Switch off Author Biography on Article page

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It is not possible to switch off Author Biography on Article page for now.

However, you can hide the Author Biography field on the article page in different ways.

Method 1
It can be made invisible by adding the following code to the css file.

.item.author_bios {
display: none;
}
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Metod 2
You can remove the relevant field by deleting the following code on the article_details.tpl page.
/templates/frontend/objects/article_details.tpl
you can delete the Author Biography field from the templates file.
/templates/frontend/objects/article_details.tpl

{* Author biographies *}
			{assign var="hasBiographies" value=0}
			{foreach from=$publication->getData('authors') item=author}
				{if $author->getLocalizedData('biography')}
					{assign var="hasBiographies" value=$hasBiographies+1}
				{/if}
			{/foreach}
			{if $hasBiographies}
				<section class="item author_bios">
					<h2 class="label">
						{if $hasBiographies > 1}
							{translate key="submission.authorBiographies"}
						{else}
							{translate key="submission.authorBiography"}
						{/if}
					</h2>
					{foreach from=$publication->getData('authors') item=author}
						{if $author->getLocalizedData('biography')}
							<section class="sub_item">
								<h3 class="label">
									{if $author->getLocalizedData('affiliation')}
										{capture assign="authorName"}{$author->getFullName()|escape}{/capture}
										{capture assign="authorAffiliation"}<span class="affiliation">{$author->getLocalizedData('affiliation')|escape}</span>{/capture}
										{translate key="submission.authorWithAffiliation" name=$authorName affiliation=$authorAffiliation}
									{else}
										{$author->getFullName()|escape}
									{/if}
								</h3>
								<div class="value">
									{$author->getLocalizedData('biography')|strip_unsafe_html}
								</div>
							</section>
						{/if}
					{/foreach}
				</section>
			{/if}
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