RuffRuff Author Profiles

What is RuffRuff Author Profiles?

Learn what the app can do, which pages it supports, and how it is displayed.

RuffRuff Author Profiles is a Shopify app that displays author profiles on blog posts, products, and pages. You can set an author name, profile image, job title, description, and more, then show them on your online store. People who are not registered as Shopify staff accounts can still be displayed as authors.

You can do the following.

  • Display an author profile on blog posts

  • On the Regular plan, display an author profile on products or pages

  • Change the profile colors, layout, and image display

  • Set an author name, profile image, job title, and description for each author

  • On the Light plan and higher, use a link button and description formatting

The pages you can display and the required plans are as follows.

Page

Required plan

Blog posts

Every plan

Products

Regular plan

Pages

Regular plan

Prerequisite: Use an Online Store 2.0 theme that can add app blocks.

Limitation: Author profiles cannot be displayed on templates other than the three above, such as the home page, collections, blog listing, or search results.

There are two ways to display author profiles: app blocks and app embeds. Use an app block on an Online Store 2.0 theme.

To choose an app embed for a vintage theme, see App Block vs. App Embed.

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