Fanciest Author Box
Fanciest Author Box
Fanciest Author Box is a WordPress plugin developed by ThematoSoup. Its long list of features gives identity to your single or multi-author WordPress blog. Social widgets allow you to present authors in a more personal manner and are ideal for guest bloggers.
If your business relies on content marketing you should install Fanciest Author Box to:
Improve your blog
Make connections & enable reader engagement
Highlight your articles in search engine result pages
Increase conversions and click-through rates
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note: Fanciest Author Box is not compatible with BuddyPress.
This premium author bio plugin is very easy to use and customize. Right after installation the author bio is, by default, enabled on all your posts, pages and custom post types. You can disable the author box where you don’t want it or implement it manually using:
Widget
Template tag
Shortcode
Technical Info
| Created | Updated | High Resolution | Compatible Browsers | Files | Software Version |
| 15 June 12 | 26 March 15 | Yes | IE10, IE11, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome | JavaScript JS, CSS, PHP | WordPress 4.2, WordPress 4.1, WordPress 4.0, WordPress 3.9, WordPress 3.8, WordPress 3.7, WordPress 3.6, WordPress 3.5, WordPress 3.4 |
Features
The plugin has quite a few under the hood features:
- Google Authorship verification, here’s how to enable it
- Retina ready
- Translation ready, just follow this guide
- Color pickers, to set your own color scheme
- Random author option for widgets
- Automatically added before, after (or both) your posts, pages and custom post types (not on archive pages)
- RSS feed author box
- Lazy load for improved page speed
- Co-Authors Plus plugin compatibility
Widgets
Fanciest Author Box allows readers to learn about authors and connect with them on all major social networks:
- Bio tab
- Twitter Bio & Latest Tweet
- Facebook Like & Follow
- Google Authorship & Google+ add to circles button
- LinkedIn Widget
- YouTube Subscribe Widget
- Pinterest Widget
- Latest Posts tab
- Custom HTML tab
Change Log
Huge thanks to all of you who suggested improvements and made the plugin even better.
v2.0.9 (3/25/2015)
Adds nofollow to G+ link, since Google Authorship is dead
v2.0.8 (9/5/2014)
Removes custom update notifier (caused false notices)
CSS fixes
v2.0.7 (8/20/2014)
Fixes Google authorship bug
v2.0.6 (6/13/2014)
Fixes LinkedIn tab bug when switching from LinkedIn to Google+ back to LinkedIn again
v2.0.5 (5/29/2014)
Improved Co-Authors Plus compatibility, latest posts tab now includes co-authored posts
v2.0.4 (5/27/2014)
Performance optimization, improves speed when some popular/related posts plugins are used
v2.0.3 (5/6/2014)
Fixes a multi-shortcode JavaScript bug
v2.0.2 (4/22/2014)
Fixes difference between custom tab allowed tags in user vs. global options
Improved default color settings
Fixes Facebook and LinkedIn widgets not being loaded in second author box
Lazy load for improved page speed
v2 (4/17/2014)
Retina Ready – Uses Genericons in tabs
Pinterest widget
YouTube widget
CSS updates + New default skin
Improves method that adds author box to posts/pages automatically
v1.8 (3/13/2014)
Adds update notifier
Moves Settings page to Settings > Fanciest Author Box
Adds Co-Author Plus support for multi-author posts
Adds filter hooks (ts_fab_load_css, ts_fab_load_js) that allows developers to disable CSS and JS from being loaded. If hooking into these hooks, you need to return false
Adds CSS that hides author box added by several popular themes
Changes list of allowed tags in Custom Tab to default WordPress allowed tags (like the ones used in comments)
Skips expensive user queries in widget code if blog has more than 200 users
v1.7.1 (3/12/2014)
Updated Google+ widget (more compact, no duplicate photo)
Updated LinkedIn widget (more compact, no duplicate photo, details appear on mouseover)
Updated LinkedIn field, full profile URL can now also be used
v1.7 (3/3/2014)
Fixes https error in LinkedIn member profile
Adds filter (‘ts_fab_social_field’) that allows you to modify which user meta fields are used for social tabs – Read more
v1.6 (1/14/2014)
Not loading JS and CSS when not necessary
CSS fixes
note: If you’re using template tag to add Fanciest Author Box, since version 1.6 you need to include Fanciest Author Box JavaScript and CSS files manually. Read more at Fanciest Author Box documentation.
v1.5 (6/22/2013)
Updated Twitter API (refer to Fanciest Author Box > Tabs Settings to learn how to enable Twitter tab)
v1.4.7 (6/12/2013)
Bug fix, where authors who opted not to show their author box were still shown in Fanciest Author Box widget
v1.4.6 (6/9/2013)
Option to display author avatar above text in the author box (Avatar position: Floated left, Above text)
Shortcode attribute avatar=”above” that places avatar above text
Minor CSS fixes
v1.4.4 (4/5/2013)
User count check added to FAB widget, so sites with huge number of users don’t cause it to break
CSS updates
v1.4.3 (1/17/2013)
Facebook Widget fix
v1.4.2 (1/10/2013)
Minor bug fixes
v1.4.1 (1/5/2013)
Fixed Facebook widget not showing in Firefox
v1.4 (11/20/2012)
Bug fixes
Added option to manually change execution priority where Fanciest Author Box wouldn’t display, because of possible conflicts with other plugins
v1.3.3 (10/16/2012)
Improved Twitter caching
v1.3.2 (10/13/2012)
Updated Twitter API
v1.3.1 (10/9/2012)
Minor bug fixes
v1.3 (08/26/2012)
Added LinkedIn tab with Member Profile Plugin
Added option to show icons only in tabs
User profile fields now not shown for Subscribers
Switched Facebook widgets from iframe to HTML5 – improves performance
Added name linked to Facebook profile for Subscribe widget
Improved custom tab, allowing admin to make it possible for users to override custom tab content only or both title and content (Thanks to Kimberly Castleberry)
Added RTL support (credit: Metude)
Added random author option to widget (credit: Indie-Film Moonworks)
Added Latvian translation (Thanks to Klavs Petersons)
Added simplified author box to RSS feeds (credit: Katie Orr)
v1.2.1 (08/13/2012)
Improved Twitter fallback, when Twitter API returns nothing
Fixed bug that caused javascript conflict when multiple shotcodes or template tags were used on the same page
v1.2 (07/05/2012)
Bug fix – overridden photo (via uploader) was showing only in bio tab
Added “+FirstName LastName” heading with rel=author to Google tab for author verification
Added custom HTML tab. Thanks to http://codecanyon.net/user/oakland
v1.1 (06/18/2012)
Added option to disable Fanciest Author Box for individual posts, pages and custom posts using ‘ts_fab_hide’ custom field. Credit goes to http://codecanyon.net/user/stscorer
Added Photo URL field to user profiles, if it has value, that URL will be used to override Gravatar image, if left empty Gravatar will be used. Suggested by http://codecanyon.net/user/candidhams
Added option to choose between Subscribe (for profiles) and Like (for pages) Facebook button. Thanks http://codecanyon.net/user/Suicide
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