Adds a short author bio after every single post on your blog. Also, enables HTML formatting tags in author description and adds Facebook, Twitter, Goo …
As of April 2026, Advanced Author Bio is a WordPress author plugin with 20 active installations and a 4/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 12K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 13 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Edit Author Slug.
Advanced Author Bio automatically adds a short author bio box along with gravatar and social profile links in every single post of your blog. That isn’t all, it also:
Enables the HTML formatting in author description field
Adds Facebook profile field in author profile setup page
Adds Google+ profile field in author profile setup page
Adds Twitter profile field in author profile setup page
Adds LinkedIn profile field in author profile setup page
Adds Pinterest, YouTube, Flickr and StumbleUpon field in author profile setup page (Plugin Version 3.0 onwards)
Shows the Social Profile link only if the field is populated. (Added on version 2.0, thanks to viwickam)
Shows the Website if any Hompage URL is set at profile. (Added on version 2.0)
Highly customizable author bio…
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.4.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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