Title: Multiple authors
Last modified: May 30, 2018

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# Multiple authors

 *  [fifthhouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fifthhouse/)
 * (@fifthhouse)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/long-term-solution/)
 * I am developing a new wordpress site that has multiple authors. Eventually within
   two or three years the site will also include bbpress discussion forums.
 * This is a question about long term development.
 * My current challenge is that I want to display a nice bio box for site authors,
   and I’m trying to decide if I should add a bio box plugin, or if I should just
   install bbpress now, and use that function for the biobox.
 * I want to do what’s the simplest and the best for site seo over the long term.
   I like to keep the site free of plugins as much as possible to maintain clean
   code.
 * I’d appreciate thoughts or suggestions people might have.

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/long-term-solution/#post-10342091)
 * Which bio box do you like better? If bbPress, go ahead and install it now. You
   can suppress any links to forums until you’re ready to use them while using its
   bio box feature.
 * If you like an independent bio plugin better, use it. Continue to use it even
   with bbPress. I can relate to the desire to limit plugins, but if the plugin 
   provides important useful functionality, it’s worth making an exception to the
   no plugins rule.
 * You could also build your own bio box plugin, which could also contain any other
   custom code you develop. A single custom code plugin can replace any number of
   other plugins without incurring much of the overhead that’s often part of many
   plugins. Of course, some things are not worth custom coding because an existing
   plugin does something really well.
 *  [robertlee16](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robertlee16/)
 * (@robertlee16)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/long-term-solution/#post-10342381)
 * You can either create a customed plugin or add functions to your function.php
   file and also on the frontend, if you want to do social media tags.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [robertlee16](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robertlee16/)
 * Last activity: [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/long-term-solution/#post-10342381)
 * Status: not resolved

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