[theme-reviewers] Use of author bio box

[priyanshu mittal]

Thanks all , that made my point clear.

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Just agreeing with everyone else (again) ... and it's not uncommon do trim
> the content of that "meta box" as well.
> I do it in my personal favorite "Opus Primus" (http://opusprimus.com/),
> although I keep the "biography" intentionally shorter than the limit as I
> have other plans to implement/integrate into that code still ... but that
> value is also filtered just in case the end-user wants their limit to be
> longer (*grin*)
>
> Making suggestions to the theme author on things you think might improve
> or provide a better look or "functionality" is always a nice thing to do as
> well ... just remember if making suggestions they are clearly noted as such.
>
> Edward Caissie
> aka Cais.
>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Konstantin Kovshenin <kovshenin at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> 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> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sounds OK to me.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, September 29, 2014, priyanshu mittal <
>>>> 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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