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A few weeks ago, I wrote a review for the Fancier Author Box WordPress Plugin which is a free plugin that creates an enhanced author box at the end of each post. Overall, it’s a great plugin but its limited in features. If you are looking for more design tools and other features to make your author box more useful, then you need to check out the Fancier Author Box by ThematoSoup. 
Fanciest Author Box
The Fanciest Author Box is a premium author bio box plugin that easy to custom and add your social networks to your bio box. It even creates a tab for each social network so your readers cane easily add you to their networks.
Fanciest Author Box Features
- Widgets
- Shortcodes
- Template tags
- Translation ready
- Customizable color scheme using color pickers
- Random author option for widgets
- Automatically added before/after (or both!) on your posts, pages and custom post types
- Option to show it in your RSS feeds
Widgets for Major Social Networks
- Latest tweet, Twitter Bio
- Facebook likes & subscribe
- Google+ add to circles button & rel=author verification (read FAQ section) <—very important feature
- LinkedIn widget
- Custom HTML tab
Final Thoughts
This is a great plugin. Its has all the right social network widget tabs and you can even change the color scheme to match your website but still keep the look and feel of the great looking bio box.
But what I really like is the ability to add rel=author verification that google wants to see on your website and articles on your site. (I will talk about why rel=author verification is so important.)
If you want to add the Fanciest Author Box to your website, then can pick up this plugin from Code Canyon for only $10!
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James,
Thanks for doing a review of our Fanciest Author Box.
If there’s any feature you or your readers think it’s missing, but should be there, don’t hesitate do suggest us on either social networks, through our website or right here in the comments section.
Cheers
Lots of people google my name to get to my websites so I want the articles on my site to come up when people google my name. Will an author box help with this or am i better off just adding the info at the end of each article?
Hi,
Yes, Fanciest Author Box will get you a Google verified author status. All you need to do is link back to your blog from your Google+ account.
You can read all about it here http://thematosoup.com/tips/google-verified-authorship-wordpress-blog/
An author box will not help your readers find your articles via the search engine. The author/bio bio box is designed to give your readers a little information about the author writing the article bio by giving a brief bio and image of the author.
Most WordPress themes have a built in bio box that you canturn under the admin panel >> user >>> user name. There should be a check box you can select to activate the bio box. If you don’t have one, you will have to create one or use a plugin.
This particular bio box has extra features designed to keep your readers even longer on your site (bounce rate is bad) by creating a tab feature that shows your latest posts. It even has tabs setup to show your social media profiles. Check out the demo – http://codecanyon.net/item/fanciest-author-box/full_screen_preview/2504522?ref=element3211 . It can help get better search results giving you a Google verified author status. All you need to do is link back to your blog from your Google+ account. All these features and more included this great plugin. But you still need to have SEO plugins on your site to help with SEO.
To get better results in the search engine, you need to use SEO plugins and using good SEO practices. I would recommend using WordPress SEO Plugin by Yoast (free) and premium plugins such as Keyword winner or Scribe SEO. I will be doing a current SEO (search engine optimization) article very soon so check back often or subscribe to our RSS feed.