Author boxes for WordPress content

Starbox Pro adds configurable author boxes to WordPress. A box can appear above or below a post or page, and settings let you enable it on posts, pages, or both. Each author can have an individual theme and placement, with a default theme available. Boxes can also appear on author pages.

Profiles, links, and author details

Profiles can include an author's name, job title, company with a link, and biography formatted in paragraphs. Authors can upload an image instead of using Gravatar. Their boxes can link to their articles and display their latest posts. You can hide boxes for selected authors or remove another author box from a page to prevent duplicates. The feature list also describes compatibility with WooCommerce and other e-commerce plugins.

Each author can have separate clickable links to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Instagram, Flickr, Pinterest, Tumblr, YouTube, and Vimeo. Google and Facebook account details entered in an author profile are used by the listed Google Authorship and Facebook Authorship functions. The technical feature list names HTML5 and Google Microformats, including vCard, for author information.

Configuration and shortcode show

1. Install and activate Starbox in WordPress.
2. Complete author profile details and social accounts.
3. Choose each author's placement and theme, then set whether boxes appear on posts, pages, or both.
4. For manual placement, add a shortcode to a post or widget.

Use [starbox] for the default author box or [starbox id="USER_ID"] to specify an author by username or visitor ID. The shortcode also accepts a custom description and theme, for example [starbox id="login_name" desc="custom description" theme="business"]. To show several authors together, use comma-separated usernames or IDs, such as [starbox id="john,david"] or [starbox id="1,2,3"].