<div id="sidebar">
<ul id="sidelist">
<li id="abouttext">
<h2>Services:</h2> <?php
function print_profile() {
global $wp_query, $blogownerid;
global $wpdb, $blog_id;
$blogownerid = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT post_author FROM wp_" . $blog_id . "_posts");
$userdata = get_userdata($blogownerid);
if ($userdata->description != '') {
echo substr($userdata->description, 0, 180); }
}
echo print_profile(); ?>
<div id="hire"><a href="http://boonika.net/contact/hire/" target="_blank">Hire <?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></div>
</li>
<?php /* Widgetized sidebar, if you have the plugin installed. */
if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</ul><!--END SIDELIST-->
</div><!--END SIDEBAR-->
This is how sidebar for new created blogs looks like. I adjusted it to pull 'Biographical Info' which you can edit inside 'Edit User' area. Just like you can see here on my portfolio: http://marko.boonika.net/
After to 2.8.6 upgrade it wont show that info for newly created blogs: http://illustr8a.boonika.net/
But, as you can see on my portfolio, old blogs stayed untouched.