[theme-reviewers] Use of author bio box

[Konstantin Kovshenin]

It just extends the post meta section, not content-critical, built with wp
apis, 100% user facing. I agree that this is not plugin territory if done
right. Trimming is also okay imho, just like changing the excerpt length in
archives.

On Monday, September 29, 2014, Sakin Shrestha <info at sakinshrestha.com>
wrote:

> This should be allowed. This doesn't falls under plugin territory.
>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 11:54 PM, Justin Tadlock <justin at justintadlock.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','justin at justintadlock.com');>> wrote:
>
>> Sounds OK to me.
>>
>>
>> On Monday, September 29, 2014, priyanshu mittal <
>> priyanshu.mittal at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','priyanshu.mittal at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>
>>> Some thing is very unusual in the author bio box. Developer only shows
>>> 50 words as the author description and place Read More link just after that
>>> which redirects to his author archive.
>>>
>>> Kindly guide me on this.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 6:41 PM, priyanshu mittal <
>>> priyanshu.mittal at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Cais
>>>>
>>>> Yes the developer  has used all the core functions to get that box.
>>>> Only one thing, he did limit the word count for the author description.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Edward Caissie <
>>>> edward.caissie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Why would this be plugin territory?
>>>>>
>>>>> That sound much more like design aesthetics and author prerogative to
>>>>> have that standard information displayed, especially as you noted they are
>>>>> using WordPress core functionality to do it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Edward Caissie
>>>>> aka Cais.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 8:49 AM, priyanshu mittal <
>>>>> priyanshu.mittal at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Recently I am reviewing a theme, the developer  has used the author
>>>>>> bio in single view of each post.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My point is , is it comes under plugin territory, even if the user
>>>>>> creates that box through WordPress core functions calls like get_the_author_meta
>>>>>> etc etc
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>> Priyanshu
>>>>>>
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Konstantin
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