UHNW,

If I am not mistaken, the author box that you are refering to is a bit different that the subject of this post.  What Dana was originally discussing was getting an author box on a personal blog like the author box that appears for the POSTS on yakezie.com, not here in the forums.  The box that you are refering to is actually called a "Forum Signature" and that can be added by clicking on your username (uhnw, which will take you to your Forum Profile page) and then click the link that says "Edit Profile Record" at the bottom of that page.  Once in the editor, there is a tab (the tab on the far right) that says "Setup your Signature" which will give you what you are looking for.  Hope that helps,

Chris

I tried doing what you said, but I can't seem to find the "Edit Profile Record" link on my profile page. The page I am taken to when clicking on my name is: http://yakezie.com/wordpress/w.....rofile.php  Am I on the right page?

Thank you!

~Amanda

Frugal Confessions

If I am not mistaken, the author box that you are refering to is a bit different that the subject of this post.  What Dana was originally discussing was getting an author box on a personal blog like the author box that appears for the POSTS on yakezie.com, not here in the forums.  The box that you are refering to is actually called a "Forum Signature" and that can be added by clicking on your username (uhnw, which will take you to your Forum Profile page) and then click the link that says "Edit Profile Record" at the bottom of that page.  Once in the editor, there is a tab (the tab on the far right) that says "Setup your Signature" which will give you what you are looking for.  Hope that helps,

Chris

Hope my code can help someone else out there.

Hey, Dana.  Yakezie's author box is also not a plugin, but an extension of Wordpress's built in functionality.  If you do not have Thesis (or a thesis based theme, Yakezie is not based on Thesis) than you might need to dig a little bit into the code of your theme to add a box.  To display, the different bits of information stored for the author of a post, use the "get_the_author_meta()" function, completely discussed here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Fun.....uthor_meta

If you have no interest in editing your Wordpress theme, check out the "Author Box Reloaded" plugin (never used it, but I think it will do what you want) or "Cool Author Box" (also never used it either; it appears that the first choice is more widely adopted).  Of course, I am not sure how much control either of these plugins with give you as far as color and style go, so they may not match your theme.  If you really want something that matches your site, and you cannot or do not want to edit your theme code, you may want to consider hiring someone to take care of this for you.  It would probably take about 1 hour to do this (perhaps up to 2, depending on how much back and forth you have with this person) for an experienced Wordpress Developer.

Hope this helps!

P.S. If you would like, I can send you or post here the PHP code that we use for Yakezie's author box if you would like something for reference.  It will require some CSS work as well, which I can post with it.

Hi Dana,

I have an author box at the bottom of each of my posts, but it's not a plugin.  Elle from Couple Money showed me how to add some code right into my Thesis theme to make it work.  Here's a link that explains how to do it:

http://samswebguide.com/2010/0.....hesis-1-6/

It was actually pretty simple, but if you run into problems I can help walk you though it.

Mike

http://codex.wordpress.org/Fun.....uthor_meta

If you have no interest in editing your Wordpress theme, check out the "Author Box Reloaded" plugin (never used it, but I think it will do what you want) or "Cool Author Box" (also never used it either; it appears that the first choice is more widely adopted).  Of course, I am not sure how much control either of these plugins with give you as far as color and style go, so they may not match your theme.  If you really want something that matches your site, and you cannot or do not want to edit your theme code, you may want to consider hiring someone to take care of this for you.  It would probably take about 1 hour to do this (perhaps up to 2, depending on how much back and forth you have with this person) for an experienced Wordpress Developer.

Hope this helps!

P.S. If you would like, I can send you or post here the PHP code that we use for Yakezie's author box if you would like something for reference.  It will require some CSS work as well, which I can post with it.

I have an author box at the bottom of each of my posts, but it's not a plugin.  Elle from Couple Money showed me how to add some code right into my Thesis theme to make it work.  Here's a link that explains how to do it:

http://samswebguide.com/2010/0.....hesis-1-6/

It was actually pretty simple, but if you run into problems I can help walk you though it.

Mike

I'm looking for a wordpress plugin to add an author bio box to the bottom of posts.  Recommendations anyone?   

Dana