Multilingual biographies in Joomla with Crusco Author Bio Box

Details: Updated on 04 November 2025

Crusco Author Bio Box introduces a feature in Joomla that allows you to insert and display author biography within articles, in any position of the template or wherever you want to show them... even here below. 😉

Stanley S. Goldner

Video Game Developer

Stanleygames
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Stanley S. Goldner is a renowned video game developer, known for his innovative and creative approach to the industry. His talent has led him to collaborate with big names in the industry. He is passionate about interactive storytelling and emerging technology.

The links to websites, emails, and social media accounts in the example biography above are fictitious, so don't be surprised if they lead to pages that don't exist. The avatar used is © Designed by Freepik

Let's start adding bio

Expands the user profile

No additional components are installed.

The new fields are grouped into a new tab "Author Biography" within Joomla's user management.

This prevents overloading the system and streamlines the management of user and author fields.

Biography in multiple languages

The extension allows you to enter a biography for each language installed on your Joomla site and define a fallback to be displayed if a specific one hasn't been entered for each language.

Ideal for websites with multilingual content.

The biography can be written in all installed languages

Editing also from the front end

Do you want to prevent article authors from accessing the administrator area?

By enabling this option, you will allow them to manage their biography on the front-end page of their user profile.

Custom image

Allow authors to upload the image they prefer without compromising the appearance of your website.
If the image exceeds the maximum dimensions you have specified, it will be automatically resized.

The most popular formats are supported: PNG, JPEG, SVG and WEBP.

Two rounding methods

Would you like to display the authors' images in a round frame?

You can do this, and choose between two rounding methods: Containing or Cropping.

Picture rounding methods: Contains, Cropping

16 placeholders for the image

The placeholder is the image that appears if the author has not uploaded a custom photo.

If you want to avoid biographies that have photos and others that don't, then the placeholder is your savior...

... and in the color you want

The uniformity of the colors used on your website reinforces your brand identity.

Choose your preferred color for the image placeholder.
You can do this for user profiles, articles, and modules.

Spambots? No, thank you!

Decide whether and how to display the author's email contact link... but always securely.

Thanks to a cloaking technique, you will make life difficult for spambots that roam the web collecting email addresses.

Decide who can do more

The author biography box is a good opportunity for authors to get quality backlinks to their website.

Choose which authors can take advantage of this opportunity by enabling additional SEO/Accessibility options for them, such as DoFollow links.

Option to enable SEO and Accessibility properties for selected users groups

Social media

Authors can include links to their social media pages.
These are the ones currently supported:

ArtStation, Blogger, Deviantart, Discord, Facebook, GitHub, GitLab, Instagram, LinkedIn, Mastodon, Medium, Pinterest, QQ, Quora, Reddit, Snapchat, Stack Exchange, Substack, Telegram, Threads, TikTok, Vimeo, VK, Weibo, Weixin, WhatsApp, X, YouTube.

Need another social network? Let us know!

Choose your social media color

Do you need clear icons on a dark background?

No problem!
You can standardize the color of social icons by choosing the color that best suits your website.

Place the biography anywhere

You can choose which categories to display it for, whether before or after the article content, or within the article itself, wherever you want, using the shortcode.

If you need to display it outside the article, you can use the module to make it appear anywhere on your website.

Choose a template... or create your own!

Decide on the graphic design of the author's biography box.

You can choose the structure from 7 presets and change the options (color, border, header, etc.) or create custom templates by overriding the presets or inserting new ones with the simple use of HTML and CSS.