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Individual Multisite Author

by Thomas Maier

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Description

When running WordPress Multisites to maintain various top level domains or a multilingual version of your site you might probably run into the problem of having the same author description / biography on each of them.

This is unfortunate not only on multilingual sites.

Long story short, this plugin enables you to enter the author biography for each user on a per-blog basis.

You don’t have to do anything, but to install and activate the plugin and to enter the author bio into through the dashboard(s) of your site(s).

Please visit the github repository on https://github.com/webzunft/multisite-individual-author if you want to contribute, post a specific feature request or bug report.

Some things site admins and developers might want to know:

  • the plugin only works when multisite support is enabled
  • the biography is saved using a custom profile field for each blog with the pattern ‘ima_description_BLOGID’, e.g. img_description_3
  • the filter get_the_author_description is used to load the “right” description; this is used by the_author_meta() and get_the_author_meta() functions
  1. Upload the folder individual-multisite-author to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the IMA through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

You will now see an additional field for the author description when you visit the author profile.
This field is individual for each blog, so make sure you first login to the right dashboard when changing the authors bio for a specific site in your multisite environment.

Works perfectly

By Micha Krapp (mfgmicha) on March 27, 2025

Just installed this plugin on the multisite for our customer and it easily works.

Does its job perfectly

By shawfactor on September 26, 2021

Unfortunately so many plugins are a mess because they try to do everything and don´t follow standards. As such I have had to write literally 100s for my own needs, some of which I have releaed in thsi repository. So it is refeshing when I find a plugin like this that does only one thing, does its well,a and does so without taking over wp-admin in some way. Great work

Great Plugin, Simple and Effective

By Renaat (rsioncke) on May 24, 2020

This is a simple and effective plugin, great for my WordPress multisite network. Allowing the authors to display custom author bio for each subsite. Wonderful. Thanks.

Works great!

By m4nson on April 1, 2020

Just what I needed, works perfectly!

Great - more people should use!

By Duuk on May 2, 2019

Great - more people should use!

Simple and clean Plugin

By nicmare on January 31, 2017

Exactly what i need as i have a german and an english blog in my multisite network. I examined the plugin code and it is well written. i can recommend it!

Just what I needed

By Bernhard Kau (Kau-Boy) on September 3, 2016

The code is just as I would have written it myself. Just perfect! 🙂

Works Perfectly. Exactly What I Needed.

By John Morris (jtmorris) on September 3, 2016

I have a personal multisite installation with numerous sites of varying content. Some require stoic professionalism in the bios, some not. Some must emphasize different aspects of the authors. For example, one is a humorous blog, one is a product documentation website.

This plugin makes it easy for all personalities to be displayed on the appropriate site.

1.4.0

  • allow to translate the plugin through wordpress.org, props @2ndkauboy
  • show a warning if the current site is not a multisite, props @2ndkauboy
  • secure user data while allowing some HTML in the description, props @2ndkauboy
  • fix PHP 8.2 deprecation warning, props @2ndkauboy

1.3.1

  • reverted escaping from name and description to allow HTML again

1.3

  • added field for site-specific author name, props to a user
  • escaped name and description when saved to the database

1.2.5

  • added French translation

1.2.4

  • fixed broken textdomain reference, thanks @rwatuny

1.2.3

  • adjust coding to wordpress (extra) standard
  • fix deprecation notice for WP 3.0+ (update_usermeta)
  • minor code ‘optimisation’

1.2.2

  • fixing a bug that prevented the plugin from being loaded completely

1.2.1

  • html tags are now allowed in the bio

1.2.0

  • added textdomain
  • added German translation to test textdomain

1.1.0

(confused commit, please ignore)

1.0.2

  • input field for individual description is now bigger
  • added short description for the plugin
  • use default description if no site specific description is provided.

1.0.1

  • updated files, to fix showing the plugin on wordpress.org

1.0

  • initializing the plugin
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