Title: Function reference?
Last modified: April 19, 2018

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# Function reference?

 *  Resolved [oabrahim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oabrahim/)
 * (@oabrahim)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/function-reference-3/)
 * Hi,
 *  Where can I find a function reference for your plugin? I wanted to use parts
   of it in a customization. For example, if I wanted to get the bio field content,
   etc. I’m looking for something like what Custom About Author has caa_get_author_bio(
   $username).
 *  I checked Development –> Browse the Code, but I didn’t find anything particularly
   helpful.
 *  Please let me know. Thank you.

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 *  [Macho Themes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/machothemes/)
 * (@machothemes)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/function-reference-3/#post-10198788)
 * [@oabrahim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oabrahim/) – all our plugin’s
   code is hosted on GitHub, here: [https://github.com/MachoThemes/simple-author-box](https://github.com/MachoThemes/simple-author-box).
 * The front-end rendering template is here: [https://github.com/MachoThemes/simple-author-box/blob/master/template/template-sab.php](https://github.com/MachoThemes/simple-author-box/blob/master/template/template-sab.php)
 * Our plugin isn’t using wrapper functions as we’re relying on WordPress Core functionality
   to do all our heavy lifting for us 🙂 Basically, there’s no need to provide wrapper
   function as long as the functionality is already there.
 * Here’s the function used by us to show the user description: [https://github.com/MachoThemes/simple-author-box/blob/master/template/template-sab.php#L52](https://github.com/MachoThemes/simple-author-box/blob/master/template/template-sab.php#L52)
 * And here is where we’re setting the `$saboxuser_id` variable which might be a
   little bit hard to find: [https://github.com/MachoThemes/simple-author-box/blob/2b1794692b2e69ce5aecda4625e9ed9991e7f334/inc/functions.php#L26](https://github.com/MachoThemes/simple-author-box/blob/2b1794692b2e69ce5aecda4625e9ed9991e7f334/inc/functions.php#L26)
 * Please let me know if you need further help with anything else.
 * P.S: Here’s how to get the user description with WordPress Core code:
 * `
    echo wpautop( get_the_author_meta( 'description' ) );
 * You can read more on this WordPress function, here: [https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_the_author_meta/](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_the_author_meta/)
 * Thanks,
    Cristian.
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by [Macho Themes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/machothemes/).
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by [Macho Themes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/machothemes/).
      Reason: added signature
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by [Macho Themes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/machothemes/).

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 * Last reply from: [Macho Themes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/machothemes/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/function-reference-3/#post-10198788)
 * Status: resolved