[Nifemi AParticipant]

Is it possible to change the settings in the “About the Author” shortcode, so that the Author’s name is clickable and links to a designated Author’s page (e.g linking to the user’s buddypress profile)?

Also when I include the author’s website, it does not show up it the “About The Author” box. Is there something I have to change to fix that?

Thanks,

Nifemi

[ChristianModerator]

Hey Nifemi,

That is not currently possible with the Author shortcode and implementing those functions requested would be outside the scope of our support as plugin modification is required. We’ll however take note of this as feature request and might implement it in a future release.

Thank you for understanding.

[Kailas EParticipant]

Dear Support,

Thanks for the tip and you guys are doing a great job however…

Authors are the backbone of an magazine and author pages are pretty important. Ethos is great in so many areas and there’s a reason you guys are doing so well but lacking support for authors is an uncharacteristic oversight. I imagine your experts contribute to blogs and love it when their rep is given a boost by readers taking a deeper interest in their knowledge (and web owners love it if they can do that without leaving their site!)

Surely there is a way to use visual composer to create a page template (save as template option) that displays text in the top area (a fuller bio) and then shows the recent posts listed by author=id (same as category does) below.

The code for making author’s name clickable is pretty standard (though I haven’t been able to make this work with ethos to date) and you’d think it’d be easy enough to change a clickable author=id (to go to author index results page) to a set page=id (i.e. the author bio page).

You guys are pretty great please help us out,

🙂

Kailas

[Nifemi AParticipant]

Support, thanks for the response.

I agree with Kailas above, I assumed there would be an easy solution to making the author name clickable. It will be great if you could add this as a request feature for future releases. For now, any suggestions as to an alternative will be very helpful.

Thanks

Nifemi

[ChristianModerator]

Hey guys,

Yes, we’ve added this in our feature request list so we might include this in a future release.

Thank you for your detailed feedback.

[Kailas EParticipant]

Thanks heaps!
😀

[SupportMember]

No worries, cheers.

[LuzParticipant]

Thanks X team! I totally agree with Kalia’s and Nifemi’s request. Styling author shortcode would be also great.

I’ll be waiting for X future release then, hopefully the next one. 🙂

Thanks again. Greetings from Argentina.

[ChristopherModerator]

Hi Tangauta,

Noted your interest for the feature request. Thank you for your contribution.

[KoullaParticipant]

Hi! What’s the status of this? We’d reeeealllly love to have a website listed in there somewhere.

[RadModerator]

Hi Koulla,

Unfortunately, we don’t have any news about this yet. But rest assured that this one is already on our list 🙂

Thanks!

[BearzenParticipant]

BUMP!
Need an author bio at the bottom of each post and page (via custom field). I haven’t found how to do this yet but on so many other themes it is simple.
X is so freaking amazing for so many things but…this.
Thank you for the most amazing theme I have ever worked with…but…can’t wait for a few extra bits 🙂

[ChristopherModerator]

Hi there,

Because this requires a template change, I’d advise that you setup a child theme. This allows you to make code changes that won’t be overwritten when an X update is released. After your child theme is setup, please review how we recommend making template changes in Customization Best Practices.

Please add this in functions.php file located inside child theme folder :

function the_content_with_author_box( $content ){

    if( is_single() || is_page() ){
        $content .= do_shortcode( '[author title="About author"]' ); 

    }

    return $content;
}

add_filter( 'the_content', 'the_content_with_author_box', 11, 1 );

Hope it helps.

[Author]

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