[Steven Zahm]

@ Nick S

re: Can you explain what exactly the enable_bio and enable_bio_head means?
First, I must say; I’m not sure why one would want to use these considering the design focus of the template…

First, these only have any effect when the entry is open. It does not disable the excerpt of the bio when the entry is closed.

• enable_bio: Default is true which will show the full bio text. Setting to false will disable the bio text and the “Biography” header text if enable_bio_head is true.
• enable_bio_head: Default is false. It will display the value for str_bio_head which defaults to “Biography”.

re: Is there any way to not show the bio until after the user clicks “Read More”? Or will the bio always show on page load?
No, that’s kind of the whole design focus for the Excerpt Plus template, to show an excerpt of the bio. The excerpt will be roughly the first 55 words. It may be a little longer because the code behind creating the excerpt will try not to split a sentence. The number of words can be adjusted with the excerpt_length option. Setting excerpt_length to 0 disables creating the excerpt (I think, its been awhile) and setting it to p should create an excerpt using the first paragraph of the bio field.

re: I see Name, Title, and Bio shows up on page load without needing to click “Read More”. Are there other fields I can have display before clicking “Read More”? for example, could I have the Organization appear above the “Read More” link? Or is there no way to change that?
There is no way to change that with shortcodes, for that you would have to edit the template PHP files. This can be done by creating a custom template override file.

Hope that helps.