Review: Author Box WP Lens – an Author Bio Plugin for WordPress

Victor Duse

Jan 10, 2025

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In this article, I will review a free WordPress plugin for WordPress that is available at the WordPress plugin repository: the Author Box WP Lens plugin.

I think you probably already know what this plugin does. Or, you can at least guess it from its name. It adds an author box to your WordPress website.

Note: This plugin was originally called Author Box for Divi and was released back in 2020.

Getting started

When you install and activate this plugin, it will add an author box at the bottom of your WordPress blog posts, pages, media, or any other post type (you can configure these options). It works with the default WordPress posts made with the default WordPress editor as well and works with other themes and page builders too, not just with the Divi theme or the Divi Builder plugin.

How it works

The displayed author box will include your Gravatar icon as your profile picture. Or, you can change it to a different image by pasting a URL of a different image in Users » Profile section of the WordPress admin panel. Here you will also find options to enter all your social profiles URLs. Only those that you enter will show in the author box.

Other features of this plugin include:

  • Name Prefix: You can choose the text to display before your name For example, I usually choose “Author”
  • Text Color: Choose the color of the text in the author box
  • Background Color: The background color of the author box I leave this blank
  • Border Color: The color of the border of the author box
  • Border Radius: If you don’t like a square author box, you can add a border radius to the author box border
  • Disable On: You can disable the author box on certain WordPress post types For example, you can make them show on blog posts only
  • Exclude Categories: You can also exclude certain categories where you do not want the author box to show
  • 45+ Social Media Icons
  • Custom Color for the Social Media Icons
  • Email & Website Icon
  • Author Box Preview in the WordPress Dashboard

Premium version

This plugin has a premium version too. You can learn more about it on a separate website, wplens.com.

The premium features include, for example, multiple authors, guest authors, font control, Gutenberg block, widgets, shortcode, and much more customization options.

Preview

Below you can see the default look of the author box and the plugin’s settings in the WordPress admin panel.

Backend

Author Box WP Lens backend preview

 

Frontend

Author Box WP Lens frontend preview

Finally, I should also note that the text that will be displayed in your author box will be the text that you enter into the Biographical Info field in your WP admin panel profile settings (Users » Profile). You can also include a hyperlink HTML code into it and you will then have an author box bio with a link (that could go, for example, to your About page).

Summary

Overall, I can say that this is a really smart lightweight plugin. I hope many of you will find it helpful.

Author Box WP Lens plugin
Victor Duse

By Victor Duse

Victor is a Swedish WordPress expert with +20 years experience of web development and marketing communications. Time away from keyboard is spent together with family and on Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu mats.

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