Description

An author's biography is a crucial element of any blog, news site, or magazine. However, Joomla lacks native comprehensive management for this feature. Users must often resort to modifying core files or overriding views and templates, changes that are notoriously difficult to maintain across system updates.

Crusco Author Bio Box integrates seamlessly with Joomla's user management allowing you to manage author biographies, also in multiple languages, and display professional author biography boxes for your website articles. It builds trust with your readers and enhances your site's E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness) by showcasing the people behind the content.

Main Features

SEO & Author Backlinks

A great opportunity for authors and guest bloggers to get quality backlinks. You can choose which authors can take advantage of this by enabling additional SEO/Accessibility options, such as DoFollow links.

Schema.org JSON-LD Support

It automatically integrates the author's information (photo, bio, job title, social media links, etc.) into the article's schema to help search engines correctly attribute content and recognize author authority.

It supports structured data generated by:
- Joomla's Schema.org
- Google Structured Data by Tassos.

Micro-Context for AI/LLM

Includes Agentic Web Design hidden directives specifically designed to help Large Language Models and AI crawlers better understand the author’s expertise and professional context.

Full Multilingual Support

Seamlessly handles author biographies in different languages, a core requirement for international Joomla websites.

Styled Social Media Icons

Supports 28 social media networks (Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Instagram, GitHub, etc.) directly from user profile settings. You can standardize the color of social icons to best suit your website design.

Front-end Profile Editing

Authors can update their biography, image, job title, social links, etc. directly from the Joomla front-end user profile page, without needing backend access.

Flexible Placement

Beyond automatic insertion before or after content, use shortcodes or the dedicated module to display author bios anywhere in your template.

Built-in Templates

You can choose the structure from 7 presets and change the options (color, border, header, etc.).

Unique Custom Template System

A developer-friendly system that allows you to create custom templates by overriding the presets or inserting new ones with the simple use of HTML and CSS.

Category Management

Easily select which categories should display the author box.

Why choose Crusco Author Bio Box?

The extension is built for the modern web. It focuses on technical SEO, AI-readiness and developer flexibility, ensuring your authors' authority is recognized by both human readers and search engine algorithms.

Explore all features and in-depth guides in our official documentation.

Translations

The Extension is translated into the following languages:

• Italian
• English
• German
• Spanish
• French
• Russian
• Chinese

Changelog

1.5.0 changes

• Added a dedicated plugin to integrate Author Bio data in the knowledge graph gerated by the Google Structured Data extension by Tassos. Thanks @Rollmodl
• Now the Author Bio JSON-LD integration support these schema.org types: Article, BlogPosting, NewsArticle, TechArticle, Book, Recipe.

1.4.0 changes

• Added dedicated Schemaorg plugin to converts author's biography box information into JSON-LD structured data to enrich the articles' Knowledge Graph
• Added AI Crawler section: enables Micro-Context for LLM (used in Agentic Web Design) to help scraping language models (LLMs) identify the author bio as an E-E-A-T source

1.3.2 changes

• Fixed author bio box display issues in content plugin for T4-based templates.

1.3.1 changes

• Fixed an issue when the Joomla “System - Language Filter” plugin is disabled.

1.2.0 changes

• Added Joomla! 6 compatibility
• Fixed issues with loading some translated texts

1.1.0 changes

• Added option to also display the category author in blog and list layouts.
• Changed some translation strings.
• Improved code for author biography box rendering.

1.0.1 changes

• New social media added: ArtStation, Mastodon, Substack.