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The Post Author Biography block allows you to embed a user’s biography from the About Yourself section in Users > Profile into your page or post.

In order to add a Post Author Biography block, click on the Block Inserter (+) icon.

You can also type and hit in a new paragraph block to add one quickly

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A wordpress plugin aiming to provide a timeline-like user biography - users may add biographical parts over time which may then be displayed on the user's page in a timeline.

In , create a new folder and put all files within this repository in this folder. In the backend, go to "Plugins" -> "Installed Plugins" and activate "User Biography".

After activating the plugin, navigate to "Users" > "Your Profile". Below "About Yourself" you will find an additional section "Biography":

The form allows to add so-called "Parts" to your biography.

In order to query these parts in your template, query for posts with type .

Copyright (C) 2014 - 2015 David Stutz

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

Display user bio on user page

Hi,

1. Kindly add the following code to the bottom of your theme’s functions.php file,

function display_user_bio( $atts ) {    
    $user_slug = acadp_get_user_slug();
    if ( $user_slug ) {
        $user = get_user_by( ‘login’, $user_slug );
        if ( $user ) {
            echo get_the_author_meta( ‘description’, $user->ID );
        }
    }
}
add_shortcode( ‘user_bio’, ‘display_user_bio’ );

2. Then, edit and open the “User Listings” page from your “WordPress Admin Dashboard => Pages” menu and add the shortcode [user_bio] above the existing shortcode on the page.
3. Save the changes and check now.

Hope this helped you!

Thanks

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