Author Profile Plus

Adds useful custom fields to your WordPress user profiles, allowing in depth user profiles to appear below the posts in your WordPress theme. Give your contributors the attention and credit they deserve with a featured biography and links to their social channels.

Features

• Easy to setup in just 2 simple steps.
• Seamlessly integrate author profiles throughout your WordPress website
• Supports multiple authors

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1. Upload the author-profile-plus folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

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   Example of author profile fields in the back end

How do I use the plugin?

1. Install the plugin
2. Navigate to any user profile in the back end and fill out the Author Profile Plus fields
3. User Profiles should now appear below any post, or wherever the_content() is called
4. Alternatively, you can us the [author-profile] shortcode in your templates to display the author profiles wherever you like. Optionally, you can also pass in an ID, like so [author-profile id=”5″]

0.8.2

• Added the option to select which post types Author Profile Plus piggybacks on to

0.8.1

• Fixed bug causing the plugin to disappear from the list of active plugins when active

0.8

• Initial pre-release