“Ultimate Author Box” Documentation by “AccessPress Themes” v1.0.0


“Ultimate Author Box”

Created: 3/7/2017
By: AccessPress Themes
Email: support@accesspressthemes.com

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Table of Contents

  1. Installing Instructions
  2. General Settings
  3. Profile Settings
  4. Using Shortcode

A) Installing Instructions - top

  1. Unzip umtilate-author-box.zip
  2. Upload all the files to the /wp-content/plugins/ultimat-author-box
  3. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
  4. For customizing the plugin's settings, click on Ultimat Author Box option menu in Wordpress left admin menu.
  5. To display the author box in the frontend,please use [ultimate_author_box] shortcode wherever necessary.

Once you have successfully installed the plugin, check on the left admin panel for Ultimate Author Box. Clicking on it will lead you to the Author Box General Settings.


B) General Settings - top

General Settings

In General Setting, you can control where and how Author Box appears in the frontend.

Permission Settings

In Permission Settings, you can select which Registered User Roles can have access to the Author Box settings in their Profile Page (Dashboard-> Users-> Your Profile). Some User roles may not have a Profile Page by default; in such cases the author box for those users cannot be set.

Please check WordPress Roles and Capabilities https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities to check your User accessibility.

Twitter Feeds Settings

For convenience and since Twitter allows this, we have made this feature so that the Admin can set a Twitter App once and other users can show their twitter feed by just using their Username. If you are a not the admin and your twitter feed do not work, please contact your site admin to confirm that they have set the Twitter App.

Steps to configure Twitter:

Layout Settings

Set how your Author Box appears in the frontend.

Custom Settings

If you have selected Select Template as Custom Template, you can choose from a set of the pre-available templates and choose to modify its, primary, secondary and tertiary color and background image according to the Template. All custom options may not appear in all templates.

Save Changes

Click on save changes to save your settings.

Restore Default Settings

  Revert all setting to its initial installed settings. The Default Settings are:
Option Status
Disable Ultimate Author Box False
Choose place to show Author Box Post/Page/Custom Post Type
Show Author Box at Bottom of Posts
Hide Author Box if Author Biographical Info is empty False
Show Default Biographical Info if empty True
Frontend link target options New Page
Permission Settings All Enabled
Consumer Key (API Key) NULL
Consumer Secret (API Secret) NULL
Access Token NULL
Access Token Secret NULL
Cache Period 1
Select Template Template 1
Enable Custom CSS Section True
Custom CSS Empty
Go to Profile Settings: Once you are gone with General settings, click on Go to Profile Settings to begin editing your individual User Profiles.

B) Profile Settings - top

Profile Settings

After setting your General Settings, the next thing is the Profile Settings. To set your Profile settings go to Dashboard-> Users-> Your Profile.

If you are the admin, you can go to Dashboard-> Users-> All Users-> Select a User and choose to edit any of your User profile.

The default user information such as Display name publicly as, Email, Website, Biographical Info, Profile Picture(Gravatar Image) provided by WordPress will be used by the plugin as name, email, website, description and default image. For additional settings you can configure Ultimate Author Box Profile Settings.

If you are not the admin and you do not have Ultimate Author Box Profile Settings, please contact your admin and ask them to enable Ultimate Author Box Profile Settings in your profile page. (If you are the admin, check Permission Settings).

If you have the Ultimate Author Box Profile Settings you should see an Author Details Tab there. This is a Default tab and cannot be deleted.

Author Details tab:

Adding a New Tab

You can click on the + button to add new tab. A pop-up should appear with Select Tab type where you can select a variation on 9 tabs. And Tab name. The Tab name you assign will also be the Tab header of your backend as well as your frontend. There is no option to edit this header. So, if you need to change the header label you will have to delete the tab and create a new one.

You can programmatically add unlimited number of tabs and repetitive tabs but design wise we recommend you to use at most 5 tabs. There are 3 types of tabs. These include Default tabs, Feed tabs and Custom Tabs. Default tabs include a Author post list tab, Company detail description tab, a contact form tab. The Feed tab includes Twitter Feed, Facebook Feed and RSS feed. Custom Tab includes Shortcode and WYSIWYG Editor.

Default tab

Author Posts

Company Description

Contact form

The plugin allow you to add contact form as one of the tabs. You can use a default contact form provided by the plugin or use a Shortcode to add external Contact form.

Feeds

The Author Box Plugin can fetch Twitter feeds, Facebook feeds and RSS feeds.

Twitter Feeds

To use the Twitter feeds simply put your Twitter Username and Number of Feeds. Contact your Admin to know if they have set up Twitter application or not.

RSS Feeds

Facebook Feeds

To set the Facebook Feeds you need to follow the following steps. Set the APP ID, APP secret and set the Number of feeds. After this you will need to Save the Page. If you have set APP ID and APP secret properly, you should see the Fetch Facebook Feeds. Click on it to fetch new Facebook feeds. If you successfully fetch the feed a message should appear “Facebook Feeds Fetched Successfully!”. Save the page again to save the new posts.

Custom Tabs

Shortcode tab

In this tab you can place your Shortcode and it will appear in the frontend. The tab name fields will appear as the tab title in the frontend.

WYSIWYG Editor

Use the CK editor to place custom content into your tab. The tab name fields will appear as the tab title in the frontend.

Widgets Tab

You can add one widget per tab. Click on Select Widget. Select a Widget. Click on Edit to edit the Widget settings. Click on save to save the widget settings. Click on Update profile file to save the settings.

Profile Customizer

Click on the Profile Customize to add individual theme to your author profile. Click on Enable Personal Template to enable your Personal Template. Select one of the many Default Templates or Select Custom Template. If you select Custom Template, select one of the Default Template and choose the Primary, Secondary, Tertiary color or Background image.

Widgets

The Author box plugin comes with two different plugins.

Page Meta Settings

If you check your Post Editor you should be able to see the Ultimate Author Box Options meta box. You can use this to disable Author box per post and choose a position to place the Author Box in that Post.

E) Using Shortcode - top

You can use Shortcode to place the Author box between posts or page.

Shortcode structure

Basic Structure

[ultimate_author_box]

Shortcode with parameters

You can pass two parameters to the Shortcode, user_id and template.

[ultimate_author_box user_id="1" template='uab-template-1']

You cannot use custom template with shortcode.


Please visit https://accesspressthemes.com/documentation/ultimate-author-box/ for more detail documentation.