Let’s create a list of blog authors dynamic widget and a full HTML capable authors pages. We’ll use 2 plugins to make it.
To create a list of blog authors I found a very good Author Avatars List plugin, which can be set up to display author’s gravatar + author’s details as a list. That’s what I wanted.
Excellent! Only one drawback: our blog authors put a lot of text in their user details, and there is no way to cut it with more tag or anything…
On plugin’s support site I didn’t found any option to trim this text to some limit.
Default WordPress functionality will create an Author page when you add user info in admin. But all HTML tags put there will be removed. And nothing can be done with this text length.
Then I found another magnificent plugin named Big Bio Box which actually creates second fully editable text box for user details page. This second box is not interacting in any way with the first default WordPress box of user details. Now the first box will be our excerpt for user info. Some short text. This default box short text to be used for avatars list and optionally for authors info in posts module.
But for author’s page we now have a full featured reach text, where even pictures can be inserted.
