Make your Author Page Looks Professional with Author+ Plugin

Author+ is a premium wordpress plugin that will turns your author archive pages into feature rich content. If you manage many authors on your site, it’s a useful plugin that will give more exposure to your top authors.

Author+ Plugin Review

This plugin will adds to your profile page an extended “Author Bio”. And allows users to add more information. It has three main features which are unique to Author+ :

  1. Give Your Authors A Boost and Exposure Using Extended Author Bios
  2. Easily Create Goggle Rich Snippets – Increase Clickthroughs from Search Engines To Your Blog!
  3. Reward Regular Contributors With “Top Author” Pages

Download the Plugin here | $25

How to install

After you bought the plugin, you’ll get a .zip file. Please extract the plugin and you’ll found a folder and a documentation page. Please upload the folder “authorplus” to your “wp-plugins” folder. Or you can create the .zip file for folder “authorplus” and go to your WordPress Dashboard, visits “Plugins” > “Add New” > “Upload” and upload the zip file.
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Then go to Plugins > Installed Plugins and activate “Author+ Premium”.

How to use

Once you have activated the plugin, you will see a new menu called “Author+” inside “Settings” menu – click this and you’ll find the Author+ options page.
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And the authors will see the extended profile fields at the bottom of their profile page.
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But before you see the feature of this plugin working on your site, first you must have or create your own author.php page, you can learn here how to create an authors page by WPMods.

Then you can manually edit your author.php template by insert the code below and the extended author bio and their social media links will be shown.

<?php
$curauth = wp_authorplus_get_user_on_author_page();
?>
<h2 class="title"><?php echo $curauth->display_name; ?></h2>
<div style="float:right; padding:10px;"><?php echo get_avatar($curauth-
>user_email, 80); ?></div><?php wp_authorplus_extended_author_bio($curauth-
>ID); ?>
<h3>On Social Networks</h3>
<ul>
<?php wp_authorplus_meta_data($curauth->ID, "twitter") ?>
<?php wp_authorplus_meta_data($curauth->ID, "googleplus") ?>
<?php wp_authorplus_meta_data($curauth->ID, "facebook") ?>
</ul>

Conclusion

I think this plugin will be very useful if you manage a multi authors blog/website, the plugin feature will give more exposure to your authors with feature rich content author page, the authors also can insert their more bio with ease. One missing feature is, that you must manually edit your author.php template to use the plugin, but Author+ come with good documentation page file, so you shouldn’t have any difficulties implementing it.

Stay tune! Next we’ll create a beginners guide: how to create your author page from scratch with how to optimize the feature from this plugin to your author page.

Download the Plugin here | $25

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