=== Simple Author Box === Contributors: machothemes Tags: author box, responsive author box, author profile fields, author social icons, profile fields, author bio, author description, author profile, user profile, post author, rtl author box Requires at least: 3.6 Tested up to: 4.8 Stable tag: 1.9 License: GPLv2 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Adds a cool responsive author box with social icons on your posts. == Description == **Simple Author Box** adds a responsive author box at the end of your posts, showing the author name, author gravatar and author description. It also adds over 30 social profile fields on WordPress user profile screen, allowing to display the author social icons. = Main Features = * Shows author gravatar, name, website, description and social icons * Fully customizable to match your theme design (style, color, size and text options) * Nice looking on desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile phones * Automatically insert the author box at the end of your post * Option to manually insert the author box on your template file (single.php or author.php) * Simple Author Box has RTL support **About us:** We are a young team of WordPress aficionados who love building WordPress plugins & <a href="https://www.machothemes.com/" rel="friend" target="_blank" title="Premium WordPress themes">Premium WordPress themes</a> over on our theme shop. We’re also blogging and wish to help our users find the best <a rel="friend" href="https://www.machothemes.com/blog/cheap-wordpress-hosting/" target="_blank" title="Cheap WordPress Hosting">Cheap WordPress hosting</a> & the best <a href="https://www.machothemes.com/blog/best-free-wordpress-bootstrap-themes/" title="Bootstrap WordPress themes" target="_blank" rel="friend">Bootstrap WordPress Themes</a>. == Installation == 1. Download the plugin (.zip file) on your hard drive. 2. Unzip the zip file contents. 3. Upload the `simple-author-box` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory. 4. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress. 5. A new sub menu item `Simple Author Box` will appear in your main Settings menu. == Screenshots == 1. Simple Author Box - Colored icons - squares 2. Simple Author Box - Colored icons - circles 3. Simple Author Box - Grey icons - author square 4. Simple Author Box - Grey icons - author circle 5. Simple Author Box - White icons - grey background 6. Simple Author Box - White icons - blue background 7. Simple Author Box - RTL view 1 8. Simple Author Box - RTL view 2 9. Simple Author Box - Sample 2 10. Simple Author Box - Sample 1 11. Simple Author Box - Responsive view 1 12. Simple Author Box - Responsive view 2 13. Simple Author Box - Responsive view 3 14. Plugin options page, simple view (v1.2) == Changelog == = 1.9 = * Removed lang folder, translations are now being handled by GlotPress on w.org * Fixed a CSS bug ( https://github.com/MachoThemes/simple-author-box/issues/11 ) * Removed ShortPixel Banner ( https://github.com/MachoThemes/simple-author-box/issues/8 ) * Minor UI reworks. The plugin's CSS was overwriting a lot of WordPress Core UI styling * Removed RTL CSS stylesheets as they weren't being properly handled. Will re-add them at a later date, after the new UI will be released * Updated the URL that was loading FontAwesome Icons from 4.1 -> 4.7 ( https://github.com/MachoThemes/simple-author-box/issues/9 ) * Fixed oEmbed bug on front-end ( https://github.com/MachoThemes/simple-author-box/issues/2 ) * Added MixCloud Icon ( https://github.com/MachoThemes/simple-author-box/issues/3 ) * Added GoodReads Icon ( https://github.com/MachoThemes/simple-author-box/issues/6 ) = 1.8 = * Changed plugin authorship = 1.7 = * Fixed a small CSS issue. * Added a recommendation for an image optimization plugin - ShortPixel = 1.6 = * Fixed a small CSS issue. = 1.5 = * Added XING network social profile field & icon. = 1.4 = * Fixed the code snippet provided for manually insert the author box. Thanks to [@mazter3000](http://wordpress.org/support/profile/mazter3000) for the [bug report](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-insert-code-to-php?replies=7#post-5886931). * Fixed a line-height issue on author name link. = 1.3 = * Fixed a line-height issue on author description text and other small css fixes. = 1.2 = * Added author website option, fully configurable. * Added the ability to manually insert the author box on author.php or archive.php. * Added two more conditionals to load plugin CSS when need it. * Fixed some visual appearance of admin options in Google Chrome. * Updated translation with the new strings. = 1.1 = * Removed AIM, Yahoo, and Jabber Fields from the WordPress Profile Page. = 1.0 = * Initial release