 2013 at 6:40 pm

            Hi Sam,

            I viewed the HTML source of http://modularhomeowners.com/author/sarah-kelly/ are there are NO nofollow links on the page

            There are 8 rel=”nofollow” links on http://www.thetruckersreport.com/author/edwardgreen/ but these are nothing to do with AuthorSure. The nofollow links exists on a hidden “icon” menu. Your CSS is.

            #icon_nav {
            overflow: auto;
            display: none;
            }

            When displayed it looks like this:

            Annotated Screenshot of Author page

            The nofollow of the links can be done in the menu settings or directly by your theme.

          • Sam says:
            March 18, 2013 at 8:15 pm

            I found the problem, which was on my end. The links themselves weren’t nofollow, it was a page level nofollow in the robots meta tag. I’m using the Thesis theme, and unless you go to the Thesis>Site Options>Robots Meta Tags and change the settings, author pages are nofollow by default. Or at least that was the case on both my sites. Anyway, just leaving this here in case others make the same mistake. Thanks to Russell for the quick support.

  2. Ravin says:
    January 15, 2013 at 1:10 pm

    Our website blog is wordpress. reboot.co.in/blog. Main page on website has google+ mark up but blog page does not contain google+ publisher mark up. Could it be the the reason that author profile is not showing up even after 10 days.?

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  3. Amir says:
    March 1, 2013 at 10:41 pm

    Hi Russel & Liz,

    We installed authorsure and populated our About Us page with a list of our lead journalists, however, their images and respective biography summaries are not flush in the same row as per the example you posted on this page. The Gravatars appear above each bio summary. Is there a way to correct this and, moreover, add the social media icons. Here is the page in question: http://bit.ly/YEPKc6

    Thank you!

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    • Russell says:
      March 2, 2013 at 12:26 am

      Hi Amir,

      When inspecting the source code of your page I see a break character between the avatar image and the title of the author (About Ahmed Hussein). The problem of the extra space was fixed in 1.2 in January so I guess you may be running version 1.1?

      Please update your site AuthorSure 1.4.

      Also the AuthorSure CSS is not appearing in your minified file on the About page. On investigation this is actually a bug in AuthorSure. The CSS file is only included if you are using the Author Box method (and your site is using the byline method), it is an Author Archive page, or it is the About page and you are using the ‘menu’ method.

      The line of code that needs to run is

      wp_enqueue_style( AUTHORSURE, AUTHORSURE_PLUGIN_URL.'authorsure.css',array(),AUTHORSURE_VERSION);

      For reasons of performance and efficiency I do not want to load the authorsure.css on every page automatically, especially if it is not being used. Therefore, I will add to the AuthorSure Settings box on the Edit Page/Post page and have a checkbox – include AuthorSure CSS

      I will add this feature in the next release which will be in a few days time.

      Regards

      Russell

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